{"id":84849,"date":"2021-02-12T19:58:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T00:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=84849"},"modified":"2021-02-12T19:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T00:58:50","slug":"andnew-seiki-yoshioka-ghc-jr-heavyweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/02\/12\/andnew-seiki-yoshioka-ghc-jr-heavyweight\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Seiki Yoshioka Wins the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Seiki Yoshioka<\/strong> defeated <strong>Daisuke Harada<\/strong> at <strong>Pro Wrestling NOAH\u2019s <em>Destination 2021 Back To Budokan<\/em><\/strong> event to capture the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. This marked the first title change of the historic event as Pro Wrestling NOAH made their epic return to Nippon Budokan. After capturing the championship, Yoshioka was challenged by Daisuke Harada\u2019s tag team partner, <strong>Atsushi Kotoge<\/strong>; he is also the\u00a0former<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>faction mate of Seiki Yoshioka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Seiki Yoshioka came to NOAH one year ago, after the shut down of his former employer <strong>Wrestle-1<\/strong>. He debuted as a member of the <strong>Sugiura Army<\/strong> before leaving to form <strong>Full Throttle<\/strong> along with Atsushi Kotoge and <strong>Hajime Ohara<\/strong>. Yoshioka unsuccessfully challenged for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship last year, losing to <strong>Kotaro Suzuki<\/strong>. He also failed to capture the Junior Tag Team Championship on a few occasions.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Seiki Yoshioka, the new GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion. He has his dream, both he and Mutoh have belts. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LYEVk1kpRM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/LYEVk1kpRM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pro Wrestling Noah\u2019s Arkive \u270d\ufe0f (@Hi5ame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hi5ame\/status\/1360183560251052033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This is Seiki\u2019s first-ever championship in Pro Wrestling NOAH. Furthermore, it marks Full Throttle\u2019s first championship in the group. This is the first championship since the closure of Wrestle-1 for Seiki. Despite for a few months working as a freelancer, he didn\u2019t work other places besides NOAH. He signed a one-year deal with the company during the mid-to-late part of 2020. The future looks to be bright for Seiki Yoshioka. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"s2\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/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. You can watch Pro Wrestling NOAH as well as DDT, TJPW, and more on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ddtpro.com\/universe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0Wrestle Universe.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? Head on over to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/boards\/index.php\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"s2\">LWOS Boards<\/span><\/a> to engage in conversation with fellow fans!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seiki Yoshioka defeated Daisuke Harada at Pro Wrestling NOAH\u2019s Destination 2021 Back To Budokan event to capture the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. This marked the first title change of the historic event as Pro Wrestling NOAH made their epic return to Nippon Budokan. After capturing the championship, Yoshioka was challenged by Daisuke Harada\u2019s tag team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3712,"featured_media":84860,"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":[13,12,24,2192],"tags":[7467,7473,7474],"class_list":["post-84849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news","category-noah","category-wrestling","tag-back-to-budokan","tag-ghc-jr-heavyweight-championship","tag-seiki-yoshioka"],"modified_by":"Robbie Sutter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84849","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\/3712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}