Dominion 6.18 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on June 18, 2011, in Osaka, Osaka, at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. The event featured ten matches, five of which were contested for championships.[1][2][3] It was the third event under the Dominion name.
Production[]
Storylines[]
Dominion 6.18 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.[4]
Event[]
The event featured a tag team match, where NJPW's IWGP Tag Team Champions, Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson), defeated Pro Wrestling Noah's GHC Tag Team Champions, Takuma Sano and Yoshihiro Takayama, to become double champions.[1] The event also featured the surprise debut of former WWE wrestler Brian Kendrick, who replaced Killer Rabbit as Gedo and Jado's partner.[1] During the event, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) wrestler Máscara Dorada regained the CMLL World Middleweight Championship from Ryusuke Taguchi to whom he had lost it at Fantastica Mania 2011 the previous January, while DDT Pro-Wrestling wrestler and winner of the 2011 Best of the Super Juniors Kota Ibushi captured the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship from Prince Devitt.[1] In the main event, Hiroshi Tanahashi successfully defended the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Hirooki Goto.[1]
Aftermath[]
A post-main event confrontation between Tanahashi and new double tag team champion Giant Bernard led to two title matches; Tanahashi and Goto challenging Bad Intentions for the IWGP Tag Team Championship and Bernard challenging Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.[1] Both champions ended up retaining their titles.[5][6]
Results[]
| # | Results[1][2][3] | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Koji Kanemoto defeated Hiromu Takahashi | Singles match | 03:04 |
| 2 | CHAOS (Brian Kendrick, Gedo and Jado) defeated Jushin Thunder Liger, Kushida and Tiger Mask | Six-man tag team match | 08:33 |
| 3 | Máscara Dorada defeated Ryusuke Taguchi (c) | Singles match for the CMLL World Welterweight Championship | 08:26 |
| 4 | Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Seigigun (Wataru Inoue and Yuji Nagata) defeated Chaos (Masato Tanaka, Takashi Iizuka and Tomohiro Ishii) | Six-man tag team match | 09:12 |
| 5 | Yujiro Takahashi defeated Tetsuya Naito | Singles match | 11:12 |
| 6 | Kota Ibushi defeated Prince Devitt (c) | Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | 13:49 |
| 7 | Suzuki-gun (Lance Archer and Minoru Suzuki) defeated Satoshi Kojima and Togi Makabe | Tag team match | 12:39 |
| 8 | MVP (c) defeated Toru Yano | Singles match for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship | 10:50 |
| 9 | Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) (IWGP) defeated Takuma Sano and Yoshihiro Takayama (GHC) | Tag team match for the GHC Tag Team Championship and the IWGP Tag Team Championship | 12:03 |
| 10 | Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) defeated Hirooki Goto | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 25:28 |
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References[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Dominion 6.18 (in Japanese). New Japan Pro Wrestling. Retrieved on 2013-10-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 ja:王者・棚橋がＶ５ 次は後藤とタッグ王座挑戦へ＝新日本プロレス (in Japanese). Sports Navi. Yahoo! (2011-06-19). Archived from the original on 2011-06-23. Retrieved on 2013-10-18.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dominion 2011 . Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved on 2015-08-14.
- ↑ Grabianowski, Ed. How Pro Wrestling Works . HowStuffWorks, Inc.. Discovery Communications. Retrieved on 2014-09-13.
- ↑ New Japan Soul 2011 (in Japanese). New Japan Pro Wrestling. Retrieved on 2013-10-18.
- ↑ New Japan Soul 2011 (in Japanese). New Japan Pro Wrestling. Retrieved on 2013-10-18.
