Tomohiro Ishii Announced For AEW Dynamite

CHAOS continues to make its presence known on AEW programming.

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With AEW having teased something more with CHAOS, it's now been revealed that CHAOS' Tomohiro Ishii will be in action on this coming Wednesday's edition of AEW Dynamite.

As announced during last night's Full Gear Buy-In, Ishii will team with Orange Cassidy to take on The Butcher and The Blade on Wednesday. Of course, this all comes in the aftermath of last week's AEW Rampage.

On Rampage, Butcher and Blade interfered in Cassidy's match against Matt Hardy, costing Freshly Squeezed that bout. Prior to this contest, it had been announced that Best Friends had become formal members of New Japan Pro Wrestling's CHAOS stable after OC had been in the corner of Rocky Romero for his match against Bryan Danielson.

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CHAOS was initially formed back in 2009 under the leadership of Shinsuke Nakamura. With various different iterations of the stable over the past 12 years, the current CHAOS line-up features Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano, Yoshi-Hashi, Yoh, Hirooki Goto, Robbie Eagles, Mikey Nicholls and the aforementioned Ishii, Romero and Best Friends.

Elsewhere, this next AEW Dynamite offering will also see Jay Lethal challenge for Sammy Guevara's TNT Title, Hikaru Shida vs. Nyla Rose in the quarterfinals of the TBS Championship tournament, and Lio Rush and Dante Martin vs. The Acclaimed.

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