Sunday’s NJPW Dominion 2024 event in Osaka, Japan, New Japan Pro Wrestling featured one new match set for the card of AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2024 event, which takes place on June 30th at the UBS Arena in Long Island, New York.
This new match was an IWGP World Heavyweight Championship match of Tetsuya Naito vs. Jon Moxley (c).
This match was setup following Moxley’s victory over EVIL to retain the IWGP World title in a Lumberjack Deathmatch. Following the match, Moxley gave a promo and stated that he was opening the door and called for his next challenger for his title to come out. After a brief pause, Naito came out to the ring and accepted Moxley’s challenge for Forbidden Door 2024.
At today’s NJPW Dominion show, Jon Moxley retained the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against EVIL.
— WrestleTalk (@WrestleTalk_TV) June 9, 2024
Following the match, former champion Tetsuya Naito laid out the challenge to Moxley, with the two set to clash for the IWGP Title at Forbidden Door! pic.twitter.com/2HUOq08Q8U
Current card for June 30th AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2024:
- AEW World Championship – Will Ospreay vs. Swerve Strickland (c)
- IWGP World Heavyweight Championship – Tetsuya Naito vs. Jon Moxley (c)
- TBS Championship & NJPW Strong Women’s Championship Title vs. Title match – Mercedes Mone (TBS) vs. Stephanie Vaquer (NJPW Strong Women’s)
- AEW Women’s Championship – Mina Shirakawa vs. “Timeless” Toni Storm (c)
- Vacant AEW TNT Championship Ladder match – Konosuke Takeshita vs. Mark Briscoe vs. TBD(s)
- Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Orange Cassidy
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