DOMINION, New Japan’s annual June Osaka blowout event, is now in the books.
Today’s event was held at Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka and can be watched on demand OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY on New Japan World. This event aired live as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE 2025 exclusively on TV Asahi in Japan.
The announced paid attendance was 6525.
Pre-show match: Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato beat Daiki Nagai & Masatora Yasuda. Murashima pinned Yasuda.
Match 1: Don Fale (Bad Luck Fale), Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita & Sanada beat Taiji iIshimori, Clark Connors, Chase Owens & Drilla Moloney. SANADA pinned Moloney after a guitar shot. At the end of the match, Owens turned on his teammates and defected to House of Torture. (For those curious, Don Fale is not Fale’s real name)
Match 2: Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat El Phantasmo & Shota Umino. Sabre pinned Umino with a European clutch.
Match 3: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Yuya Uemura.
Match 4: DOUKI & Sho beat IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Master Wato & Yoh to win the titles. DOUKI & Sho become the 79th IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.. DOUKI beat Wato with a modified figure 4. This was to have been Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Sho challenging but Kanemaru was out with an apparent right arm injury. DOUKI was the replacement as he returned from a long injury absence AND defected to House Of Torture. So now Just 4 Guys are presumably Just 3 Guys.
Match 5: Taichi & Tomohiro Ishii beat IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan to win the titles. Taichi & Ishii become the 110th IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Taichi pinned Newman after Black Mephisto.
Match 6: Boltin Oleg beat NEVER Openweight Champion Konosuke Takeshita to win the title. Oleg becomes the 48th NEVER Openweight Champion. UPSET ALERT!!!
Match 7: In a Dog Collar Chain Deathmatch, EVIL beat David Finlay by TKO.
Match 8: Gabriel Kidd beat IWGP Global Champion Yota Tsuji to win the title. Kidd becomes the 5th IWGP Global Champion. Next/first up: If Kidd has his way, Tanahashi. He wants the soon-retiring Ace.
Main Event: IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Hirooki Goto beat Shingo Takagi to retain the title. V7 for Goto. Next up: If the cameramen gave us any clue post-match, possibly Sabre.
The next event is Wednesday at Aomori Budokan in Aomori to start the New Japan Soul 2025 tour. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.
UPDATE: Kidd gets his wish-it’s now official. Tanahashi is next. That match will happen on 7/4 at Tokyo Budokan in Tokyo.
Goto-Sabre for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship is now official as well. That match will happen at TANAHASHI JAM on 6/29 at Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya, which will be the last event ever in the iconic wrestling & sumo venue before it closes. Note that 6/29 WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE ON NEW JAPAN WORLD. It will be available only in Japan exclusively on TV Asahi. NEW NEVER Openweight Champion Boltin Oleg will also make his first title defense on 6/29, which appears to be against Yuji Nagata, and NJPW WORLD TV Champion El Phantasmo will defend the title vs. TBA (open challenge).
