Dominion 6.6 in Osaka-jo Hall

Dominion 6.6 in Osaka-jo Hall was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on June 7, 2021, in Osaka, Osaka, at the Osaka-jō Hall and is the thirteen event under the Dominion name and seventh in a row to take place at the Osaka-jō Hall.

Dominion 6.6 in Osaka-jo Hall
Promotional logo
Promotion	New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date	June 7, 2021
City	Osaka, Japan
Venue	Osaka-jō Hall
Attendance	3,045[1]
Event chronology
← Previous Wrestling Dontaku 2021 Road to Ignition Next → Kizuna Road 2021 Summer Struggle in Sapporo
Dominion chronology
← Previous 2020 Next → 6.12

The event was originally planned to take place on June 6, but was postponed to the following day due to the state of emergency in Japan because of the COVID-19 pandemic, although the name of the event was not changed. In the main event, Shingo Takagi defeated Kazuchika Okada to win the vacant IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. In other prominent matches, Kota Ibushi defeated Jeff Cobb, and El Desperado defeated Yoh to retain the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.

Production

Other on-screen personnel

Role:	Name:
English Commentators	Kevin Kelly
	Chris Charlton
	Rocky Romero
Japanese Commentators	Shinpei Nogami
	Milano Collection A.T.
	Katsuhiko Kanazawa
	Kazuyoshi Sakai
	Togi Makabe
	Miki Motoi
	Jushin Thunder Liger
	Masahiro Chono
Ring announcers	Makoto Abe
	Kimihiko Ozaki
Referees	Kenta Sato
	Marty Asami
	Red Shoes Unno

Background

Since 2020, NJPW has unable to run events with a full arena capacity due to COVID-19 restrictions.^[2] The event was originally scheduled to take place on June 6 but was postponed to June 7, due to the state of emergency.^[3]

Storylines

Dominion 6.6 in Osaka-jo Hall will feature 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.^[4]

On night 2 at Wrestling Dontaku, IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay successfully defended the title against Shingo Takagi.^[5] Ospreay was planned to defend the championship against Kazuchika Okada at Wrestle Grand Slam in the Tokyo Dome but the event was postponed due to the state of emergency.^[6][7] On May 20, Ospreay vacated the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship due to a neck injury.^[8] During Road to Wrestling Grand Slam both Takagi and Okada challenged for the vacant title.^[9] The match between Okada and Takagi for the vacant title was scheduled for Dominion.^[10]

Results

No.	Results[10]	Stipulations	Times[1]
1	Bullet Club (Taiji Ishimori, Evil, Yujiro Takahashi, Chase Owens, and El Phantasmo) (with Dick Togo) defeated Chaos (Sho, Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, Yoshi-Hashi) and Hiroshi Tanahashi	Ten-man tag team match	11:50
2	Los Ingobernables de Japón (Sanada, Tetsuya Naito and Bushi) defeated Suzuki-gun (Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi and Douki)	Six-man tag team match	11:31
3	El Desperado (c) (with Yoshinobu Kanemaru) defeated Yoh (with Sho)	Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship	23:40
4	Kota Ibushi defeated Jeff Cobb (with Great-O-Khan)	Singles match	14:54
5	Shingo Takagi defeated Kazuchika Okada	Singles match for the vacant IWGP World Heavyweight Championship	36:06
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match