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The tournament officially billed as New Japan Cup 2020 USA will see the winner challenge IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Jon Moxley at a yet to be determined date.

Current three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Los Ingobernables de Japon (LIJ) member Hiromu Takahashi will miss a good portion (possibly the rest) of the current Summer Struggle tour but will return in time for his v2 defense of the title against Bullet Club member Taiji Ishimori on August 29th during the Summer Struggle in Jingu featured event.

Currently, Nagata leads their overall series 6-5 after two straight victories over Suzuki. Despite Nagata not having been featured in the marquee scene in New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) for several years, many NJPW fans in the west are excited about the upcoming match that takes place at on July 31st at 5:30 AM EST.

Yuji Nagata and Minoru Suzuki meet in the marquee match of the August 31st Summer Struggle 2020 event, in a highly anticipated match after their 2020 New Japan Cup match during the first-round.

While NJPW isn’t expecting to generate approximately $462 million from television rights deals in the United States, they could very well generate a sizeable amount of revenue if they were able to secure even a decent deal within the territory.

Early this morning in the west, New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) published a taped press conference to announce the marquee…

The second Summer Struggle event a part of the massive build-up towards the August 29th, Summer Struggle in Jingu featured event saw the continuation of several programs that have been brewing over previous weeks.

The massive New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) Summer Struggle tour got underway a day after Sengoku Lord.

Nagata and Suzuki would continue their focus on one another after their first-round New Japan Cup classic from several weeks ago.

The first big show since Dominion, Sengoku Lord would be headlined by EVIL’s first defense of the IWGP Heavyweight Title…