{"id":7631,"date":"2017-09-10T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T15:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=7631"},"modified":"2017-10-02T21:42:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T01:42:11","slug":"kassius-ohno-challenge-non-wwe-world-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/09\/10\/kassius-ohno-challenge-non-wwe-world-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Kassius Ohno to Challenge for Non-WWE World Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Insane Championship Wrestling<\/strong> out of Glasgow, Scotland announced yesterday that NXT Superstar <strong>Kassius Ohno<\/strong> (formerly <strong>Chris Hero<\/strong> on the independent circuit) will be challenging ICW Word Heavyweight Champion <strong>Joe Coffey<\/strong> at ICW&#8217;s event in Newcastle, England on September 17th.<\/p>\n<h1>Kassius Ohno to Challenge for Non-WWE World Title<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Joe_Coffey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Joe_Coffey<\/a> to defend ICW World Title against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KassiusOhno?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@KassiusOhno<\/a> 17\/09 at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/o2academynewc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@o2academynewc<\/a>! TICKETS: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TSNaiG2Kcx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/TSNaiG2Kcx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/InfamousICW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#InfamousICW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jz31bohlWI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Jz31bohlWI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICW (@InsaneChampWres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InsaneChampWres\/status\/906563377996156928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ICW is one of the UK promotions &#8211; <strong>PROGRESS<\/strong> being the other one &#8211; that the WWE has working agreements with, having sent <em><strong>205 Live<\/strong> <\/em>Superstar<strong> Noam Dar<\/strong> to a recent ICW event as well as <strong>Jack Gallagher<\/strong> to the recent PROGRESS event in New York City. ICW is the home promotion of WWE UK Superstar <strong>Wolfgang<\/strong>, as well as the old stomping grounds for WWE Superstars <strong>Drew McIntyre<\/strong>, <strong>Finn Balor<\/strong>, Noam Dar and <strong>Nikki Cross<\/strong>, as well as Mae Young Classic competitors <strong>Kay Lee Ray<\/strong> and<strong> Piper Niven<\/strong> (aka <strong>Viper<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Kassius Ohno returns to the UK independent scene for the first time since last year, although he did make appearances in England for NXT this past June for the Download Festival. His last UK indie appearance was last November, when he challenged <strong>Katsuyori Shibata<\/strong> for the <strong>Revolution Pro<\/strong> British Heavyweight title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insane Championship Wrestling out of Glasgow, Scotland announced yesterday that NXT Superstar Kassius Ohno (formerly Chris Hero on the independent circuit) will be challenging ICW Word Heavyweight Champion Joe Coffey at ICW&#8217;s event in Newcastle, England on September 17th. Kassius Ohno to Challenge for Non-WWE World Title BREAKING: @Joe_Coffey to defend ICW World Title against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":7632,"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":[2,13,5,3],"tags":[284,454,768,388,116,47],"class_list":["post-7631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-chris-hero","tag-icw","tag-joe-coffey","tag-kassius-ohno","tag-nxt","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}