AEW Star Loses Championship

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An AEW star lost the IWGP NEVER Openweight Championship at today’s NJPW Dominion event.

On Sunday, June 15 NJPW held their annual Dominion pay-per-view event – with several championship matches taking place.

Among them was a NEVER Openweight Title clash between reigning champion Konosuke Takeshita and Oleg Boltin, who was seeking to win his first-ever piece of singles gold in the company.

In the end it was Boltin who did just that, dethroning Takeshita and bringing an end to his run as champion after 162 days.

As announced at NJPW Dominion, both Takeshita and Boltin will take part in this year’s G1 Climax 35 tournament, which begins on Saturday, July 19 and ends on Sunday, August 17.

As a result of Takeshita’s participation he will be taking a leave from AEW television between these dates.

16 of the 20 competitors announced for the G1 Climax 35 Tournament can be found below, with the last four being determined by four play-in matches held on June 23 and July 4.

A Block:

Yota Tsuji

El Phantasmo

Hiroshi Tanahashi

SANADA

David Finlay

EVIL

Yuya Uemura

Boltin Oleg

Play-In Winner A

Play-In Winner B

B Block:

Hirooki Goto

Konosuke Takeshita

Zack Sabre Jr.

Great-O-Khan

Ren Narita

Shingo Takagi

Gabe Kidd

Shota Umino

Play-In Winner A

Play-In Winner B

Three more titles changed hands at NJPW Dominion – SHO & DOUKI defeated Master Wato and YOH to win the IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championships, Taichi and Tomohiro Ishii defeated Great-O-Khan & Callum Newman for the IWGP Tag Team Titles and Gabe Kidd dethroned Yota Tsuji to win the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship.

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