page_title: Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall
section_title: Storylines
hierarchical_section_title: Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall / Production / Storylines
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 2016年5月29日 大阪市中央体育館・サブアリーナ 「BEST OF THE SUPER Jr.XXIII」 ケニー・オメガ
context_page_description: Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling. The event took place on June 19, 2016, in Osaka, Osaka, at the Osaka-jō Hall and was the eighth event under the Dominion name and second in a row to take place at the Osaka-jō Hall.
  The event featured ten matches with six of NJPW's seven championships on the line. The main event saw Kazuchika Okada defeat Tetsuya Naito to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship for the fourth time. Other top matches included Michael Elgin defeating Kenny Omega in NJPW's first-ever ladder match to win the IWGP Intercontinental Championship and Kushida successfully defending the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against 2016 Best of the Super Juniors winner Will Ospreay. All in all, the event featured five title changes.
context_section_description: Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall 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.
  Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall was main evented by Tetsuya Naito defending the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Kazuchika Okada. This was a rematch from April's Invasion Attack 2016, where Naito defeated Okada to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship for the first time. Naito's win came due to outside interference from his Los Ingobernables de Japon (L.I.J.) stablemates Bushi, Evil and the debuting Sanada, which led to the continuation of a storyline rivalry between L.I.J. and Okada's Chaos stable over the next tour. On May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2016, Naito made his first successful defense of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Chaos member Tomohiro Ishii. After the match, Okada, who had defeated L.I.J. member Sanada earlier in the event, entered the ring and had a staredown with Naito, indicating he wanted the next title shot. The match was made official for Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall three days later. Naito invited NJPW owner Takaaki Kidani to come witness the match, having earlier accused him of being in cahoots with Okada. Naito claimed that his L.I.J. stablemate Evil was a more worthy title contender than Okada and suspected that Kidani had secured Okada the title shot at Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall. Naito noted the surge in his popularity over the past year, comparing the reception he had gotten during NJPW's 2015 North American tour to the one had gotten during the May 2016 tour and claimed he was now more popular than Okada. He confronted Kidani on May 18 at an expo in Singapore and again invited him to Dominion 6.19 to witness his popularity. On the tour leading to Dominion 6.19, Naito got the best of Okada with help from his L.I.J. stablemates. However, days prior to the event, Naito stated that he would agree to arrive to the match without his stablemates by his side as long as Okada also agreed to arrive without his manager Gedo by his side.
  Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall was also scheduled to feature a ladder match for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship between champion Kenny Omega and challenger Hiroshi Tanahashi. Earlier in the year, the IWGP Intercontinental Championship had been vacated after Shinsuke Nakamura departed NJPW, leading to a match on February 14, 2016, at The New Beginning in Niigata, where Omega defeated Tanahashi to become the new champion. Over the next months, Omega and Tanahashi faced off in many matches involving the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship. The first title match occurred on March 20 and saw Tanahashi, Michael Elgin and Juice Robinson fail in their attempt to capture the title from Omega and his Bullet Club stablemates The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson). Tanahashi and Elgin then replaced Robinson with Yoshitatsu and on April 10 at Invasion Attack 2016, the three defeated Omega and The Young Bucks to become the new NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions. After a successful title defense against Omega and two other Bullet Club members, Bad Luck Fale and Yujiro Takahashi, on April 23, Tanahashi, Elgin and Yoshitatsu lost the title back to Omega and The Young Bucks on May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2016. Tanahashi had originally challenged Omega to an IWGP Intercontinental Championship rematch on April 27, but was turned down by the champion, who kicked Tanahashi low, raised a ladder on top of him and climbed on top of it, before stating that he never wanted to face Tanahashi again. After the match at Wrestling Dontaku 2016, Tanahashi repeated his challenge. Initially, Omega again turned down the challenge, but then added that if Tanahashi agreed to a ladder match, he would grant him the title shot. The two climbed up on the opposite sides of a ladder and shook hands to set the match up, which was made official three
caption: Kenny Omega, who defended the IWGP Intercontinental Championship in NJPW's first-ever ladder match
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