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 on New Japan World OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY. This event aired as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE ’24 on TV Asahi in Japan.
The announced paid attendance was 7254. If that’s not their best attendance this year, excluding Tokyo Dome, it’s close.
Match 1; Tetsuya Naito beat Callum Newman.
Match 2: Kosei Fujita, Zack Sabre Jr. & Robbie Eagles beat LJ Cleary (Pro Wrestling NOAH), Drilla Moloney & Clark Connors. Sabre pinned Cleary after Zack Driver.
Match 3: In a Storm Catch Rules match (no strikes allowed), Great-O-Khan beat KOPW 2024 Champion Yuya Uemura to win the title.
Match 4: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Yota Tsuji beat NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the titles. BUSHI, Takahashi & Tsuji become the 28th NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Tsuji pinned Tanahashi after Gene Blaster.
Match 5: NJPW WORLD TV Champion Jeff Cobb beat Tomohiro Ishii to retain the title. V2 for Cobb.
Match 6: In a 4-way elimination match, Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls beat IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Chase Owens & KENTA, STRONG Tag Team Champions El Phantasmo & Hikuleo and YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto to win the titles. Haste & Nicholls become the 104th IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and the 9th STRONG Tag Team Champions.
Match 7: NEVER Openweight Champion Shingo Takagi vs. HENARE went to a draw. Double KO. As a result, Takagi retains the title. V3 for Takagi.
Match 8: In a Lumberjack Death Match, IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jon Moxley beat EVIL to retain the title. V4 for Moxley. Next up: Possibly a Naito rematch at the AEW Forbidden Door PPV at the end of the month in the US.
Main Event: Best Of The Super Junior 31 Finals: El Desperado beat Taiji Ishimori to win the tournament. It’s the first BOSJ title for Desperado. As a result, Desperado will face IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Sho for the title in the future. Afterwards, Desperado proposed a steel cage match for that title shot.
The next event is DESPE Invitacional, an El Desperado produced event, tomorrow at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on New Japan World as a PPV for $22.99 US will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM PT. (Last-minute update: You can also watch the pre-show FOR FREE on YouTube) Also coming up this week is a public press conference & Ryohei Oiwa talk event Friday at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kita Yell in Hokkaido, then on Saturday is the next ALL TOGETHER event for Noto Peninsula earthquake disaster relief efforts. That event will be a PPV only on ABEMA.
The next tour is the NEW JAPAN SOUL 2024 Tour beginning on 6/16 in Hokkaido. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin Saturday at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. After that will be the next US event in July, CMLL FANTASTICA MANIA USA, followed by the big one-the G1 CLIMAX 34 Tournament-which officially begins the road to Tokyo Dome 2025.
