{"id":8840,"date":"2017-10-24T18:14:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T22:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=8840"},"modified":"2017-10-25T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T19:00:38","slug":"joe-doering-wins-triple-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/10\/24\/joe-doering-wins-triple-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Big In Japan: Joe Doering Wins Triple Crown Following Brain Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 21, 2017,\u00a0<strong>Joe Doering<\/strong> captured his 2nd All-Japan Triple Crown &#8211; the top singles title in one of Japan&#8217;s oldest promotions &#8211; at <strong>AJPW Jun Akiyama &amp; Takao Omori 25th Anniversary Show<\/strong> in Yokohama, Japan. A quick scan of Doering&#8217;s pedigree from a decade of competition with <strong>All-Japan<\/strong> makes that seem like something he&#8217;d be used to. After all, he&#8217;s held the belt before and he&#8217;s a 4x AJPW World Tag Team Champion, including one run with the legendary <strong>Keiji Mutoh<\/strong> (aka <strong>The Great Muta<\/strong>). But this victory caps off an amazing comeback year, as Doering returned to the company in January after over a year off recovering from surgery from a brain tumor that nearly took his life.<\/p>\n<h1>Big In Japan: Joe Doering Wins Triple Crown Following Brain Surgery<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bcwonline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BCWonline<\/a>&#39;s own Joe Doering on winning <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alljapan_pw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alljapan_pw<\/a> Triple Crown Championship for 2nd time last night in Japan! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iNtafkCbaR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/iNtafkCbaR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Border City Wrestling (@bcwonline) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bcwonline\/status\/921837894137991174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 21, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>From Wisconsin, Joe Doering got his big start in Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 2004. Trained by famed wrestling trainer <strong>Scott D&#8217;Amore<\/strong> (who&#8217;s now the\u00a0Vice President of International Relations for <strong>Impact Wrestling<\/strong> as well as Creative), he started out in <strong>Border City Wrestling<\/strong> and then, following a stint in Puerto Rico with <strong>WWC<\/strong> in 2006, headed to All-Japan in 2007, where he&#8217;s become one of the promotion&#8217;s top\u00a0<em>gaijin<\/em> wrestlers of the 2000s. He had a brief stint with the WWE&#8217;s developmental at <strong>Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW)<\/strong>, facing future WWE Superstars like <strong>Bray Wyatt<\/strong>, <strong>Bo Dallas<\/strong> and <strong>Curtis Axel<\/strong> and teaming briefly with <strong>Fandango<\/strong> (then Johnny Curtis), but after 10 months he was back in Japan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8846\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8846\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/10\/2017-e1508882811628.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: AJPW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On July 27, 2014, Doering finally achieved a lifelong dream of winning one of the world&#8217;s most prestigious championships, when he defeated Suwama for the All-Japan Triple Crown championship in Tokyo, Japan, becoming just the 6th foreigner to capture All-Japan&#8217;s top title since the company was formed in 1972. He held the title for 160 days, before losing it to <strong>Go Shiozaki<\/strong> in early 2015.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8844\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/10\/DL0pynVXcAIjhoi-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"647\"><\/p>\n<p>But just as Doering was preparing his battles to reclaim his title, he was hit with devastating news. On February 25, 2016, he was diagnosed with a tumor stemming from brain cancer. He was rushed into the hospital and on March 4, it was removed via surgery. What followed next was rounds of chemotherapy and recovery that kept Doering away from the industry that he loved so much. Wrestlers, promoters and fans around the world began to show their love and support for Doering, with fundraisers set up at shows and online to help Doering cover the mounting hospital costs to treat his condition. Thankfully, the treatments and support were a success and Doering returned to action with All-Japan at the beginning of the year, culminating in the greatest way possible and returning to the top of the company he&#8217;d been a part of for the past decade. It was announced his first title defence will occur November 9, 2017 at Korakuen Hall against former WWE Superstar and NJPW favorite <strong>Yoshi Tatsu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8841\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8841\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/10\/DMqiRovX4AAdpHt-e1508882688968.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"459\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: instagram.com\/p\/BagrwTLnuly\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Scott D&#8217;Amore recently spoke to us about his overwhelming joy at his former pupil&#8217;s return to the ring and his good friend&#8217;s return to good health. &#8220;What an amazing feel good story for Joe to overcome cancer &#8211; and the long road of recovery &#8211; to reach the mountaintop of our sport,&#8221; D&#8217;Amore told us. &#8220;This is about so much more than winning a match or a belt. It&#8217;s about championing the human spirit. Joe is an inspiration to anybody who feels like they are in a bad spot and don&#8217;t see a path back to success and happiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 21, 2017,\u00a0Joe Doering captured his 2nd All-Japan Triple Crown &#8211; the top singles title in one of Japan&#8217;s oldest promotions &#8211; at AJPW Jun Akiyama &amp; Takao Omori 25th Anniversary Show in Yokohama, Japan. 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