{"id":98014,"date":"2021-08-12T22:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T02:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=98014"},"modified":"2021-08-12T22:25:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T02:25:30","slug":"brian-myers-wins-battle-royal-kenny-omega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/08\/12\/brian-myers-wins-battle-royal-kenny-omega\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Myers Wins Battle Royal, Will Face IMPACT World Champion Kenny Omega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brian<\/strong> <strong>Myers<\/strong> is the new number one contender for <strong>Kenny<\/strong> <strong>Omega&#8217;s<\/strong> IMPACT World Championship. Myers won the Number One Contenders Battle Royal this week on IMPACT to earn the shot against Omega. He will face Omega for the title at the IMPACT Plus event <strong><em>Emergence <\/em><\/strong>on August 20th. This is, of course, only if Omega is able to retain the title against <strong>Christian<\/strong> <strong>Cage<\/strong> tomorrow on the debut episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/08\/11\/christian-cage-to-challenge-kenny-omega-for-two-titles\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>AEW <\/strong><em><strong>Rampage<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Nonetheless, &#8220;Brian Myers wins battle royal&#8221; became one of the headlines coming out of tonight&#8217;s show.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Myers_Wrestling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Myers_Wrestling<\/a> is NUMBER ONE CONTENDER! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IMPACTonAXSTV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#IMPACTonAXSTV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V9xYQ0VmTj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/V9xYQ0VmTj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIsTNA\/status\/1426000557253304321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Brian Myers Wins the Battle Royal\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Number One Contenders Battle Royal that Myers won was created by IMPACT official <strong>Tommy<\/strong> <strong>Dreamer<\/strong>. <strong>Scott<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>D\u2019Amore<\/strong> tasked him with finding a new number one contender for Omega. Dreamer&#8217;s answer was the battle royal which did not sit well with <strong>Don Callis<\/strong> or Omega. Omega and Callis may not be happy with the decision, but Omega will now have to defend his title at <em>Emergence.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Myers is a former TNA Tag Team Champion with <strong>Trevor<\/strong> <strong>Lee<\/strong>. If he defeats Omega, this will be his first reign as IMPACT World Champion. He defeated notable competitors in the battle royal such as <strong>Sami Callihan<\/strong>, <strong>Moose<\/strong>, <strong>Rich<\/strong> <strong>Swann<\/strong>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/01\/26\/eddie-edwards-mr-anything-is-possible\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Eddie Edwards<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to Last Word on Sports for updates on who Myers will challenge at IMPACT <em>Emergence <\/em>as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">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. You can catch IMPACT Wrestling on Thursday nights on AXS TV and Twitch.TV as well as all the time on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/impactplus.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IMPACT Plus<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Myers is the new number one contender for Kenny Omega&#8217;s IMPACT World Championship. Myers won the Number One Contenders Battle Royal this week on IMPACT to earn the shot against Omega. He will face Omega for the title at the IMPACT Plus event Emergence on August 20th. This is, of course, only if Omega [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3722,"featured_media":98193,"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":[7,12,6,2192],"tags":[6665,2593,386],"class_list":["post-98014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","category-news","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-brian-myers","tag-impact-world-championship","tag-kenny-omega"],"modified_by":"Robbie Sutter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98014","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\/3722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}