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IMPACT Wrestling x NJPW: Multiverse United 2: For Whom The Bell Tolls
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Multiverse United 2 (marketed as Multiverse United 2: For Whom the Bell Tolls) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event co-produced by Impact Wrestling and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on August 20, 2023, at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was the third event under the Multiverse chronology.
08-20-2023
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Movie Details
Production Info
Production:
New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Impact Wrestling
Locations and Languages
Country:
US
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Josh Harter
Joshua Harter, better known by his ring name Chris Sabin, is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand. He is most known for working for Total Nonstop Action (TNA) and Ring of Honor (ROH) and for being one half of The Motor City Machine Guns alongside his tag team parter Alex Shelley.
Sabin won 14 total championships while with TNA. He is a one-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion, a record 10-time TNA X Division Champion, a three-time TNA World Tag Team Champion with Alex Shelley, and during a talent exchange with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) a one-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion and a former Strong Openweight Tag Team Champion, also with Shelley. On September 13, 2024, it was reported that Sabin with his tag team partner Alex Shelley signed a contract with WWE.
Frank Benedict Gerdelman is an American professional wrestler. He is signed with Ring of Honor (ROH) under the ring name Frankie Kazarian and is a two-time ROH World Tag Team Champion with Christopher Daniels. He is best known for his work with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), under the ring names Kazarian and Kaz, he also wrestled under the gimmick of Suicide where he became one-time TNA X Division Champion under the character.
Kazarian also wrestled in the independent promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, where he is a two time former world champion, having won the PWG World Championship in 2003 and 2004. Also, he is the inaugural PWG World Champion when he won the Bad Ass Mother tournament. Kazarian is also a five-time TNA X Division Champion and a three-time TNA World Tag Team Champion.
Tetsuya Shimizu is a Japanese professional wrestler who has worked under the ring names T28, Tetsuya, and Tetsuya Bushi. He works as the masked BUSHI (stylized in all capital letters) for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). Having worked for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) for most of his career, Bushi transferred to NJPW in April 2012.
Richard Allen Swann is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Impact Wrestling. He is a former one-time Impact World Champion, former one-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion and a former one-time Impact X Division Champion. Swann is also known for his time in WWE, where he performed under the name Rich Swann, which is his ring name today. In WWE, he is a former WWE Cruiserweight Champion. Additionally, Swann has competed for promotions such as Full Impact Pro, Evolve, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), Dragon Gate and Major League Wrestling (MLW). He is a former RevPro British Tag Team Champion, FIP World Heavyweight Champion, FIP Tag Team Champion, Open the United Gate, Open the Owarai Gate and Open the Triangle Gate Champion. In 2018, Swann signed with Impact Wrestling winning the Impact X Division Championship and later winning the Impact World Championship becoming the second African-American to hold that championship (after Bobby Lashley) and the third African-American world champion in the history of the company after Ron Killings and Bobby Lashley. In 2021, Swann would unify the Impact World Championship and the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Overall, Swann is a five-time world champion in wrestling.
Kevin Knight is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). He also makes appearances for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) where he is a former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion.
Eric Maher is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Eddie Edwards. He is currently signed to IMPACT Wrestling, where he is a former IMPACT World Champion, two-time IMPACT X Division Champion and IS a five-time IMPACT World Tag Team Champion with Davey Richards. Edwards has also wrestled for Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a former World Champion, the inaugural Television Champion, and a two-time World Tag Team Champion with his partner Davey Richards as The American Wolves. He won ROH's Survival of the Fittest tournament in November 2010 which propelled him to win the World Championship. His World Championship victory made him the first wrestler to win the ROH Triple Crown and the only wrestler to ever hold both the Impact Wrestling and ROH Triple Crowns. He was also a regular for the Southern California-based promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) and has made several tours of Japan with Pro Wrestling Noah, where he is a former GHC Heavyweight Champion, and is, to date, the only foreigner ever to win said championship. Between Impact, ROH, and Noah, Edwards has won 13 total championships (including three world championships) and is the only wrestler to have held the IMPACT, ROH, and GHC world championships.
Quinn Ojinnaka is an American professional wrestler and former American football player, known professionally as Moose. He is currently signed to IMPACT Wrestling, where he is a former two-time IMPACT Grand Champion. In addition, Quinn has been the GWF Heavyweight Champion and he has also worked for Ring of Honor, Revolution Pro Wrestling, Evolve Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling, and Pro Wrestling Noah. As an offensive lineman, he played college football at Syracuse and was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He went on to play for the New England Patriots, St. Louis Rams, and Indianapolis Colts.
Australian professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Shane Haste, currently working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling. He is best known for his work in Pro Wrestling NOAH, where, as part of The Mighty Don't Kneel, he is a former two-time GHC Tag Team Champion.
Luke James Uggles Eatwell, known by his ring name Zack Sabre Jr. and its abbreviated form ZSJ, is an English-born professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is the current IWGP World Heavyweight Champion in his first reign. In NJPW, he is the second and current leader of the group The Mighty Don't Kneel (TMDK) and is a former two-time and inaugural NJPW World Television Champion. He also makes sporadic appearances for partner promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and its sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH).
Eimi Gloria Matsudo, better known by her ring name Giulia, is a Japanese professional wrestler. She is currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the NXT brand. She is best known for her time in Stardom from 2019 to 2024, where she became a one-time World of Stardom Champion, one-time Wonder of Stardom Champion, one-time Goddesses of Stardom Champion, and two-time Artist of Stardom Champion. She is also known for her tenure in NJPW from 2020 to 2024.
Deonna Kupryk is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Impact Wrestling, where she is a former two-time Impact Knockouts Champion. She also appears in Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) — with which Impact has a partnership — where she is a former AAA Reina de Reinas Champion. She is also a former Ring of Honor Women's World Champion.
Deonna began her career in 2012, wrestling in various independent promotions, eventually appearing national promotions Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and Ring of Honor (ROH). She also worked for the Japanese promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom). In 2018, while under contract with ROH, she was announced to be part of the independent event All In. Later she signed a contract with WWE and was assigned to the NXT brand. However, she was released in 2020. After her release, Deonna signed with Impact Wrestling (the former TNA) and quickly rose through the ranks in the women's division, and would become a four-time women's champion between Impact, AAA, and ROH.
Theodore James Perkins, better known by the ring name T. J. Perkins (or simply TJP), is an American professional wrestler of Filipino descent, who currently works for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he is a former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion and is a member and leader of the United Empire stable. He is best known for his tenures in WWE and TNA Wrestling.
Kosei Fujita is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of The Mighty Don't Kneel (TMDK) stable.
Austin James Highley is an American professional wrestler who currently competes in IMPACT Wrestling as Ace Austin, where he is a former IMPACT X Division Champion. He began his career in Combat Zone Wrestling after graduating from the "CZW Dojo" wrestling school and has also competed for various promotions throughout the United States and Mexico including Major League Wrestling, Tommy Dreamer's House of Hardcore, Florida-based World Xtreme Wrestling and Mexico's Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA).
Chris Bey is an American professional wrestler, currently signed with IMPACT Wrestling. He is also known for his work on the independent scene, most notably for Championship Wrestling from Hollywood (CWFH) and Game Changer Wrestling (GCW).
Connor Deutsch, better known by his ring name Clark Connors, is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of the Bullet Club stable and is one-half of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions alongside Drilla Moloney, in their second reign. Also in NJPW, Connors was the winner of the 2020 Lion's Break Crown.
David Stephen Finlay III is a German-born Irish-American professional wrestler who performs under the ring name David Finlay. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is the current IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion in his record-setting second reign, and is the seventh and current leader of Bullet Club.
Kenta Kobayashi is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known by his ring name KENTA. A former amateur kickboxer, Kobayashi's wrestling style is based upon strong kicks and strikes. He was signed to the American professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he worked in its developmental territory NXT, as well as 205 Live, under the ring name Hideo Itami. He currently works for the Japanese wrestling promotion, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW).
Alipate Aloisio Leone, better known by his ring name Tama Tonga, is a Tongan professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand as a member of The Bloodline. He is the nephew and adopted son of professional wrestler Haku.
From 2010 to 2024 he was in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he was a founding member of Bullet Club alongside Bad Luck Fale, Karl Anderson and Prince Devitt. He was also a founding member of Guerrillas of Destiny (G.O.D.) alongside his brother Tanga Loa. The Guerrillas of Destiny won the IWGP Tag Team Championship seven times, the 2020 edition of the World Tag League tournament and, due to the collaboration between NJPW and Ring of Honor, the ROH World Tag Team Championship.
As a singles wrestler, Tonga held the NEVER Openweight Championship four times. He has also worked with NJPW's partner promotion in Mexico, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) where he has held the CMLL World Tag Team Championship twice.
On the April 12, 2024 edition of SmackDown, Tonga made his WWE debut as a member of the Bloodline.
Tevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata Fifita is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Tonga Loa, and is a member of The Bloodline.
Fifita started his professional wrestling career in WWE's farm territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) in 2009. He was promoted to the main roster in 2011, where he worked under the ring name Camacho in a tag team with Hunico. They worked on the undercard on the SmackDown and NXT brands for a few years. After he left WWE in 2014, he worked for two years in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the name Micah, where he won the 2015's Gut Check. Later, he left the promotion and joined New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) under the ring name Tanga Loa, joining his brother Tama Tonga as Guerrillas of Destiny (G.O.D.), a subgroup of the heel faction Bullet Club. In NJPW, Loa and Tonga are seven-time IWGP Tag Team Champions and former three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions with Bad Luck Fale and Taiji Ishimori. He also has made appearances in Ring of Honor (ROH), where the Guerrillas of Destiny are former one-time ROH World Tag Team Champions. He returned to WWE on May 4, 2024 under the ring name Tonga Loa, aligning himself with The Bloodline.
Fifita is part of a large wrestling family, as he is the adoptive brother of Tama Tonga and Hikuleo, and the son of Haku.
Joshua Lemay is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Josh Alexander. He is currently signed to IMPACT Wrestling, where he is part of a tag team with Ethan Page called The North. He is a one-time Pro Wrestling Guerilla (PWG) World Tag Team Champion with Ethan Page as Monster Mafia, and a one-time AAW Heavyweight Champion.
Pierre Carl Ouellet is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is currently wrestling for Ring of Honor (ROH) as PCO, where he is a member of the stable "Villian Enterprises" alongside Brody King and Marty Scurll; they are the current holders of the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship.
Ouellet is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling as one-half of The Quebecers/The Amazing French Canadians with Jacques Rougeau (with whom he held the WWF Tag Team Championship on three occasions). Other promotions Ouellet has wrestled for include Extreme Championship Wrestling, the International Wrestling Association, Major League Wrestling, and NWA Total Nonstop Action. After retiring in 2011, Ouellet returned to the ring in 2016, undergoing a career renaissance with the "gimmick of part beast-turned-man, part old-time strongman On May 21, 2016, Ouellet made his return to professional wrestling at an MWF event, entitled "Collision," in Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada, defeating Jake Matthews, following a cannonball. Under a new gimmick as a "French Frankenstein" as Ouellet described it, he became a regular name in several independent promotions. On April 2, 2018, Ouellet defeated Walter at Game Changer Wrestling's (GCW) Joey Janela's Spring Break 2 in New Orleans. Ouellet's performance and online footage of his unconventional workout regimen impressed the independent wrestling audience, and led to many higher-profile bookings.
PCO doing a dive onto Rickey Shane Page in 2018
On June 18, 2018, Ouellet was announced as the first of twenty-four participants for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla's (PWG) annual Battle of Los Angeles tournament. At 2018 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage One on September 15, he made his company debut, losing to Brody King in the Opening Round. Two nights later, at 2018 Battle of Los Angeles - Final Stage, he led a losers' ten-man tag team match, in which Team PCO (Ouellet, Darby Allin, Dan Barry, Jody Fleisch and Puma King) defeated Team DJ Z (DJ Z, Adam Brooks, David Starr, T-Hawk and Timothy Thatcher).
Ring of Honor (2018–present)
On December 1, 2018, Ouellet announced his exclusive signing with Ring of Honor. He debuted for ROH at the December 15 tapings joining up with Marty Scurll and Brody King in a new stable called Villain Enterprises. At Honor Reigns Supreme 2019, Villain Enterprises defeated Silas Young and the Briscoe Brothers. PCO and King would then go on to win the 2019 ROH Tag Wars Tournament during the ROH Road To G1 Supercard tour in February 2019, and on March 15, 2019, he and King defeated the Briscoes to win the ROH World Tag Team Championship for the first time in a Las Vegas street fight at the ROH 17th Anniversary Show. The following night at the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings, PCO, King and Scurll defeated The Kingdom to win the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship, making PCO a double champion within a 24 hour span. At the G1 Supercard, PCO and King dropped the ROH World Tag Team Championship to the Guerrillas of Destiny in a winner takes all four-way tag team match, with G.O.D.'s IWGP Tag Team Championship belts also on the line. Ouellet lost the sight in his right eye at the age of 12 after an accident with a pellet gun
Émile Charles Baillargeon-Laberge is a Canadian professional wrestler, currently signed to Impact Wrestling, where he performs under the ring name Mike Bailey.
He is the current two-time IWS World Heavyweight Champion and former two-time KO-D Tag Team Champion. Bailey was also the winner of CZW's 2015 Best of the Best, DDT's 2016 DNA Grand Prix and RevPro's 2021 British J Cup tournaments.
Lionel Gerard Green is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Lio Rush. He is currently signed to WWE, where he is assigned to their developmental territory NXT. He is best known for his time in Ring of Honor (ROH), where he was the winner of the 2016 Top Prospect Tournament, as well as his time in Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), where he was the former CZW World Heavyweight Champion and a former two-time CZW Wired Champion.
Hiroshi Tanahashi is a Japanese professional wrestler, sports executive and podcaster. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he serves as the president and representative director of the promotion, and is also an active wrestler.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, his accolades in NJPW include a record setting eight reigns as IWGP Heavyweight Champion, a record three reigns as IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion, two reigns as IWGP Intercontinental Champion, one reign as NJPW World Television Champion, three reigns as IWGP Tag Team Champion, one reign as NEVER Openweight Champion and six reigns as NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion. All totaled, Tanahashi has won 26 championships in NJPW. He has also won NJPW's premier tournament, the G1 Climax, on three occasions (2007, 2015 and 2018) and won the New Japan Cup twice, in 2005 and 2008, and is recognised as the fourth wrestler to accomplish NJPW's Triple Crown and the second to accomplish its Grand Slam, making him one of the most decorated wrestlers in NJPW.
