Full Match Line-Up Plus Preview For NJPW Dominion On June 15th

By: Lewis Carlan

On June 15th, New Japan Pro-Wrestling will present its next major event, Dominion, at Osaka Jo Hall. NJPW Dominion will feature five championship matches.

The main event for NJPW Dominion will see Shingo Takagi attempting to regain the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship as he challenges the current titleholder Hirooki Goto. This will be the seventh title defense for Goto who won the belt back in Feb. 2025.

In the past, Goto and Takagi have met four times in singles matches with Takagi winning three of those encounters. It was back in Feb. 2020 that Takagi defeated Goto for the NEVER Openweight Title. Goto is set to do everything in power to prevent Takagi from taking the IWGP World Heavyweight Title from him on June 15th. Fans can expect an absolute war between these two combatants.

In the co-featured encounter, the IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion Yota Tsuji will face the challenge of Gabe Kidd. Tsuji defended his title against Kidd back in Feb. 2025 in a spectacular match that ended in a double KO. This will be Tsuji’s fourth IWGP Global Heavyweight Title defense. This is going to be a hard fought battle between two of today’s top stars.

The NEVER Openweight Championship will be on the line as the current titleholder Konosuke Takeshita faces Oleg Boltin in a rematch of their Feb. 2025 title bout in which Takeshita retained his belt by defeating Boltin. This is actually the rubber match between the two as Boltin holds a victory over Takeshita at G1 Climax 2024.

In a Dog Collar Chain Deathmatch- David Finlay & EVIL will do battle in a bout that’s expected to be a brutal one. Finlay and EVIL will be chained together at the neck and anything can be used as a weapon. This is a no disqualification match and there will be no means of escape for either competitor. This match can only conclude via pinfall, submission or knockout.

Here is the full list of matches set for NJPW Dominion on June 15th:

• Main Event IWGP World Heavyweight Title: Hirooki Goto (c) vs. Shingo Takagi
• IWGP Global Heavyweight Title: Yota Tsuji (c) vs. Gabe Kidd
• Dog Collar Chain Death Match: David Finlay vs. “King of Darkness” EVIL
• NEVER Openweight Title: KONOSUKE TAKESHITA (c) vs. Oleg Boltin
• IWGP Tag Team Title: Great-O-Khan & Callum Newman (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Taichi
• IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title: YOH & Master Wato (c) vs. SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
• Hiroshi Tanahashi Final Road ~ Tsunagu: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yuya Uemura
• Special Tag Match: Shota Umino & El Phantasmo vs. Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa
• Special Eight Man Tag Match: Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Chase Owens & Taiji Ishimori vs. SANADA, Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi & X
• Shoma Kato & Katsuya Murashima vs. Masatora Yasuda & Daiki Nagai

NJPW Dominion will air live on NJPW World subscription streaming service on June 15th.