{"id":71880,"date":"2020-07-03T07:02:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T11:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=71880"},"modified":"2020-07-03T07:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T11:02:41","slug":"master-wato-njpws-grand-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/07\/03\/master-wato-njpws-grand-master\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning Master Wato Revealed To Be NJPWs Grand Master"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not long after NJPW made it&#8217;s return we began to see videos hyping up the debut of The Grandmaster.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/06\/15\/the-grand-master-coming-to-njpw-but-who-could-it-be\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speculation immediately swept the fanbase<\/a> with many expecting it to be returning young lion\u00a0<strong>Hirai Kawato\u00a0<\/strong>who had spent his excursion in CMLL.\u00a0 On today&#8217;s New Japan Cup show it was revealed that renamed Master Wato was indeed the grand master.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Master Wato is coming!<\/p>\n<p>A young master&#39;s journey begins!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6M6Zfoz55z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/6M6Zfoz55z<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/njpw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#njpw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/njcup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#njcup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fykLerWCOT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/fykLerWCOT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/njpwglobal\/status\/1279005042754772992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t long before we got some sense of Wato&#8217;s direction going forward as he was attacked by Suzuki Gun member\u00a0<strong>DOUKI\u00a0<\/strong>who is a junior heavyweight, signaling that Wato will be part of NJPW junior heavyweight division.\u00a0 It would appear that Wato&#8217;s debut will be against DOUKI, presumably at <em>Dominion<\/em>.\u00a0 That should serve as a good tune up win for Wato to show off his skills with the heavily Lucha influenced DOUKI.<\/p>\n<p>It is yet unknown what faction Master Wato will find himself in, it&#8217;s likely he joins up with the combined CHAOS\/Taguchi Japan babyface stable.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. Make sure to watch NJPW on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/njpwworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NJPW World<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long after NJPW made it&#8217;s return we began to see videos hyping up the debut of The Grandmaster.\u00a0 Speculation immediately swept the fanbase with many expecting it to be returning young lion\u00a0Hirai Kawato\u00a0who had spent his excursion in CMLL.\u00a0 On today&#8217;s New Japan Cup show it was revealed that renamed Master Wato was indeed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":71882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news","category-njpw"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}