NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING (NJPW)’S DOMINION 6.9 2024 Results & Review BY rYAN bALKWILL

Promotion: New Japan Pro Wrestling

Date: June 9, 2024

City: OsakaJapan

Venue: Osaka-Jo Hall

TV station/network: TV Asahi

Commentary by: Yohei OnishiHiroki MikamiShinji YoshinoMilano Collection AT & Hiromu Takahashi

Overall Show Score: 7/10

Pros: Jeff Cobb keep his NJPW World TV Championship. TMDK became double champions. Jon Moxley successfully still the World Heavyweight Champion & El Desperado winning the Best of the Super Jr. 31 Tournament.

Cons: shame that Shingo TakagiHenare match ended In a draw. & the layout for the first half of this event I didn’t enjoy all that much.

Matches:

Singles Match:                                                                                                                      

Tetsuya Naito

vs.

Callum Newman.          Winner: Tetsuya Naito won by pinfall.                                                                           Rating: Descent

6-Man Tag Team Match:                                                                                                                                                                                         

TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr. and Ichiban Sweet Boys (Robbie Eagles and Kosei Fujita))

vs 

Bullet Club War Dogs (Clark Connors and Drilla Moloney) and LJ Cleary.         Winners: TMDK & Ichiban Sweet Boys Won by pinfall.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Rating: Fine

Storm Catch Rules match for the KOPW Championship, The rules were that there was only usage of two rope breaks, and a 15-minute time limit.                                    

Yuya Uemura (c)

vs.

Great-O-Khan.                                                                                                                                                                                Winner: Great-O-Khan won back the KOPW Championship by pinfall.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Rating: Underwhelming

Six-man tag team match for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship:                                                                          

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Oleg Boltin & Toru Yano (c)

vs.

Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Yota Tsuji).                                             Winners: Los Ingobernables de Japon won the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship by pinfall.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Rating: Meh

Singles match for the NJPW World Television Championship:                                                                                                                         

Jeff Cobb (c)

vs 

Tomohiro Ishii.                                                                                                                                                 Winner: Jeff Cobb keep his NJPW World TV Championship by pinfall                                                                                                                                                                Rating: Good

Four-way tornado tag team elimination Winners Take All match for both the IWGP Tag Team Championship and Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship:              

Bullet Club (Kenta and Chase Owens) (IWGP Tag Team)

vs. 

Guerrillas of Destiny (El Phantasmo and Hikuleo) (Strong Openweight Tag Team) (with Jado),   

vs. 

Bishamon (Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi)

vs. 

TMDK (Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste).                                                                                                                                                              Winners: TMDK won by pinfall.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Rating: Good

Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship:                                                                                                                     

Shingo Takagi (c)

vs. 

Henare.                                                                                                                                                                                             Winner: Draw                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Rating: Great

Lumberjack Deathmatch for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship:                                                                                                             

Jon Moxley (c)

vs. 

Evil (with House of Torture (Ren NaritaYoshinobu KanemaruYujiro Takahashi and Dick Togo)).                                                                          Winner: Jon Moxley kept his IWGP World Heavyweight Championship by pinfall.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Rating: Really Good  

Main Event:

Best of the Super Jr. 31 tournament final:                                                                                                                                           

El Desperado 

vs. 

Taiji Ishimori.                                                                                                                                                                                              Winner: El Desperado won the Best of the Super Jr. 31 Tournament.                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Rating: Great

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