Claudio Castagnoli to make NJPW debut at Dominion

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.

 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.