NJPW Road To Dominion Results: Bullet Club Battles Chaos, Hiroshi Tanahashi Returns & Minoru Suzuki Prepares For War Against Hirooki Goto
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Bullet Club (Kenny Omega, Nick Jackson & Matt Jackson) def. Chaos (Kazuchika Okada, Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero)
Kushida, Ricochet, Juice Robinson, Ryusuke Taguchi & Hiroshi Tanahashi def. Los Ingobernables (Tetsuya Naito, Evil, Bushi, Sanada & Hiromu Takahashi)
Suzuki-Gun (Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr., Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi) def. Chaos (Jade, Toru Yano, Yoshi-Hashi & Hirooko Goto)
Bullet Club (Cody, Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga & Tonga Roa) def. Michael Elgin, David Finlay & War Machine (Raymond Rowe & Hanson)
Bullet Club (Yujiro Takahashi & Hangman Page) def. Chaos (Gedo & Tomohiro Ishii)
Tomoyuki Oka, Hirai Kawato, Tiger Mask IV, Yuji Nagata & Togi Makabe def. Katsuya Kitamura, Jushin “Thunder” Liger, Manabu Nakanishi, Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan
Suzuki-Gun (Taka Michinoku & El Desparado) def. Tetsuhiro Yagi & Syota Umino
Match By Match Recap
Tetsuhiro Yagi & Syota Umino vs. Suzuki-Gun (Taka Michinoku & El Desparado)
The match begins with Umino and Yagi jumping their opponents before the bell rang, Yagi then attacks Michinoku with a few chops. Yagi misses a drop kick and Michinoku quickly locks him in a single leg crab, Michinoku stomps on a downed Yagi before tagging Desparado in. Desparado slams Yagi before catching him with a spinning back elbow strike, Michinoku tags back in and he stomps away on the injured back of Yagi. Michinoku again locks Yagi in the single leg crab until Yagi gets to the ropes, Desparado tags back in and he nails Yagi with forearm strikes. Yagi fights back until he misses a drop kick against Desparado, Yagi then drops Desparado with another drop kick attempt.
Umino gets the tag and he cleans house on the opposition, Desparado eats a bunch of running strikes from Umino before eating a drop kick. Yagi tags in and he nails Desparado with a series of forearm strikes, Desparado recovers to hit Yagi with a spine buster into a Boston crab. Desparado then locks Yagi in a stretch muffler and a tap out follows.
Winners: Suzuki-Gun (Taka Michinoku & El Desparado)
Tomoyuki Oka, Hirai Kawato, Tiger Mask IV, Yuji Nagata & Togi Makabe vs. Katsuya Kitamura, Jushin “Thunder” Liger, Manabu Nakanishi, Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan
The match begins with Kitamura locking Oka in a head lock, Oka reverses things and he works over Kitamura with a head lock. Oka and Kitamura then exchange shoulder tackles with nobody going down, Oka and Kitamura then have a forearm striking exchange until Kitamura drops Oka with a shoulder block. Mask IV and Nakanishi get the tags from their respective partners, Mask IV attacks Nakanishi with a series of leg kicks. Nakanishi grabs a charging Mask IV to slam him and then nail him with a splash, Liger tags in and Mask IV catches him with a spin kick before tagging Kawato in. Kawato then drops Liger with a flying forearm strike, Kawato follows that up by nailing Liger with a springboard drop kick for a near fall.
Kawato goes to the top rope and Liger meets him up there to nail him with a superplex, Liger grabs Kawato and he tosses him to the arena floor. Liger then catches Kawato with a baseball slide drop kick, Liger goes out as well to throw Kawato into the barricade and then back into the ring. Kojima tags in and he levels Kawato with a neck breaker, Tenzan comes in to double team Kawato with Kojima. Kojima traps Kawato in the corner before assaulting him with a plethora of chops, Kojima catches Kawato with a top rope elbow drop for a near fall. Kawato then drops a charging Kojima with a drop kick, Makabe gets the tag and he cleans house on the opposition. Makabe catches Kojima and Tenzan with a series of running clotheslines in the corner, Makabe drops a charging Kojima with a clothesline for a near fall.
Kojima recovers and he drops Makabe with an ace crusher before tagging Tenzan in, Makabe drops Kojima and Tenzan with a double clothesline. Nagata tags in and he attacks Tenzan with a series of kicks, Tenzan responds by nailing Nagata with Mongolian chops and a Samoan drop. Kitamura tags in and he drops Nagata with a shoulder tackle, Kitamura locks Nagata in the torture rack until it gets broken up. Nagata then catches a charging Kitamura with a boot to the face and a back drop driver for the three count.
Winners: Tomoyuki Oka, Hirai Kawato, Tiger Mask IV, Yuji Nagata & Togi Makabe
Chaos (Gedo & Tomohiro Ishii) vs. Bullet Club (Yujiro Takahashi & Hangman Page)
The match begins with Takahashi backing Ishii into the ropes before just slapping him, Ishii looks for a headlock and Takahashi bites his fingers. Ishii recovers and he drops Takahashi with a shoulder tackle, Gedo tags in and he teams with Ishii to hit Takahashi with a double shoulder tackle. Gedo and Takahashi take turns biting the others fingers, Page tags in and he mauls Gedo with a series of strikes in the corner. Page then hits Gedo with a suplex for a near fall, Takahashi hits the ring and he works with Page to hit Gedo with a series of double team moves. Page hits Gedo with a pump handle overhead slam for a near fall, Page assaults Gedo with some chops as well.
Gedo nails a charging Page with a boot to the face followed by a back elbow strike, Page misses a Lionsault attempt and Ishii tags in. Ishii clobbers Page with a forearm strike followed by a shoulder tackle, Takahashi hits the ring and Ishii drops him with a shoulder tackle. Ishii then catches Page with a suplex for a near fall, Page recovers to rock Ishii with a roaring forearm strike. Page then crushes Ishii with a pile driver for a near fall, Takahashi tags in and he nails Ishii with a low drop kick for a near fall. Ishii recovers and he drops a charging Takahashi with a power slam, Gedo tags in and he catches Takahashi with a series of jabs. Gedo looks for a super kick and Takahashi nails him with a low drop kick, Takahashi hits Gedo with a fisherman buster suplex for a near fall.
Takahashi looks for Pimp Juice and Ishii interferes to nail him with a German suplex, Page hits the ring to take out both members of Chaos with a double clothesline. Takahashi hits Gedo with Pimp Juice for the three count.
Winners: Bullet Club (Yujiro Takahashi & Hangman Page)
More action on Page Two…
Michael Elgin, David Finlay & War Machine (Raymond Rowe & Hanson) vs. Bullet Club (Cody, Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga & Tonga Roa)
The match begins with Cody catching Rowe with a few strikes, War Machine then clobbers Cody with a double shoulder tackle. Bullet Club are knocked to the arena floor by all the members of the opposing team, Elgin grabs Cody and he nails him with a delayed verticle suplex. Rowe then slams Hanson onto a downed Cody, Hanson tagged in during the scuffle before getting hit with double team moves by Tama and Roa. Cody then traps Hanson in the corner before assaulting him with a plethora of stomps in the corner, members of both teams start brawling on the arena floor. Cody traps the leg of Hanson in the ropes before kicking away at it, Fale tags in and he mauls Hanson with strikes in the corner.
Fale then decides to just stand on top of a downed Hanson, Tama tags in and he mauls Hanson with more strikes in the corner. Cody tags back in and he works over the injured leg of Hanson, Cody drops Hanson and he quickly locks him in the figure four leg lock. Tama tags in and he catches Hanson with a slingshot splash for a near fall, Tama tags Cody back in and Cody eats a clothesline from Hanson. Hanson then takes out two more Bullet Club members before tagging Rowe in, Rowe quickly cleans house on the opposing team. Rowe slams Tama before clobbering him with a running knee strike, Cody interferes to hit Rowe with a springboard drop kick.
Rowe drops Cody with a forearm strike before tagging Elgin in, Elgin then hits Cody with a release German suplex. Elgin places Cody on the top rope and he meets him up there, Cody knocks Elgin off the tope before diving towards him and eating a uranage. Finlay tags in and he drops Tama with a drop kick, Finlay goes to the top rope and Fale pushes him off and onto the arena floor. War Machine then brawls with Tama and Roa into the crowd, Finlay then cracks Cody with a flying European uppercut in the ring. Fale interferes and Elgin takes care of him, Cody then hits Elgin with the Beautiful Disaster before Finlay catches him with a back breaker. Cody catches Finlay with Cross Rhodes for the three count.
Winners: Bullet Club (Cody, Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga & Tonga Roa)
Chaos (Jade, Toru Yano, Yoshi-Hashi & Hirooko Goto) vs. Suzuki-Gun (Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr., Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi)
The match begins with an all out brawl breaking out on the arena floor between everybody in the match, Suzuki then tosses Goto into the barricade at ringside. Taichi attacks Yano with strikes in the corner of the ring, Taichi and Yano start playing mind games with each other. Yoshi-Hashi and Kanemaru get the tags from their respective partners, Yoshi-Hashi drops Kanemaru with some back elbow strikes and a slam. Taichi interferes and he attacks Yoshi-Hashi on the arena floor, another brawl breaks out on the arena floor between everybody in the match. Suzuki attacks Goto with a steel chair in the crowd, Taichi also attacks Yoshi-Hashi with his microphone stand.
Kanemaru throws Yoshi-Hashi into the ring and Suzuki interferes to lock him in an arm bar, Taichi tags in and he works over the injured arm of Yoshi-Hashi in the corner. Taichi then catches Yoshi-Hashi with a clothesline in the corner, Yoshi-Hashi recovers and he nails a swinging Taichi with a drop kick. Kanemaru tags in and he stomps away on a downed Yoshi-Hashi, Suzuki tags in and he kicks a seated Yoshi-Hashi in the back. Yoshi-Hashi tries fighting back and he evntually catches Suzuki with a spinning heel kick, Goto tags in and he cleans house on the opposition. Goto and Suzuki have a forearm strike exchange in the middle of the ring, Goto hits Suzuki with a Saito suplex for a near fall.
Goto drops Suzuki with a running clothesline in the corner before catching him with a top rope elbow drop for a near fall, Suzuki recovers and he locks Goto in the rear naked choke. Goto breaks free as everybody else in the match brawls on the arena floor, Suzuki looks for a pile driver and Goto breaks free. Sabre Jr tags in and he nails Goto with European uppercuts, Goto and Sabre Jr have a striking exchange in the middle of the ring. Goto then drops sabre Jr with a modified back breaker, Chaos then attacks Sabre Jr with some quadruple team holds as Jado tags in. Yet another brawl breaks out on the arena floor between both members of each team, Suzuki attacks Jado in the ring and Goto breaks that up. Sabre Jr locks Jado in the modified Rings Of Saturn to force a submission.
Winners: Suzuki-Gun (Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr., Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi)
Final bouts are on Page Three…
Kushida, Ricochet, Juice Robinson, Ryusuke Taguchi & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Los Ingobernables (Tetsuya Naito, Evil, Bushi, Sanada & Hiromu Takahashi)
The match begins with Naito instantly attacking the injured arm of Tanahashi, Tanahashi gets angry and he levels Naito with strikes in the corner. Naito drops Tanahashi and he nails him with a drop kick to his injured arm, Naito then attacks the injured arm of Tanahashi with elbow strikes. Naito then drop kicks Tanahashi in the injured arm and Tanahashi rolls to the arena floor, Ricochet and Bushi get the tags from their respective partners. Bushi eventually drops Ricochet with a shoulder tackle, Ricochet recovers and he knocks Bushi out of the ring. Evil interferes and he attacks Ricochet from behind, Ricochet eventually takes both Evil and Bushi out. Taguchi tags in and everybody but Tanahashi attacks Bushi in the corner, Taguchi goes to the middle rope and Bushi catches him with a drop kick.
A brawl breaks out on the arena floor between everybody in the match, Bushi takes off his shirt and he chokes Taguchi with it inside of the ring. Takahashi tags in and he crushes Taguchi with a drop kick to the face, Evil and Sanada hit the ring to double team Taguchi in the ring. Bushi returns and he nails Taguchi with a middle rope missile drop kick, Taguchi recovers and he drops a charging Bushi with a hip attack. Taguchi then hits Bushi with a drop kick before tagging Kushida in, Takahashi gets the tags as well and he exchanges strikes with Kushida. Kushida eventually drops a charging Takahashi with a handspring kick to the face, Naito interferes and Kushida quickly knocks him out of the ring. Kushida then hits Takahashi with a DDT, Kushida and Takahashi drop each other with a series of strikes.
Evil gets the tag and he nails Kushida with a spinning clothesline, Kushida recovers and drops Evil with a handspring elbow strike. Robinson tags in and he cleans house of the opposition, Robinson then hits Evil with some strikes and a spine buster. Robinson then hits Evil with a cannonball in the corner, Taguchi hits the ring and he works with Robinson to double team Evil. Ricochet interferes to hit Evil with a running shooting star press, Evil uses a referee distraction to nail Robinson with a super kick. Naito tags in and Robinson quickly drops him with a lariat, Tanahashi tags in and he mauls Naito with strikes in the corner. Tanahashi follows them up by catching Naito with a basement drop kick, Tanahashi follows that up by dropping Naito with a dragon screw leg whip.
Bushi interferes to hit Tanahashi with double team moves alongside Naito, Sanada tags in and he works over Tanahashi as well. Los Ingobernables then hit Tanahashi with a quartet of drop kicks in the middle of the ring, Sanada goes for the Skull End before everybody hits the ring to take each other out. Sanada then hits Tanahashi with a TKO for the near fall, Sanada goes for Skull End and Tanahashi rolls him up for a three count.
Winners: Kushida, Ricochet, Juice Robinson, Ryusuke Taguchi & Hiroshi Tanahashi
After the match, Los Ingobernables attack their opponents and focus on the injured arm of Tanahashi.
Chaos (Kazuchika Okada, Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero) vs. Bullet Club (Kenny Omega, Nick Jackson & Matt Jackson)
The match begins with Beretta and taking Nick down with a headlock and working him over afterwards, Beretta gets up and he drops Nick with a shoulder tackle. Beretta misses an elbow drop as Nick continuously taunts him, Beretta gets angry and he assaults Nick with chops. Nick looks for a slingshot DDT and Beretta catches him with a northern lights suplex, Romero tags in and he attacks Nick with chops. Nick breaks free to tag in Matt and Matt drops Romero with a shoulder tackle, Romero then hits a charging Matt with an European uppercut. Romero follows that up by catching Matt with a running drop kick, Okada and Omega get the tags from their respective partners.
Okada slams Omega and then hits him with a slingshot swanton bomb, Okada then drops an interfering Nick on top of Omegs. Bullet Club then catch a cornered Okada with a triple drop kick in the corner, Omega then takes out Beretta and Romero with a fame-asser followed by a bulldog. Chaos are eventually knocked out of the ring as Bullet Club celebrates, Bullet Club go for suicide dives and Cahos drags them out of the ring. Chaos fakes a suicide dive attempt before mocking Bullet Club, Bullet Club head to the locker room and Chaos chases after them. Bullet Club return to the ring and they also go under the ring, Chaos return to the ring and get jumped from behind by Bullet Club. Bullet Club knocks all the members of Chaos down with stereo super kicks, Nick grabs Beretta and he throws him into the barricade.
Beretta is thrown back into the ring and Omega works him over in the corner, Matt tags in and he nails Beretta with an axe handle drop. Nick comes in so he can double team Beretta with Matt, Omega tags back in so he can nail Beretta with another axe handle drop. Omega then drops a dazed Beretta with a chop to the chest, Omega then throws Beretta into the propped up boots of the Young Bucks. Omega taunts Chaos before tossing Beretta into the propped up boots of the Young Bucks again, Cody interferes by giving Bullet Club his cowboy boots and Beretta throws Omega into them. Omega gets angry and he attacks Beretta with a cowboy boot, Omega misses a charge into the corner and Beretta nails him with a tornado DDT.
Cody interferes again and an also interfering Gedo takes him out, Beretta then drops Omega and Cody with a double clothesline. Okada gets the tag and he drops Omega with a running elbow strike, Okada follows that up by clobbering Omega with a DDT and European uppercut. Okada goes to the top rope and the Young Bucks stop him, Omega then hits a distracted Okada with a superplex. Romero and Nick get the tags from their respective partners, Romero lays out both Young Bucks and Omega. Romero then hits Bullet Club with Forever Clotheslines, Omega recovers and he drops Romero with a snap dragon suplex. Omega then grabs Okada and he drops him with another snap dragon suplex, Bullet Club then level Romero with a triple super kick for a near fall.
Romero escapes the Indy Taker to throw the Young Bucks into each other, Okada hits the ring to drop Nick with a drop kick. Matt is then assaulted with triple team moves by Chaos for a near fall, Romero and Nick have a forearm strike exchange in the middle of the ring. Nick then crushes a charging Romero with a super kick, Nick goes to the top rope and Romero meets him up there. Nick holds Romero upside down while Matt nails him with a super kick, Bullet Club hit Romero with an Indy Taker. Omega then hits Romero with a One Winged Angel to get the three count.
Winners: Bullet Club (Kenny Omega, Nick Jackson & Matt Jackson)
After the match, Bullet Club lays out Okada with super kicks and then Omega pretends to go for a One Winged Angel through a table before releasing Okada.
