NJPW Announces Date For Tom Lawlor's First-Ever Strong Openweight Title Defense


NJPW recently announced that NJPW Strong Openweight Champion Tom Lawlor will have his first-ever NJPW Strong Openweight Title defense against Chris Dickinson on the Friday, May 28 edition of NJPW STRONG. NJPW also announced the main events of each episode of STRONG from later tonight until May 21st.

Tonight's episode of STRONG will see IWGP United States Champion Jon Moxley team with Chris Dickinson to go up against Yuji Nagata and Ren Narita in the main event, while Karl Fredericks, Brody King, TJP and Clark Connors will go up against Tom Lawlor, Chris Dickinson, JR Kratos and Danny Limelight in an Elimination Match on the May 14th episode of STRONG also as the main event.

The May 21st episode of STRONG will then see Fred Rosser face Hikuleo in a No Disqualification Match.

You can check out the announcement below: