Jon Moxley is about to return to Japan on June ninth for NJPW Dominion in Osaka-jō Corridor in Osaka, Japan. Moxley is about to defend his IWGP World Heavyweight Championship towards former IWGP Heavyweight Champion Evil on the annual June occasion however now with an added stipulation, which may work in Evil’s favor.
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NJPW introduced that Moxley’s protection will happen beneath Lumberjack Deathmatch guidelines, which means there will likely be wrestlers -likely from Evil’s Home of Torture and Moxley’s Blackpool Fight Membership- at ringside to maintain the motion within the ring and little or no by the use of guidelines will likely be enforced. Evil’s Home of Torture compatriots are already identified for his or her mid-match interference, which is why Evil prompt the stipulation within the first place.
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EVIL’s demand for the stipulation was accepted, and his problem to Jon Moxley’s IWGP World Heavyweight title will likely be in a Lumberjack Match!https://t.co/xpRrCioUSU#njpw #njdominion pic.twitter.com/jd2KvrHfCv
— NJPW World (@njpwglobal) June 1, 2024
Moxley is at present in his first run with the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, which he received from Tetsuya Naito in April. The match will likely be Moxley’s 4th protection of the title, having already crushed Shota Umino, Ren Narita, and AEW’s Powerhouse Hobbs in title matches. Moxley has been the goal of animosity from the NJPW locker room, together with his protege Umino, who imagine that Moxley’s part-time standing with the corporate robs followers of the IWGP Title preview matches which are normally featured on the smaller occasions on the NJPW schedule.
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Moxley has had a variety of “World Title Eliminator” Matches in AEW, together with a latest one on the Double or Nothing PPV towards Konosuke Takeshita, however not one of the challengers have certified for an IWGP title match.