{"id":88500,"date":"2021-04-04T08:04:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=88500"},"modified":"2021-04-04T08:04:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T12:04:22","slug":"aaron-henare-joins-united-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/04\/04\/aaron-henare-joins-united-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Henare Joins United Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going into\u00a0<em>Sakura Genesis\u00a0<\/em>one of the most exciting parts of the card was the reveal of the new United Empire member.\u00a0 For weeks fans have speculated on the identity of &#8220;X&#8221; who teamed with\u00a0<strong>Jeff Cobb\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Great O-Khan\u00a0<\/strong>to take on Los Ingobernables De Japon.\u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;The ultimate weapon&#8221; Aaron Henare, who recently showcased some edge, was revealed to be the new member making himself the fourth heavyweight in the United Empire stable that&#8217;s shaping up to be one of the strongest lineups in NJPW, and we mean pure strength!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Toa Henare is X, the newest member of United Empire <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2T2ODclOlp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/2T2ODclOlp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Super J-Cast (@thesuperjcast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesuperjcast\/status\/1378631970003976192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Aaron Henare has been someone on the brink of a push in NJPW for some time now under his old moniker Toa Henare.\u00a0 Henare is a match for wrestlers like\u00a0<strong>Tomohiro Ishii\u00a0<\/strong>with his stiff wrestling style and ability to take a hit.\u00a0 \u00a0Now with a new name, a new level of aggression, and a new faction it seems the time has come for Henare to get his long-awaited push.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Henare pinned <strong>SANADA\u00a0<\/strong>to win the match for his side.\u00a0 Look for a feud between the two to spiral out of this match with a number of big NJPW shows coming up in the near future that could use an important singles match to spice the card up.<\/p>\n<p><i>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><i>Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/i><\/a><i>\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.\u00a0 You can watch Sakura Genesis 2021 and plenty more tremendous wrestling content from New Japan Pro Wrestling on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/njpwworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NJPWWorld.com<\/a>; The King of Sports Streaming.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? Head on over to the\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/boards\/index.php\" target=\"_self\"><b><i>LWOS Boards<\/i><\/b><\/a><i>\u00a0to engage in conversation with fellow fans and discuss NJPW.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going into\u00a0Sakura Genesis\u00a0one of the most exciting parts of the card was the reveal of the new United Empire member.\u00a0 For weeks fans have speculated on the identity of &#8220;X&#8221; who teamed with\u00a0Jeff Cobb\u00a0and\u00a0Great O-Khan\u00a0to take on Los Ingobernables De Japon.\u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;The ultimate weapon&#8221; Aaron Henare, who recently showcased some edge, was revealed to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":88515,"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":[6975,12,14,2192],"tags":[1697],"class_list":["post-88500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-wrestling","category-news","category-njpw","category-wrestling","tag-henare"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88500","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=88500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}