{"id":12140,"date":"2021-08-04T12:38:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T12:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/?p=12140"},"modified":"2021-08-04T12:38:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T12:38:42","slug":"michael-elgin-has-left-new-japan-pro-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=12140","title":{"rendered":"Michael Elgin Has Left New Japan Pro-Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div >\n<div >\n<div  ><\/div>\n<p>New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced on Monday that &#8220;after careful consideration and dialogue&#8221;, they have come to a mutual agreement with Michael Elgin that he will not be signing a new contract with the promotion. His deal expired on March 31st.<\/p>\n<p>Elgin began working for New Japan back in 2015 through their relationship with Ring of Honor, and was an instant hit with both fans and decision-makers backstage. He found a good deal of success in Japan winning the IWGP Intercontinental Championship from Kenny Omega in the first Ladder Match in the promotion&#8217;s history. He is also a former NEVER Openweight Champion, a NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champion, and won the 2017 New Japan Rumble.<\/p>\n<p>During his four years Elgin was heavily praised for his hard-hitting style and received rave reviews for many of his singles matches, in particular for his performances in the 2017 and 2018 G1 Climax tournaments where he wrestled &#8220;four star&#8221; or higher matches in almost every round. His matches with Omega, Kazuchika Okada and especially Tetsuya Naito, the later of which was given &#8220;five stars&#8221; by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, are among some of the best singles matches in recent years.<\/p>\n<div  >\n<div ><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced on Monday that &#8220;after careful consideration and dialogue&#8221;, they have come to a mutual agreement with Michael Elgin that he will not be signing a new contract with the promotion. His deal expired on March 31st. Elgin began working for New Japan back in 2015 through their relationship with Ring of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=12140\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael Elgin Has Left New Japan Pro-Wrestling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}