An AEW star is heading to Japan to make his long-awaited NJPW debut.
At NJPW's Best of the Super Juniors finals, it was revealed that Claudio Castagnoli will be in action at Dominion on Sunday, June 4. Castagnoli, Jon Moxley & Shota Umino are set to challenge Kazuchika Okada, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tomohiro Ishii for the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team titles.
The announcement was made by Umino after an eight-man tag match at the BOSJ finals. Umino, Ren Narita, El Desperado & Mike Bailey defeated Okada, Tanahashi, Ishii & Ryusuke Taguchi when Narita submitted Taguchi.
Umino got on the microphone following the match and issued a challenge for the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team titles at Dominion. Umino declared that his partners would be Moxley & Castagnoli.
In AEW, Castagnoli and Moxley are stablemates in the Blackpool Combat Club.
Moxley teamed with Umino and Blackpool Combat Club's Wheeler Yuta at NJPW Resurgence in California last week, defeating Okada, Ishii & Rocky Romero.
While this will be his NJPW debut, Castagnoli did wrestle at AEW & NJPW's Forbidden Door pay-per-view in 2022. In what was Castagnoli's first match for AEW, he defeated Zack Sabre Jr.
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Castagnoli is the current ROH World Champion.
Dominion will be the first time Moxley has wrestled in Japan since 2020. The event is being held at Osaka-jo Hall and will stream live on NJPW World.