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NEW IWGP WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION CROWNED: 6/14 NJPW DOMINION RESULTS FROM OSAKA, JAPAN

1 - NJPW World TV Championship:   Konosuke Takeshita vs. SANADA

SANADA old music plays and eight men come out dressed in SANADA's old masks and holding replica belts that SANADA has held.   

The real SANADA comes out dressed in a red robe, red hair, and holding the NJPW World TV belt, which he stole from Takeshita.   SANADA does not look like a member of either House of Torture or Unbound Company.

Takeshita hits a Power Drive Knee and Raging Fire.  Takeshita pins SANADA.

Konosuke Takeshita retains the NJPW World TV Championship.

2 - El Phantasmo vs. Jake Lee

Jake Lee is in his Joker face paint.  

ELP tries to load his boot with a metal plate.  Lee hits a Face Break Shot.  Lee hits ELP with his loaded boot.   Lee applies a  front face lock choke.   The referee calls the match to stop.

Lee wins the match by submission

3 - Taichi and Yuya Uemura vs. Ryohei Oiwa and Zack Sabre Jr.

Taichi pins Oiwa with a cradle pin.

4 - El Desperado vs. Mistico

Good match.  Desperado forces Mistico to tap out to Numero Dos.

After the match, Mistico bows to the Lion Head in the ring and thanks the fans in Osaka.  

The announce the Blocks for G1 Climax 36:

A Block:

Konosuke Takeshita

Yota Tsuji

SANADA

Shingo Takagi

Jake Lee

Boltin Oleg

Hirooki Goto

B Block:

Callum Newman

Zack Sabre Jr.

Shota Umino

Yuya Uemura

Ren Narita

Drilla Moloney

Gabe Kidd

The final four spots will be determined in the coming weeks.

No major surprises in the announcement of these participants.   

5 - NEVER Openweight Championship:   Ren Narita vs. Aaron Wolf

Wolf hits a uranage and an Angle Slam.   Wolf pins Narita.

Aaron Wolf wins the NEVER Openweight Championship.

6 - IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship:   Yuto-Ice and OSKAR vs. Great O-Khan and HENAR

Stiff match.    HENARE was bleeding from the ear.   O-Khan kicks a chair into OSKAR's face.   HENARE and O-KHan hit an Imperial Bomb/Eliminator combination off the ropes on Yuto-Ice.   HENARE pins Yuto.

United Empire wins the IWGP Tag Team Championship.

O-Khan was about to hit Yuto with a chair.  OSKAR runs in and shields his partner.   O-Khan beats down OSKAR with a chair.   The crowd boos.   This makes United Empire the heels and, more importantly, cements the Knockout Brothers as babyfaces.

HENARE and O-Khan now have the IWGP Tag Team Championship and the NEVER 6-man Championship.    We shall see how this plays out with Will Ospreay, who was not announced for the G1 Climax, which was a good decision.

7 - IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship:   Andrade El Idolo vs. Shota Umino vs. Drilla Moloney

Umino hits a Second Chapter on Andrade and gets the pin.

Shota Umino wins the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship.

They finally pull the trigger, after 19 title matches, for Shota Umino and he getting a run with a major singles title.   The pressure is now on Umino to live up to the expectations put on his shoulders.

After the match, Gabe Kidd hits the ring and lays out Umino with a piledriver.   Kidd cuts a promo saying Umino was given everything to him by his father.   Kidd talked trash to Tanahashi and spits at him.  Kidd says f**k the WWE and f**k New Japan.   He spits on the New Japan lion head in the ring.    

Moloney watches this all and he shakes his head at Gabe Kidd.

This should be good drama for B Block heading into the G1 Climax.

8 - IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship:  DOUKI vs. YOH

SHO gets involved.   Wato makes a save.   DOUKI applies the Darkness Choke.  YOH reverses into a Dragon Screw.  YOH applies the Darkness Scorpion.   DOUKI reaches for this metal pipe.    Tanahashi leaves the announce table and takes the metal pipe away.   SHO kicks Tanahashi and throws him over the guardrail.   DOUKI grabs the referee while SHO chokes YOH with the pipe.   YOH hits a Super kick on SHO.   YOH hits a Magic Killer.   YOH hits a Direct Drive.  YOH pins DOUKI.

YOH wins the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship.   In 2026, YOH wins both the Best of the Super Jr. 33 and the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title for the first time.

YOH calls out Kosei Fujita.    SHO attacks YOH and grabs the title.    Master Wato takes out SHO.   Wato and Fujita go face to face.   Francesco Akira attacks YOH and YOH goes for a Direct Drive but Akira escapes.   

YOH states that all men can face each other in the "YOH Games" which is a 4 way match and the winner gets a title shot.

9 - IWGP World Heavyweight Championship:  Callum Newman vs. Yota Tsuji

Good match.  Tsuji tries to hit a Gene Blast on the ring apron.    Newman hits a knee in the gut and follows with Excalibur.   Tsuji falls through a table and rolls into the guardrail.   Tsuji is selling his arm.   Tsuji hits a release German.   Tsuji hits two Gene Blasters.   Two count.    Newman gets to his feet.   Tsuji comes from the side angle with another Gene Blaster.   Tsuji whips Newman around in a combination Gene Blaster and a snap back suplex.  Newman lands hard on his left shoulder and begins to grab at his shoulder.   Tsuji covers him.  Newman does not kick out.  Referee makes the count of three.

Yota Tsuji wins the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.  

The referee tells Tsuji it was a three count and he waves in United Empire.    Jake Lee, Akira and Zane Jay immediately check on Newman who was not moving and clutching his shoulder.  

Tanahashi gives Tsuji the belt.     

Tsuji puts over Callum Newman and cuts a hype promo to close the night.    

No run-ins on Tsuji.    

Tsuji said the move that he hit on Newman was the Wildfire.

It looked like Newman injured his shoulder and could not kick out.   The referee made the count and had to stick with it.   They like to do set up the next program after the title match, but nothing happened which means plans could have changed on the fly.  The crowd seemed to be quiet when the match ended.   We won't know the original plan but New Japan will run with this for now.  Newman deserved a much longer run than this.   

Thank you for reading.

 

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