Dominion 6.22
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 Promotional poster for the event, featuring Kazuchika Okada, Togi Makabe, Shinsuke Nakamura and Hiroshi Tanahashi | ||||
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| Promotion | New Japan Pro Wrestling | |||
| Date | June 22, 2013[1] | |||
| Attendance | 7,240[1] | |||
| Venue | Bodymaker Colosseum[1] | |||
| City | Osaka, Japan[1] | |||
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Dominion 6.22 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on June 22, 2013, in Osaka, Osaka, at the Bodymaker Colosseum. The event featured ten matches (including one dark match), four of which were contested for championships.[1][2][3][4] It was the fifth event under the Dominion name.
Production
Storylines
Dominion 6.22 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.[5]
Event
The event featured a special three-way tag team match, where IWGP Tag Team Champions Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima) faced GHC Tag Team Champions Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano and NWA World Tag Team Champions K.E.S. (Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer), though only the IWGP title was on the line.[1] As part of the newly revived relationship between NJPW and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), the event featured the second time Rob Conway defended the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in a NJPW ring.[1] During the event, Tetsuya Naito wrestled his first match since King of Pro-Wrestling in October 2012, defeating former No Limit partner Yujiro Takahashi, who in storyline had caused his knee injury.[1] In the semi-main event, Prince Devitt defeated rival Hiroshi Tanahashi to earn his first shot at the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, held by Kazuchika Okada, who retained the title against Togi Makabe in the main event.[1] Following his win, Okada accepted Devitt's challenge on the condition that he first defend his IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Okada's manager Gedo.[1]
Results
| No. | Results[1][2][3][4] | Stipulations | Times[1] |
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| 1D | Suzuki-gun (Taichi and Taka Michinoku) defeated Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask | Tag team match | 07:09 |
| 2 | Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero) (c) defeated Time Splitters (Alex Shelley and Kushida) | Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship | 13:09 |
| 3 | Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Karl Anderson and Tama Tonga) defeated Captain New Japan, Tomoaki Honma and Yuji Nagata | Six-man tag team match | 08:19 |
| 4 | Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima) (c) defeated Chaos (Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano) and K.E.S. (Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer) | Three-way tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship | 11:50 |
| 5 | Rob Conway (c) (with Bruce Tharpe) defeated Manabu Nakanishi | Singles match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship | 08:32 |
| 6 | Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki and Shelton X Benjamin) (with Taichi) defeated Chaos (Shinsuke Nakamura and Tomohiro Ishii) | Tag team match | 12:36 |
| 7 | Tetsuya Naito defeated Yujiro Takahashi (with Ami Kasai and Ririsu Ayaka) | Singles match | 15:01 |
| 8 | Katsuyori Shibata defeated Hirooki Goto | Singles match | 13:16 |
| 9 | Prince Devitt (with Bad Luck Fale, Karl Anderson and Tama Tonga) defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi | Singles match to determine the number one contender to the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 15:33 |
| 10 | Kazuchika Okada (c) (with Gedo) defeated Togi Makabe | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 25:04 |
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References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Dominion 6.22". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved October 18, 2013.
- 1 2 "新日本プロレス「Dominion 6.22」". Sports Navi (in Japanese). Yahoo!. June 22, 2013. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
- 1 2 Namako, Jason (June 22, 2013). "6/22 NJPW iPPV Results: Osaka, Japan (Okada/Makabe)". Wrestleview. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
- 1 2 "Show results - 6/22 NJPW Dominion iPPV: Devitt vs. Tanahashi, NWA Title defended, Benjamin, Hoyt, Shelley, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. June 22, 2013. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
- ↑ Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Retrieved September 13, 2014.