Full Dominion Card Announced
New Japan Pro Wrestling will be presenting their biggest show since January’s Wrestle Kingdom. Dominion will air live on NJPWWorld.com at 3am EDT on 6/9.
The show will be headlined with a rematch from last year’s Dominion, as Kazuchika Okada will defend his IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Kenny Omega. To avoid last year’s Time Limit Draw, the match will be fought under No Time Limit Best Of Three Rules. Kenny Omega has been training with his lover Kota Ibushi, saying that having the power of love on his side will help him win the match. Okada has been fishing.
Also on the card is a huge showdown between IWGP Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion Tetsuya Naito will take on former WWE Intercontinental Champion Chris Jericho. Jericho instigated the rivalry between the two, attacking Naito at January 5th’s New Year’s Dash event. Jericho then attacked Tetsuya Naito in Fukuoka. Naito’s Intercontinental Championship will be on the line.
Four other title matches are set for Saturday morning’s giant supercard.
Correction: This initially said “Sunday” instead of “Saturday” apologies for the error.
- IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match: Suzuki-gun (El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) (c) vs. Roppongi 3K (Sho & Yoh)
- David Finlay & Juice Robinson vs. CHAOS (Jay White & YOSHI-HASHI)
- CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano) vs. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki & Zack Sabre Jr.)
- NEVER Openweight Championship Match: Hirooki Goto (c) vs. Taichi vs. Michael Elgin
- IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match: Los Ingobernables de Japon (EVIL & SANADA) (c) vs. The Young Bucks (Nick Jackson & Matt Jackson)
- Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jushin Thunder Liger & Rey Mysterio vs. Bullet Club (Cody, Hangman Page & Marty Scurll)
- IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship Match: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi
- IWGP Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship Match: Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Chris Jericho.
- IWGP Heavyweight Championship No Time Limit Best Of Three Falls Match: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kenny Omega.
Dominion Card set for June 9! Naito v Jericho, Okada v Omega make a double main event! Six title matches! Rey Mysterio in action for the first time in NJPW!#njpw #njdominionhttps://t.co/dDUznmdlkP pic.twitter.com/4oPC6R1dcn
— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) June 6, 2018
Best Of Super Jr. Finals Need To Watch Ratings
FIRST MATCH: Shota Umino & Tiger Mask IV vs. Flip Gordon & Chris Sabin
Need To Watch Rating: (4.5)
SECOND MATCH: CHAOS (Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI) vs. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, TAKA Michinoku & Takashi Iizuka)
Need To Watch Rating: (3.0)
THIRD MATCH: CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, Sho & Yoh) vs. Suzuki-gun (Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado)
Need To Watch Rating: (5.1)
FOURTH MATCH: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Toa Henare vs. Bullet Club (Yujiro Takahashi & Marty Scurll)
Need To Watch Rating: (4.0)
FIFTH MATCH: Taguchi Japan (Ryusuke Taguchi, Dragon Lee, ACH & KUSHIDA) vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, SANADA, EVIL & Tetsuya Naito)
Need To Watch Rating: (6.0)
SIXTH MATCH: CHAOS (Will Ospreay & Kazuchika Okada) vs. Kota Ibushi & Chase Owens
Need To Watch Rating: (7.2)
MAIN EVENT: Best Of Super Juniors 25 Final Match: Hiromu Takahashi vs. Taiji Ishimori
Need To Watch Rating: (10.5)- New Record
Kojima Update
Leader of Bread Club and former IWGP Heavyweight Champion Satoshi Kojima took to twitter to complain about a lack of sleep, and an inability to train at night.
Good evening or morning. In fact, I hardly sleep. After all, the training at night is not good for uncle? I can’t get tired, what am I going to do? I’m drinking coffee. I want to eat some bread (;´д｀).
こんばんはorおはようございます。
実はほとんど寝てません。
やはり、夜のトレーニングはオジサンには良くないのか？
疲れも取れないし、どうしよう。
コーヒーばっか飲んでるし…
なんか、パンが食べたくなってきた(;´д｀)。
— 小島 聡【SATOSHI KOJIMA】 (@cozy_lariat) June 6, 2018
NEXT PAGE: Back Page Editorial
