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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