Things got more interesting for IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jon Moxley and his title defense at the NJPW Dominion on June 9, which is one of the promotion’s biggest events of the year.
Moxley will defend the title against EVIL in a Lumberjack match. Moxley recently scored title eliminator wins over Konosuke Takeshita at AEW Double Or Noting and Rocky Romero on last Wednesday’s Dynamite.
The Best of the Super Juniors 31 finals will headline the show. Other bouts on the card include NEVER Openweight Champion Shingo Takagi defending against HENARE, NJPW World TV Champion Jeff Cobb defending against Tomohiro Ishii, Provisional KOPW 2024 Champion Yuya Uemura defending against Great-O-Khan, and an IWGP Tag Team & NJPW Strong Tag Team title elimination match with KENTA & Chase Owens vs. El Phantasmo & Hikuleo vs. Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI vs. Mikey Nicholls & Shane Haste. Here is the full card:
Best of the Super Juniors Final:
El Desperado vs. Taiji Ishimori
IWGP World Heavyweight Championship — Lumberjack Match:
Jon Moxley (c) vs. EVIL
NEVER Openweight Championship:
Shingo Takagi (c) vs. HENARE
NJPW STRONG Openweight & IWGP Tag Team Championships — Tornado Elimination Four-Way Match:
BULLET CLUB (Chase Owens & KENTA) (IWGP) vs. Hikuleo & El Phantasmo (STRONG) vs. T.M.D.K. (Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls) vs. Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI)
NJPW World Television Championship:
Jeff Cobb (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii
NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships:
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Oleg Boltin & Toru Yano (c) vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Yota Tsuji, Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI)
KOPW Championship — Storm Catch Rules Match:
Yuya Uemura (c) vs. Great-O-Khan
T.M.D.K. (Kosei Fujita, Robbie Eagles & Zack Sabre Jr.) vs. Clark Connors, Drilla Moloney & L.J. Cleary
Tetsuya Naito vs. Callum Newman