Tomohiro Ishii Faces Big Damo On 6/4 NJPW STRONG
The lineup is set for Saturday’s NJPW STRONG.
NJPW announced that the June 4 episode of NJPW STRONG Mutiny will be headlined by Tomohiro Ishii taking on Big Damo.
Plus, Alex Zayne teams with Christopher Daniels to take on Bullet Club members El Phantasmo & Chris Bey. The opening contest will see KEITA & Yuya Uemura squaring off against Kevin Blackwood & Lucas Riley.
Main event: Tomohiro Ishii vs Big Damo
Singles record: 1-0 Damo
Tomohiro Ishii and Big Damo lock horns in a monster main event clash on STRONG. These two first met in 2015 for Rev pro, where Ishii was stopped on home promotion turf by the Belfast native; over the intervening seven years, Ishii’s stature in NJPW grew while Damo would make a major name for himself in the US. When Damo began to ply his trade in NJPW rings on STRONG, it seemed inevitable that this rematch over half a decade in the making would go down, and here we are. Damo has the confidence of a man who knows he can beat Ishii, but the Stone Pitbull has picked up monster victories on his current US tour, including over Minoru Suzuki, Eddie Kingston and JONAH. Will Damo become another victim?
2nd Match: BULLET CLUB (Chris Bey & El Phantasmo) vs Alex Zayne & Christopher Daniels
The ‘Bey-F-Fs of BULLET CLUB’ in Chris Bey and El Phantasmo take on Alex Zayne and Chris Daniels in tag team action tonight. Though Daniels and Zayne are a fresh side in the face of the well tuned chemistry of Bey and ELP, the combination of The Sauce’s dynamism and the Fallen Angel’s experience make this a hard tag team encounter to predict.
1st Match: KEITA & Yuya Uemura vs Kevin Blackwood & Lucas Riley
Tag team action kicks off the evening on STRONG, as Uemura and KEITA team up for the first time to face Kevin Blackwood and Lucas Riley. Four hot young prospects will show the shape of things to come in our opening contest!
Fightful will have results from NJPW STRONG, which airs at 8 p.m. ET on NJPW World, following the conclusion of the event. Fans can check out results from past NJPW STRONG events at Fightful’s results section.
