IT WAS DUBBED ‘THE REMATCH OF THE CENTURY’ AND IT CERTAINLY LIVED UP TO THAT AS OKADA AND OMEGA WANTED TO GAIN ‘DOMINION‘ OVER ONE ANOTHER.
In another match of the year candidate, Kazuchika Okada and Kenny Omega went to a staggering SIXTY MINUTE time limit draw in a front of capacity crowd in Osaka, Japan. The draw does mean that the IWGP Heavyweight Title stays with ‘The Rainmaker’ but it now leaves the wrestling world clambering for the third chapter in his now legendary rivalry.
Elbow drop! #NJPW #njdominion pic.twitter.com/L1PgcroHaf
— LARIATOOOO!!! (@MrLARIATO) June 11, 2017
There was also FOUR new champions crowned tonight with Hiroshi Tanahashi defeating Tetsuya Naito to capture the IWGP Intercontinental Title and 2017 Best Of The Super Juniors winner KUSHIDA defeated Hiromu Takahashi to capture the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, only for BUSHI to come out post-match and mist KUSHIDA, stating his intentions for that title.
The toxic mist of BUSHI! #NJPW #njdominion pic.twitter.com/mtR9y9Lmea
— LARIATOOOO!!! (@MrLARIATO) June 11, 2017
The Bullet Club got all their tag gold back as Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Roa) defeated War Machine (Hanson and Raymond Rowe) to regain the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and The Young Bucks beat Roppongi Vice to win their sixth IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title via submission.
Minoru Suzuki beat Hiroki Goto in a brutal lumberjack death match to keep his NEVER Openweight Title, and in a gauntlet match for the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Titles, The Los Ingobernables de Japon trio of BUSHI, EVIL and Sanada bested Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Hangman Page and Yujiro Takahashi), CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano and YOSHI-HASHI), Suzuki-Gun (Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Zack Sabre Jr.) and Taguchi Japan (Juice Robinson, Ricochet and Ryusuke Taguchi) to retain their belts.
In a special singles match, ‘The American Nightmare’ Cody defeated Michael Elgin and in our multi-man tag of the main programme, Tiger Mask, Tiger Mask W, Togi Makabe and Yuji Nagata beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Jushin Thunder Liger, Manabu Nakanishi and Satoshi Kojima in eight-man tag team action.
Standing moonsault from Tiger Mask W! #NJPW #njdominion pic.twitter.com/kuecH46v3v
— LARIATOOOO!!! (@MrLARIATO) June 11, 2017
Finally, in the pre-show contest the team of David Finlay, Shota Umino and Tomoyuki Oka defeated Hirai Kawato, Katsuya Kitamura and Tetsuhiro Yagi.