A NJPW summer doesn’t get started in earnest until Dominion arrives. That happens this weekend, as Dominion 6.4 in Osaka-jo Hall becomes the 15th show to bear the Dominion name and the ninth at the venue in its title.
As always, there are championship matches aplenty. Of the nine bouts on the card (there’s also one non-televised match to kick things off for the live crowd), there is gold at stake in seven of them, plus a No. 1 contender match for an eighth title.
The main event will be a test of the star power of two men who haven’t spent much time in these kinds of spots to date. IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Sanada is set to take on Yota Tsuji, who only just returned to the company from his overseas excursion at Wrestling Dontaku 2023 last month. Will fans take to them as top of the card talent?
AEW fans might want to check out Dominion as well, since several matches figure to play into the dual-branded Forbidden Door event later this month. Lance Archer and Will Ospreay will face off for the right to challenge for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, a title that just happens to be held by Kenny Omega. It’s also worth noting that Omega was said to be out of the company but “not in Canada,” meaning he could make an in-person appearance.
The NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship is also intriguing, as champions Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii and Hiroshi Tanahashi battle Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Shota Umino. This is the kind of matchup that could easily be run back at Forbidden Door, though Mox has also seemingly been campaigning for a one-on-one match with Okada …
The action all goes down late Saturday night/early Sunday morning, depending where you are in the U.S. Here’s everything you need to know to watch Dominion.
Dominion 6.4 in Osaka-jo Hall
- Date: Saturday, June 4, 2023
- Location: Osaka-jō Hall, Osaka, Japan
- Start time: 3:00 a.m. ET/midnight PT/4:00 p.m. JST
- How to watch: On NJPW World (subscription required) in Japanese or English