New Japan today holds DOMINION, their annual June Osaka blowout event, which takes on more significance this year as it also will help set up the Forbidden Door PPV with All Elite Wrestling in 2 weeks-in addition to 5 title matches, an Interim AEW World Championship opportunity at Forbidden Door is on the line for Hiroshi Tanahashi and Hirooki Goto. In the main event, Kazuchika Okada looks to continue his impressive reign as IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, but his next challenger is his toughest yet-Jay White, who is 3-1 against Okada in singles matches. Will Rainmaker go into Chicago as champion or will Switchblade back up his claim that it is “Still My Era”?
A last-minute change to the card was announced earlier today as IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Juice Robinson has been STRIPPED of the title because he will miss this event after previously agreeing to defend the title. Robinson is claiming appendicitis will prevent him from competing. He was to have defended against SANADA & Will Ospreay in a 3-way. Robinson proposed their now-singles match be to determine the next challenger to the title, but NJPW instead has made it so the SANADA-Ospreay winner becomes the new champion.
Today’s event will be held at Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka, Jpaan and can be watched LIVE on New Japan World in Japanese and English.
Today’s lineup:
Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Aaron Henare, Francesco Akira & TJP
Hiromu Takahashi, Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI vs. Taiji Ishimori, Ace Austin & El Phantasmo
Toru Yano vs. Doc Gallows
NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Zack Sabre Jr. & El Desperado for the titles
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Chase Owens & Bad Luck Fale vs. Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan for the titles
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hirooki Goto. The winner will face Jon Mosley for the Interim AEW World Championship at Forbidden Door
KOPW 2022 Trophy Holder Shingo Takagi vs. Taichi in a 10 Minute Unlimited Falls Match for the trophy. Whoever gets the most cumulative counts (in seconds) on pinfalls in 10 minutes wins. No 3 count pinfalls, submissions, countouts or DQs
NEVER Openweight Champion Tama Tonga vs. Karl Anderson for the title
SANADA vs. Will Ospreay for the vacant IWGP US Heavyweight Championship
IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White for the title
Refresh occasionally for the latest results.
Updates below will begin at 1 AM ET/10 PM PT.
9:45 PM PT UPDATE: The stream started early for some pre-match entertainment, so…
We are LIVE from Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka, Japan. Some pre-event annoucnements are being made. This went for about 5 minutes before we cut away, back into pre-show mode.
The matches will begin just after 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.
This broadcast is part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE on TV Asahi in Japan. We have the major-event English announcer along with the usual Japanese announcers. Jushin Thunder Liger is our guest on Japanese commentary.
The announced paid attendance was 6068. If capacity limits were still in place (Osaka has been stricter than other places during the pandemic), this suggests 50% maximum, in which case this would have been possibly a full house/near-sellout and in the 85-90% full range.
Match 1: Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi (with Manabu Nakanishi, former IWGP Heavyweight Champion) vs. Aaron Henare, Francesco Akira & TJP. 20 minute itme limit
Result: Aaron Henare, Francesco Akira & TJP beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi. Henare beat Tenzan with a rear neck lock.
Match 2: Hiromu Takahashi, Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI vs. Taiji Ishimori, Ace Austin & El Phantasmo. 20 minute time limit
Result: Taiji Ishimori, Ace Austin & El Phantasmo beat Hiromu Takahashi, Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI. Phantasmo pinned BUSHI after CR 2.
Match 3: Toru Yano vs. Doc Gallows. 30 minute time limit
Result: Toru Yano beat Doc Gallows
Match 4: NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Zack Sabre Jr. & El Desperado for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: NEER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Zack Sabre Jr., Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado to retain the titles. Sho pinned Desperado after Shock Arrow. V4 for the champs.
Match 5: IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Chase Owens & Bad Luck Fale vs. Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan beat IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Chase Owens & Bad Luck Fale to win the titles. Cobb & Khan become the 95th IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Cobb pinned Owens after Tour of the Islands. Afterwards, Rocky Romero made the mistake of a sneak attack on the new champs and got obliterated.
It is announced that the G1 CLIMAX 32 Tournament will have a total of 28 participants. And it’s time to meet them! They are…Kazuchika Okada (3-time winner and defending champion), Tama Tonga, Hiroshi Tanahashi (3-time champion, 21st straight participation), Tom Lawlor, Jonah, YOSHI-HASHI, HIrooki Goto (2008 champion), Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii, Jeff Cobb, Great-O-Khan, Will Ospreay, Aaron Henare, Shingo Takagi, SANADA, Tetsuya Naito (2-time champion), Jay White, EVIL, KENTA, Yujiro Takahashi, Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens, Juice Robinson, Taichi, Zack Sabre Jr., Lance Archer (All Elite Wrestling), David Finlay, El Phantasmo. They will be divided into 4 blocks of 7. The Finals will be on 8/17 & 8/18 at Nippon budokan in Tokyo.
Intermission. Updates will resume in a few minutes (as of 11:35 PM PT).
11:39 PM PT…And we’re back!
Match 6: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hirooki Goto. The winner will face Jon Moxley for the Interim AEW World Championship at Forbidden Door on 6/26. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Hirooki Goto. As a result, Tanahashi will face Jon Moxley for the Interim AEW World Championship at Forbidden Door
Match 7: KOPW 2022 Trophy Holder Shingo Takagi vs. Taichi (with Miho Abe) in a 10 Minute Unlimited Falls Match for the trophy. Whoever gets the most cumulative counts (in seconds) on pinfalls in 10 minutes wins. No 3 count pinfalls, submissions, countouts or DQs
Result: KOPW 2022 holder SHingo Takagi beat Taichi 11-10 to retain the trophy.
Match 8: NEVER Openweight Champion Tama Tonga vs. Karl Anderson for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Karl Anderson beat NEVER Openweight Champion Tama Tonga to win the title. Anderson becomes the 37th NEVER Openweight Champion.
Match 9: SANADA vs. Will Ospreay for the vacant IWGP US Heavyweight Championship. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Will Ospreay beat SANADA to win the vacant IWGP US Heavyweight Championship. Ospreay becomes the 16th IWGP US Heavyweight Champion. But Juice Robinson still has the title belt and they had no replacement.
Hiroshi Tanahashi joins Japanese commentary for the final match.
Main Event: IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Jay White beat IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada to win the title. White becomes the 5th IWGP World Heavyweight Champion. And the biggest loser in all of this is one Adam Page. He wanted Okada for the title at Forbidden Door. Now it’s not happening. Adam Cole will be gloating about it on AEW Dynamite next week.
The next event is the New Japan Road (formerly Kizuna Road) Tour opener Thursday at Tochigi Cultural Center in Tochigi. It will not be televised and on demand video will not be available. The next broadcast is Saturday at Esforta Arena Hachioji in Tokyo. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. Also, a FREE broadcast is coming up on 6/20 at Korakuen Hall.
