Los Ingobernables de Japon (LIJ) member and NEVER Openweight Champion Shingo Takagi made the V4 defense of the title against former NEVER Openweight Champion and Suzuki-Gun leader Minoru Suzuki during Summer Struggle in Jingu.
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With a good portion of the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) roster elsewhere in the world, it’s unsure who will be the next to challenge the Suzuki-Gun team for the championship.
Through his recent statements, Naito would like to defend each championship separately and not as a unified title as the ‘Double Championship’ has been presented since its inception on January 5, 2020, at Wrestle Kingdom 14.
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi of the Los Ingobernables de Japon (LIJ) unit last defended the title on February 9, 2020 during The New Beginning in Osaka against Ryu Lee. At Summer Struggle in Jingu he makes his V2 defense of his third reign as champion against Bullet Club member (and former champion) Taiji Ishimori.
On July 25th at Dominion Suzuki-Gun members, Dangerous Tekkers (Zack Sabre Jr/Taichi) defeated Golden Ace (Hiroshi Tanahashi/Kota Ibushi) for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, beginning their first reign with the title.
The marquee main event for New Japan Pro Wrestling’s (NJPW) Summer Struggle in Jingu featured event will see Evil make his V2 defense of the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental ‘Double Championship’ against challenger (and the previous champion) Tetsuya Naito.
Early this morning in the west, New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) published a taped press conference to announce the marquee…