Six more matches official
Doors between promotions come tumbling down through June! Before NJPW and AEW head to Toronto for Forbidden Door on June 25, June 9 will see NJPW, NOAH and AJPW All Together Again in Ryogoku. With three big matches already announced, a second wave of announcements brings six more collisions between all three promotions.
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A collection of junior all stars from all three companies will see Amakusa of NOAH, AJPW’s World Junior Heavyweight Champion Atsuki Aoyagi and Hiromu Takahashi face Best of the Super Jr. winner Master Wato, GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Hayata and Rising Hayato. With All Together Again taking place just five short days after Dominion, Wato may be the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion; either way his title bout with Hiromu plays out in Osaka Jo Hall, the two are sure to be exciterd at the prospect of tangling once again.
Wato will also have keen memories of pinning current AJPW World Junior Champion Aoyagi in Korakuen Hall at the All Star Junior Festival back in march. Tonight is a chance to continue that situation, with young AJPW star Rising Hayato also in the mix. Meanwhile Hiromu’s reconnection with an old friend in Amakusa was one of many junior heavyweight stories of the early spring, and they’ll be looking to put NOAH’s Hayata in his place in a match with plenty of movieng parts.
Ten man tag team action will pit United Empire against a cross factional AJPW force. Jun and Rei Saito of long running AJPW faction Voodoo Murders combine with Ryuki Honda of the Gungnir of Anarchy, and two men in Hikaru Sato and Dan Tamura that United Empire’s Francesco Akira was familiar with in tag battles while competing for All Japan at the start of the decade. In the face of a disparate side from All Japan, United Empire will likely look to stamp an authoritative mark on Ryogoku.
Strong Style’s Ren Narita, El Desperado and Minoru Suzuki face NOAH’s Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura and Junta Miyawaki. Desperado and Suzuki have a lot of previous with Marufuji and Sugiura going back to Suzuki-Gun’s reign of terror in NOAH between 2015 and 2017, while Miyawaki and Narita will be more than happy to represent the new generations of their respective companies in what’s sure to be an explosive and hard hitting battle.
Recently reunited under AXIZ as Katsuhiko Nakajima left former factional home Kongo earlier in the spring, Nakajima and perennial NOAH ace Go Shiozaki face Hokuto Omori and long time powerful face of AJPW, Shuji Ishikwa. Omori and Ishikawa have traded wins one on one in recent months, but can they put up a strong united front against the combined AXIZ force?
A first time ever singles clash pits Shota Umino opposite ‘World Famous’ Yoshitatsu of All Japan. 2002 Dojo class member Yoshitatsu faces the 2022 excursion returnee Umino, as the Roughneck looks to show the strength of New Japan’s youth movement int he face of the AJPW veteran.
TMDK’s Zack Sabre Jr. and Kosei Fujita will take on rising international NOAH stars in Chris Ridgeway and Sean Legacy at All Together Again. Ridgeway and ZSJ reunite after they traded wins in UK rings back in 2018, with both looking to show the benefit of half a decade’s extra experience. Meanwhile Sean Legacy, a new face to NOAH having debuted back in April, will likely be tested by Fujita, whose momentum (and some might say, head) has only grown bigger since pinning Gedo in tag action recently in Yoyogi.
