— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) June 24, 2025

AEW President Tony Khan took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to announce that Ibushi will be in action on the June 25 edition of “Dynamite” as he will go one-on-one with Trent Beretta of The Don Callis Family. Ibushi and Beretta have only ever shared the ring in tag team matches, with those bouts taking place in NJPW towards the end of 2018, making this the first time in both men’s careers that they will be wrestling each other in singles action. Not only will it be Ibushi’s first AEW match in nearly two years, or the first time wrestling Beretta, but it will actually be his first singles match ever in AEW as he has only ever wrestled in multi-man affairs.

The reasons why Ibushi has been away for so long are injuries and visa issues. On January 2, 2024, Ibushi broke both of his ankles during a match in Pro Wrestling NOAH against Naomichi Marufuji, but managed to make a return just six months later at a GLEAT event in Japan. While he has been getting his visa ready to return to the US, he has remained semi-active in Japan, wrestling for the likes of GLEAT, Marvelous, and the company where he originally made his name, DDT.