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Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall
Promotion
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
DateJune 19, 2016[1]
CityOsaka, Japan[1]
VenueOsaka-jō Hall[1]
Attendance9,925[2]
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Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on June 19, 2016, in Osaka, Osaka, at the Osaka-jō Hall and was the eighth event under the Dominion name and second in a row to take place at the Osaka-jō Hall.

The event featured ten matches with six of NJPW's seven

Kushida successfully defending the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against 2016 Best of the Super Juniors winner Will Ospreay
. All in all, the event featured five title changes.

Production

Background

In July 2015, NJPW returned to the

Live Viewing Japan.[6][7]

Storylines

Tetsuya Naito, who defended the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in the main event

Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall featured ten professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[8]

Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall was main evented by

Sanada,[9] which led to the continuation of a storyline rivalry between L.I.J. and Okada's Chaos stable over the next tour.[10] On May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2016, Naito made his first successful defense of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Chaos member Tomohiro Ishii. After the match, Okada, who had defeated L.I.J. member Sanada earlier in the event, entered the ring and had a staredown with Naito, indicating he wanted the next title shot.[11][12] The match was made official for Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall three days later.[13][14] Naito invited NJPW owner Takaaki Kidani to come witness the match,[12] having earlier accused him of being in cahoots with Okada.[15] Naito claimed that his L.I.J. stablemate Evil was a more worthy title contender than Okada and suspected that Kidani had secured Okada the title shot at Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall.[16] Naito noted the surge in his popularity over the past year, comparing the reception he had gotten during NJPW's 2015 North American tour to the one had gotten during the May 2016 tour and claimed he was now more popular than Okada.[17] He confronted Kidani on May 18 at an expo in Singapore and again invited him to Dominion 6.19 to witness his popularity.[18] On the tour leading to Dominion 6.19, Naito got the best of Okada with help from his L.I.J. stablemates. However, days prior to the event, Naito stated that he would agree to arrive to the match without his stablemates by his side as long as Okada also agreed to arrive without his manager Gedo by his side.[19]

Kenny Omega, who defended the IWGP Intercontinental Championship in NJPW's first-ever ladder match

Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall was also scheduled to feature a

low, raised a ladder on top of him and climbed on top of it, before stating that he never wanted to face Tanahashi again.[23] After the match at Wrestling Dontaku 2016, Tanahashi repeated his challenge. Initially, Omega again turned down the challenge, but then added that if Tanahashi agreed to a ladder match, he would grant him the title shot. The two climbed up on the opposite sides of a ladder and shook hands to set the match up,[11] which was made official three days later.[13] This would mark the first-ever ladder match in NJPW history.[14][24]

On May 21, Omega and Bullet Club attacked Tanahashi with a ladder and chairs, after which Tanahashi was pulled from the rest of the tour with a left shoulder avulsion fracture and a biceps tear.[25] The angle was set up to cover for a legitimate injury Tanahashi had suffered earlier in the month and give him time to recover before Dominion 6.19.[26] However, on June 3, Tanahashi announced he would be forced to miss Dominion 6.19 due to his injury.[27][28] This led to Michael Elgin, who had been working opposite Omega in Tanahashi's absence, stepping up and volunteering to take Tanahashi's place in the ladder match.[29] Omega and Elgin had previously faced off on April 27, when Omega successfully defended the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against Elgin in the first all-Canadian NJPW main event.[30] Elgin had a ladder match history, having worked matches with the stipulation in 2006 and 2008.[31] Initially, Omega rejected Elgin as Tanahashi's replacement,[31] but changed his mind after being pinned by Elgin in a tag team match on June 7.[32] The match was made official the following day.[33]

Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall also featured

strong style" wrestling, which in his mind was fading away from NJPW. He added that it was time for NJPW to show that no one outside of the promotion could embody the style, referring to the "King of Strong Style" Shinsuke Nakamura, who had recently left the promotion for WWE.[34]

Will Ospreay, the winner of the 2016 Best of the Super Juniors, who challenged for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship at the event

On June 7,

Kushida to a title match. Kushida accepted the challenge, stating he wanted to find out who was the strongest between the two.[32] The match was made official for Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall the next day.[33] Kushida and Ospreay had previously met at April's Invasion Attack 2016, where Kushida retained the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Ospreay in his NJPW debut match.[9]

During the final day of the 2016 Best of the Super Juniors, the reigning

Beretta and Rocky Romero) to set up a three-way match for the title at Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall.[32] All six men had taken part in the Best of the Super Juniors tournament with Sydal, O'Reilly and Romero in Block A and Ricochet, Fish and Beretta in Block B.[35] In the head-to-head matches, Sydal defeated both O'Reilly and Romero,[36][37] finishing second in his block with ten points,[35] while Romero defeated O'Reilly with both finishing at eight points.[38] In Block B, Ricochet and Fish finished tied second in the block at 8 points,[35] with Ricochet defeating both Fish and Beretta,[39][40] who finished last in the block with six points with a loss to Fish.[35][41] The following day, NJPW announced that The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson), who had missed the Best of the Super Juniors due to injuries,[42] would be added to the match, after the two had sent a video from the United States, making a title challenge. Following a suggestion made by The Young Bucks, the match was also changed to an elimination format.[33]

The rest of the matches for Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall were announced on June 8,

Hangman Page, who joined the stable during the War of the Worlds tour.[33] In the pre-show match, Jay White would make his final NJPW appearance before leaving on an indefinite learning excursion to ROH.[46]

Event

The Briscoe Brothers after winning the IWGP Tag Team Championship at the event

The first title match of the show featured Matt Sydal and Ricochet defending the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in a four-way elimination match. The match featured an added stipulation where a team could be eliminated by throwing them over the top rope out of the ring. After both Roppongi Vice and reDRagon had been eliminated via over-the-top tope eliminations, Matt Jackson pinned Sydal after the Meltzer Driver to win the title for The Young Bucks for a record-breaking fifth time.[47][48] The next match saw Kushida retain the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship in a match against the 2016 Best of the Super Juniors winner Will Ospreay by submitting his challenger with the Hoverboard Lock.[47] This marked Kushida's fifth successful title defense.[49]

The third title match saw the Briscoe Brothers defeat Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa to become the new IWGP Tag Team Champions. Afterwards, the new champions were attacked by Tonga and Loa's Bullet Club stablemates Hangman Page and Yujiro Takahashi, who asserted themselves as their first challengers.[47][50] The next match featured another title change as Katsuyori Shibata defeated Yuji Nagata to regain the NEVER Openweight Championship.[51] Afterwards, Nagata endorsed Shibata as Shinsuke Nakamura's "strong style" successor. Meanwhile, Tomoaki Honma expressed his interest in being Shibata's first title challenger.[52]

In the main event, Kazuchika Okada won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship for the fourth time

The semi-main event of the show featured Kenny Omega defending the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against Michael Elgin in NJPW's first-ever ladder match. Omega was accompanied to the match by Hangman Page and Yujiro Takahashi as opposed to his usual partners The Young Bucks. However, before the match referee Red Shoes Unno found The Young Bucks hiding under the ring and ejected all four from ringside. All four, however, eventually returned and handcuffed Elgin to the ring ropes. After a failed attempt to even the odds from Captain New Japan and Yoshitatsu, Matt Sydal came out to distract Bullet Club, while Ricochet dove onto them from the ring. As Omega went to climb the ladder to grab the title belt to win the match, Elgin broke free of the handcuffs and tipped over the ladder with Omega falling out of the ring onto the wrestlers outside. Elgin then climbed the ladder and grabbed the belt to become the new IWGP Intercontinental Champion.[47][51][53]

In the main event Tetsuya Naito defended the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Kazuchika Okada. As per pre-match agreement, the match was kept one-on-one with neither Okada's manager Gedo nor Naito's L.I.J. stablemates being involved. The match ended with Okada hitting Naito with three Rainmakers to become the new IWGP Heavyweight Championship.[47][54] With Chaos also defeating L.I.J. in both of the undercard matches on the show, this meant a clean 3–0 sweep for the Chaos stable.[51] Okada won the title for the fourth time, while Naito's two-month reign ended in his second title defense.[55]

Reception

Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter wrote that the last three matches of the show were all "excellent and completely different", giving the main event four and a half stars out of five, the IWGP Intercontinental Championship match four and three quarter stars and the NEVER Openweight Championship match four and a quarter stars. He, however, criticized some of the booking decisions, such as taking the IWGP Heavyweight Championship off Tetsuya Naito after just 70 days and Will Ospreay losing to Kushida for the second title match in a row. Meltzer also called for the merger of the two tag team divisions, stating that the fans in attendance did not care about the match between the Guerrillas of Destiny and the Briscoe Brothers and would not care about the upcoming match between the Briscoe Brothers and the team of Hangman Page and Yujiro Takahashi.[56]

James Caldwell of Pro Wrestling Torch gave the main event four and a quarter stars and the IWGP Intercontinental Championship match four and a half stars out of five.[51] Sean Radican, also of Pro Wrestling Torch, gave the show a score of 9.0, writing "[t]he main highlight of this show was the last three matches which ranged from very good to excellent".[57]

Results

No.Results
The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) defeated Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) (c)
Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship14:02
8Katsuyori Shibata defeated Yuji Nagata (c) (with Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Manabu Nakanishi and Satoshi Kojima)Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship14:53
9Michael Elgin defeated Kenny Omega (c) (with Hangman Page and Yujiro Takahashi)Ladder match for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship33:32
10Kazuchika Okada defeated Tetsuya Naito (c)Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship28:58
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
P – the match was broadcast on the pre-show

Tag team elimination match

Elimination Wrestler Team Eliminated by Elimination move Time Ref.
1 Rocky Romero Roppongi Vice Nick Jackson Tossed over the top rope 08:17 [2]
2 Bobby Fish reDRagon Matt Sydal Tossed over the top rope 09:26 [2]
3 Matt Sydal Matt Sydal and Ricochet (c) Matt Jackson Pinned after a Meltzer Driver 15:23 [2]
Winners: The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) (New IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions)

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