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Dominion (June 7) full card & preview
Monday June 7 to see summer start in NJPW with Osaka spectacular
Monday June 7, NJPW’s summer officially gets underway with Dominion in Osaka Jo Hall. While the action might have moved from Sunday to Monday, the card is as stacked and hot as could be with two title bouts, a massive singles grudge match and big multiman action.
Watch Dominion LIVE, IN ENGLISH on NJPW World!
Main event: IWGP World Heavyweight Championship- Shingo Takagi vs Kazuchika Okada
Singles record: 1-1
The main event at Dominion will see the third IWGP World heavyweight Champion crowned as Shingo Takagi takes on Kazuchika Okada. Okada had originally intended to be in Dominion’s main event as IWGP World Heavyweight Champion already, his title match with Will Ospreay set for May 29 at Wrestle Grand Slam being the source of a lot of well deserved hype. Yet the Tokyo Dome card was postponed, and then Ospreay relinquished the title entirely, citing injuries sustained in his bout on May 4’s Dontaku card.
A bout where he shared the ring with Shingo Takagi. The Dragon pushed Ospreay to the very limit in one of the best IWGP Heavyweight, (World or not) title bouts in history. Takagi came up short in the end, but just barely, and with the champion out of the picture, holds just as strong a claim to the title as Okada does.
It was during the New Japan Cup this spring in fact that Shingo charted a course to the tournament finals that began with a Rainmaker delivered to its innovator, and a win over Okada that more than righted Takagi’s perceived unjust loss to the CHAOS leader during last year’s G1 Climax. At one win apiece, Osaka Jo Hall will see a rubber match that will determine not just who the better man of the two is, but who the best in the world is. As Japan enters into rainy season, will the Rainmaker come into his own? Or will the rain be evaporated by a Dragon’s fire?
4th Match: Jeff Cobb vs Kota Ibushi
At Satsuma no Kuni on April 29, Kota Ibushi issued a challenge to Jeff Cobb. It was a challenge, Ibushi would say, founded on more than just desire for revenge. After Ibushi lost the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship to Will Ospreay on April 4, Jeff Cobb delivered furthe rinjury with an unprovoked and incorrigible Tour of the Islands, but this alone wasn’t what motivated the Golden Star to take to the mic and address the Imperial Unit.
No, Ibushi instead wanted to test himself against an Olympian, and a superhuman in Cobb. In Cobb, Ibushi sees a man who can perhaps do everything he can do, but better. Ibushi has long been renowned for his combination of heavyweight power and junior heavyweight athleticism, but Cobb is equally capable of flight, incredibly capable of hurling his opponents, and perhaps decisively when it comes to this match, phenomenally capable of knocking his opponents out.
Devising the ‘Cobbigoye’ at Dontaku, Cobb sought to show he was on a clear level above Ibushi. BUSHI, Master Wato and then Ibushi himself would each taste this knockout blow in the coming days and weeks, and the move seems set to be the key to victory of choice for Cobb. Can United Empire’s Hatchet cement himself as a clear main event star and on a tier above Ibushi by using his own move against him? Or after his April 4 defeat, will Ibushi rise like the Phoenix at Dominion?
3rd Match: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship- YOH vs El Desperado
Also set for Dominion, YOH will challenge IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion El Desperado. Another match struck by postponements, YOH was originally slated to challenge Desperado on May 4 at Dontaku. After a wave of card changes, the two now meet one month later. YOH’s championship challenge came about after he and SHO took back the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships on his return at Sakura Genesis. Seeking to ride a wave of momentum to double title glory, YOH issued a challenge to singles gold in exchange for a tag team rematch at Satsuma no Kuni.
YOH and SHO held their end of the bargain in Kagoshima with an impressive defence, but can momentum continue for YOH in a Direct Drive t his first singles title? Or will Desperado, now healthy and rested, be able to make his first successful defence of the junior heavyweight title he captured in the same Osaka Jo Hall venue at the end of February?
2nd Match: Suzuki-Gun (Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi & DOUKI) vs Los Ingobernables De Japon (Tetsuya Naito, SANADA & BUSHI)
Tetsuya Naito, SANADA and BUSHI will do battle with DOUKI, Zack Sabre Jr and Taichi on Monday in Osaka Jo Hall. Dangerous Tekkers felt on top of the world on June 1, when they finally defeated Guerrillas of Destiny to lift the IWGP Tag Team Championships. Zack Sabre Jr. and Taichi were quick to issue an open challenge to any team that might like a shot at the tag titles, but at the same time, the duo has expressed an interest in teaming with DOUKI once again, and ‘Los Locos Dangerous Tekkers’ could be potential future NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championship contenders.
They might cement that position if they can put away Tetsuya Naito, SANADA and BUSHI. June 2 in Korakuen Hall, the LIJ trio fell just short of victory in their NEVER 6-Man title match, but pushed the champions to the very limit and want to get back in that mix. Yet Tetsuya Naito would also express an interest backstage in wrestling for a championship that wasn’t singles gold. Floating the prospect of a tag team combination with SANADA, Naito might have spied an opportunity, and that opportunity could be knocking in Osaka Jo Hall. Could Naito and SANADA use six man success to propel themselves to an IWGP tag title shot?
1st Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Tomohiro Ishii vs BULLET CLUB (EVIL, Taiji Ishimori, El Phantasmo, Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi)
A star studded ten man tag will kick off the night as Hiroshi Tanahashi joins a CHAOS team of SHO, Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI to face EVIL, Yujiro Takahashi, Chase Owens, Taiji Ishimori and El Phantasmo of BULLET CLUB. With competition hot for a precious few spots at the top in New Japan right now, eyes will be on names like EVIL and Hiroshi Tanahashi as they try and establish themselves back at the front line of competition. Then there are the junior heavyweights in this match. El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori could both just as easily move to challenge the winner of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match later on in the night, or seek to reclaim their IWGP Jr. heavy tag titles once YOH is free of his commitments with El Desperado, successful or not.
Should that tag challenge be made, SHO would be more than willing to accept, but his eyes will also be on the junior heavyweight title match at Dominion, especially as challenger YOH has promised the first shot to his tag team partner should he prove successful. With a lot of moving parts, you can’t take your eyes off Dominion from the opening bell Monday!
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Lets Go!
Monday June 7 to see summer start in NJPW with Osaka spectacular
Monday June 7, NJPW’s summer officially gets underway with Dominion in Osaka Jo Hall. While the action might have moved from Sunday to Monday, the card is as stacked and hot as could be with two title bouts, a massive singles grudge match and big multiman action.
Watch Dominion LIVE, IN ENGLISH on NJPW World!
Main event: IWGP World Heavyweight Championship- Shingo Takagi vs Kazuchika Okada
Singles record: 1-1
The main event at Dominion will see the third IWGP World heavyweight Champion crowned as Shingo Takagi takes on Kazuchika Okada. Okada had originally intended to be in Dominion’s main event as IWGP World Heavyweight Champion already, his title match with Will Ospreay set for May 29 at Wrestle Grand Slam being the source of a lot of well deserved hype. Yet the Tokyo Dome card was postponed, and then Ospreay relinquished the title entirely, citing injuries sustained in his bout on May 4’s Dontaku card.
A bout where he shared the ring with Shingo Takagi. The Dragon pushed Ospreay to the very limit in one of the best IWGP Heavyweight, (World or not) title bouts in history. Takagi came up short in the end, but just barely, and with the champion out of the picture, holds just as strong a claim to the title as Okada does.
It was during the New Japan Cup this spring in fact that Shingo charted a course to the tournament finals that began with a Rainmaker delivered to its innovator, and a win over Okada that more than righted Takagi’s perceived unjust loss to the CHAOS leader during last year’s G1 Climax. At one win apiece, Osaka Jo Hall will see a rubber match that will determine not just who the better man of the two is, but who the best in the world is. As Japan enters into rainy season, will the Rainmaker come into his own? Or will the rain be evaporated by a Dragon’s fire?
4th Match: Jeff Cobb vs Kota Ibushi
At Satsuma no Kuni on April 29, Kota Ibushi issued a challenge to Jeff Cobb. It was a challenge, Ibushi would say, founded on more than just desire for revenge. After Ibushi lost the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship to Will Ospreay on April 4, Jeff Cobb delivered furthe rinjury with an unprovoked and incorrigible Tour of the Islands, but this alone wasn’t what motivated the Golden Star to take to the mic and address the Imperial Unit.
No, Ibushi instead wanted to test himself against an Olympian, and a superhuman in Cobb. In Cobb, Ibushi sees a man who can perhaps do everything he can do, but better. Ibushi has long been renowned for his combination of heavyweight power and junior heavyweight athleticism, but Cobb is equally capable of flight, incredibly capable of hurling his opponents, and perhaps decisively when it comes to this match, phenomenally capable of knocking his opponents out.
Devising the ‘Cobbigoye’ at Dontaku, Cobb sought to show he was on a clear level above Ibushi. BUSHI, Master Wato and then Ibushi himself would each taste this knockout blow in the coming days and weeks, and the move seems set to be the key to victory of choice for Cobb. Can United Empire’s Hatchet cement himself as a clear main event star and on a tier above Ibushi by using his own move against him? Or after his April 4 defeat, will Ibushi rise like the Phoenix at Dominion?
3rd Match: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship- YOH vs El Desperado
Also set for Dominion, YOH will challenge IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion El Desperado. Another match struck by postponements, YOH was originally slated to challenge Desperado on May 4 at Dontaku. After a wave of card changes, the two now meet one month later. YOH’s championship challenge came about after he and SHO took back the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships on his return at Sakura Genesis. Seeking to ride a wave of momentum to double title glory, YOH issued a challenge to singles gold in exchange for a tag team rematch at Satsuma no Kuni.
YOH and SHO held their end of the bargain in Kagoshima with an impressive defence, but can momentum continue for YOH in a Direct Drive t his first singles title? Or will Desperado, now healthy and rested, be able to make his first successful defence of the junior heavyweight title he captured in the same Osaka Jo Hall venue at the end of February?
2nd Match: Suzuki-Gun (Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi & DOUKI) vs Los Ingobernables De Japon (Tetsuya Naito, SANADA & BUSHI)
Tetsuya Naito, SANADA and BUSHI will do battle with DOUKI, Zack Sabre Jr and Taichi on Monday in Osaka Jo Hall. Dangerous Tekkers felt on top of the world on June 1, when they finally defeated Guerrillas of Destiny to lift the IWGP Tag Team Championships. Zack Sabre Jr. and Taichi were quick to issue an open challenge to any team that might like a shot at the tag titles, but at the same time, the duo has expressed an interest in teaming with DOUKI once again, and ‘Los Locos Dangerous Tekkers’ could be potential future NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championship contenders.
They might cement that position if they can put away Tetsuya Naito, SANADA and BUSHI. June 2 in Korakuen Hall, the LIJ trio fell just short of victory in their NEVER 6-Man title match, but pushed the champions to the very limit and want to get back in that mix. Yet Tetsuya Naito would also express an interest backstage in wrestling for a championship that wasn’t singles gold. Floating the prospect of a tag team combination with SANADA, Naito might have spied an opportunity, and that opportunity could be knocking in Osaka Jo Hall. Could Naito and SANADA use six man success to propel themselves to an IWGP tag title shot?
1st Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Tomohiro Ishii vs BULLET CLUB (EVIL, Taiji Ishimori, El Phantasmo, Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi)
A star studded ten man tag will kick off the night as Hiroshi Tanahashi joins a CHAOS team of SHO, Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI to face EVIL, Yujiro Takahashi, Chase Owens, Taiji Ishimori and El Phantasmo of BULLET CLUB. With competition hot for a precious few spots at the top in New Japan right now, eyes will be on names like EVIL and Hiroshi Tanahashi as they try and establish themselves back at the front line of competition. Then there are the junior heavyweights in this match. El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori could both just as easily move to challenge the winner of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match later on in the night, or seek to reclaim their IWGP Jr. heavy tag titles once YOH is free of his commitments with El Desperado, successful or not.
Should that tag challenge be made, SHO would be more than willing to accept, but his eyes will also be on the junior heavyweight title match at Dominion, especially as challenger YOH has promised the first shot to his tag team partner should he prove successful. With a lot of moving parts, you can’t take your eyes off Dominion from the opening bell Monday!
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