{"id":553749,"date":"2026-03-30T07:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553749\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:03:10","slug":"kofi-kingston-accepts-pentas-intercontinental-title-open-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553749\/","title":{"rendered":"Kofi Kingston accepts Penta\u2019s Intercontinental title open challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While Penta is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/lucha-libre-aaa-cmll\/429247\/penta-accepts-risky-title-challenge-aaa-wwe-intercontinental-wrestlemania-vikingo-omos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">busy in AAA<\/a> setting up a match against Vikingo for the Intercontinental championship on April 11, we now know it\u2019s at least possible he won\u2019t even be Intercontinental champion by that time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s because he issued an open challenge for that very title on this week\u2019s episode of Monday Night Raw at Madison Square Garden in New York, adding to an already stacked card loaded with the biggest stars WWE has to offer. Someone has already answered the call for that match too:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">WWE has not officially announced that this will indeed be the match but the official account retweeted Kingston\u2019s above tweet, indicating it\u2019s likely to take place. When doing his usual preview for Raw today, General Manager Adam Pearce didn\u2019t make mention of it either but he did run down the rest of the card:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Penta is busy in AAA setting up a match against Vikingo for the Intercontinental championship on April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,4366,8316],"class_list":{"0":"post-553749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-wwe","10":"tag-wwe-raw"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}