{"id":99907,"date":"2021-09-05T06:31:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T10:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=99907"},"modified":"2021-09-05T06:31:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T10:31:53","slug":"jon-moxley-wins-gcw-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/09\/05\/jon-moxley-wins-gcw-world-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Jon Moxley Wins GCW World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <strong>Game Changer Wrestling<\/strong>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/09\/02\/gcw-the-art-of-war-games\/\" target=\"_self\">Art of War Games<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>the world of GCW was turned on it&#8217;s head with the crowning of a new champion.\u00a0 Current GCW Champion Matt Cardona had a mystery opponent lined up for his title defense, this mystery turned out to be none other than <strong>Jon<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Moxley<\/strong>.\u00a0 Moxley defeated Cardona and captured the title for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1434368312016834561<\/p>\n<p>This ends Matt Cardona&#8217;s run as champion after just 43 days.\u00a0 Cardona defeating\u00a0<strong>Nick Gage\u00a0<\/strong>was a massive shock at the time and led to fans bombarding the ring with debris.\u00a0 Cardona&#8217;s heel work leading up to and after his title win was second to none and this made it all the more satisfying that it was ultraviolent Jon Moxley who defeated him for the title.\u00a0 If this is the last we see of Matt Cardona in GCW then he has had one of the most memorable stints in company history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OMG!!! Jon Moxley just told Nick Gage that if he wants the GCW Championship, he knows where to find him!\ud83d\ude31 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GCWWarGames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GCWWarGames<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WTNJo0wkZ6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/WTNJo0wkZ6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud835\udc03\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc15\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc27 (@WrestlingCovers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WrestlingCovers\/status\/1434368731786973186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Following Moxley&#8217;s win, he once again came face to face with Nick Gage.\u00a0 Gage and Moxley are on a collision course to wrestle in a match that fans have fantasy booked for years. Two of the toughest SOB&#8217;s in all of wrestling are set to duke it out over a title synonymous with Nick Gage.\u00a0 When it goes down it will no doubt be a violent spectacle between the two experienced deathmatch combatants.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for 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. Check out GCW The Art of War Games on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fite.tv\/watch\/gcw-the-art-of-war-games\/2p9xg\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FITE<\/a> where you can still purchase the VOD for the show.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Game Changer Wrestling\u00a0Art of War Games\u00a0the world of GCW was turned on it&#8217;s head with the crowning of a new champion.\u00a0 Current GCW Champion Matt Cardona had a mystery opponent lined up for his title defense, this mystery turned out to be none other than Jon\u00a0Moxley.\u00a0 Moxley defeated Cardona and captured the title for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":88592,"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":[4677,5274,12,6],"tags":[2629,4395],"class_list":["post-99907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-gcw","category-news","category-north-america","tag-andnew","tag-jon-moxley"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99907","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=99907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}