Popular AEW Star Announced For G1 Climax

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Despite being tucked away in Ring of Honor for most of the year Eddie Kingston is set to receive a major spotlight this summer when he competes in his very first NJPW G1 Climax.

The field for this year’s tournament was unveiled courtesy of the NJPW official website, with veteran names such as Kazuchika Okada, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Tetsuya Naito joining debutants such as Kingston, Shota Umino and Hikuleo.

The tournament will take place over 19 events, beginning on Saturday, July 15 and Sapporo and running until Sunday, August 13 in Ryogoku.

Please find the full 32-man line-up listed below:

Kazuchika Okada

Tetsuya Naito

SANADA

Will Ospreay

Hiroshi Tanahashi

David Finlay

Shota Umino

Shingo Takagi

Tomohiro Ishii

Tama Tonga

Tanga Loa

Hikuleo

Hirooki Goto

YOSHI-HASHI

Toru Yano

KENTA

Zack Sabre Jr.

Taichi

Eddie Kingston

El Phantasmo

Ren Narita

EVIL

Chase Owens

Jeff Cobb

Great-O-Khan

Aaron Henare

Gabriel Kidd

Alex Coughlin

Shane Haste

Mikey Nicholls

Yota Tsuji

Kaito Kiyomiya

A huge dream match has been set for the highly anticipated second annual AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door PPV on June 25, to find out more follow this link here.

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