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DOMINION 2023 MAIN EVENT: NEW JAPAN ON AXS TV REPORT

Welcome to the New Japan Pro Wrestling on AXS TV report!

It is the Dominion 2023 main event!

IWGP World Heavyweight Championship:   Yota Tsuji vs. SANADA 

Both men have their factions at ringside.  Big pop from the crowd for Tsuji.   

They locked up and Tsuji grabbed a headlock.  Tsuji moved very methodically in the ring.  SANADA pushed him off into the ropes.  SANADA tried a leapfrog but Tsuji hit a spear.   Everyone popped as SANADA went to the floor.  They popped louder as Tsuji hit a somersault press over the top rope to the floor.  Tsuji tried another spear but SANADA hit a knee to the face.   Tsuji charged but SANADA grabbed him in a front face lock.  SANADA reverses into a Dragon Sleeper then Skull End.  SANADA goes for a moonsault but Tsuji gets the knees up.  

They trade strikes and chops.  Tsuji with a tilt a whirl back breaker.  Tsuji gets him in a Boston Crab.  Tsuji goes for his own moonsault but SANADA moves.  SANADA hits two dropkicks and a plancha to the floor.   SANADA with another dropkick but Tsuji hits a super kick of his own.  

They trade chops.  Tsuji hits a stomp and picks up SANADA into a suplex powerbomb move.  Two count.  Tsuji hits a Spanish Fly from the top rope.  Two count.   

They blocked each others moves.  SANADA went for Dead Fall, but Tsuji spun out of it.  Tsuji with a super kick, high knee and a headbutt.   Tsuji hits another curb stomp.   Tsuji went for a spear but SANADA hit a dropkick in the face.  SANADA hits a moonsault and a Shining Wizard.   SANADA hits Dead Fall.

SANADA pins Tsuji.

SANADA retains the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

After the match, Los Ingobernales leave ringside without helping their new teammate.   Hmmmm.

SANADA tells Tsuji to work hard and he will see him again soon.   SANADA promises to win the G1 Climax.

The match was fine.  Tsuji has promise.  He is more athletic than when he was on New Japan World as a young lion.  But he kept going for the spear so much.  He cannot rely on that all the time.

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