NJPW Dominion

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Dominion
Promotions New Japan Pro-Wrestling
First event Dominion 6.20

Dominion is an annual professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event has been held annually since 2009 as a pay-per-view (PPV). From 2013 to 2014, the event also aired outside Japan as an Internet pay-per-view (iPPV). Since 2015, the event has aired worldwide on NJPW's Internet streaming site, NJPW World. Dominion is the first major event following the Best of the Super Juniors tournament and usually includes a match, where the tournament winner challenges for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, assuming the champion has not won the tournament. In recent years, Dominion has developed into one of NJPW's showcase events and it is considered the biggest event since the January 4 Dome Show. [1] The first six Dominions took place in June. In 2015, the event was moved to July, but was moved back to June the following year. Originally the event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium (also known as Bodymaker Colosseum) until 2014; since 2015, the event has been held at Osaka-jō Hall. The 2020 event was scheduled to be held on June 14 but was postponed to July 12 to allow the rescheduled New Japan Cup to take place, this is the first time since 2015 that Dominion took place in July.

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Events

#EventDateCityVenueAttendanceMain eventRef(s)
1 Dominion 6.20 June 20, 2009 Osaka, Japan Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium 5,800 Manabu Nakanishi (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship [2] [3]
2 Dominion 6.19 June 19, 20105,500 Togi Makabe (c) vs. Go Shiozaki for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship [4] [5]
3 Dominion 6.18 June 18, 20116,200 Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Hirooki Goto for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship [6] [7]
4 Dominion 6.16 June 16, 2012 Bodymaker Colosseum 6,850 Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship [8] [9]
5 Dominion 6.22 June 22, 20137,240 Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Togi Makabe for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship [10] [11] [12] [13]
6 Dominion 6.21 June 21, 20147,300 Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Bad Luck Fale for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship [14] [15] [16]
7 Dominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall July 5, 2015 Osaka-jō Hall 11,400 A.J. Styles (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship [17] [18] [19] [20]
8 Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall June 19, 20169,925 Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship [21] [22] [23]
9 Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall June 11, 201711,756 Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kenny Omega for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship [24] [25] [26]
10 Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall (2018) June 9, 201811,832 Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kenny Omega in a no time limit two out of three falls match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship [27]
11 Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall (2019) June 9, 201911,901 Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Chris Jericho for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship [28]
12 Dominion 7.12 in Osaka-jo Hall July 12, 20203,898 [lower-alpha 1] Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Evil for both the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the IWGP Intercontinental Championship [29]
13 Dominion 6.6 in Osaka-jo Hall June 7, 2021 [lower-alpha 2] 3,045 Kazuchika Okada vs. Shingo Takagi for the vacant IWGP World Heavyweight Championship [31] [32]
14 Dominion 6.12 in Osaka-jo Hall June 12, 20226,068 Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Jay White for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship [33] [34]
15 Dominion 6.4 in Osaka-jo Hall June 4, 20237,040 Sanada (c) vs. Yota Tsuji for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship [35]
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

Notes

  1. ↑ Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, the arena was limited to one-third capacity.
  2. ↑ Originally scheduled for June 6, the event was postponed by a day to reflect changes to the state of emergency in place in Osaka (due to the COVID-19 pandemic). [30]

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