{{Infobox Wrestling event |name=Dominion 6.16 |image=Dominion 6.16.jpg |caption=Promotional poster for the event, featuring various NJPW wrestler |promotion=New Japan Pro-Wrestling |date={{dts|2012|06|16}}<ref name=Dominion616/> |venue=Bodymaker Colosseum<ref name=Dominion616/> |city=Osaka, Japan<ref name=Dominion616/> |attendance=6,850<ref name=Dominion616/> |liveevent= |lastevent=Wrestling Dontaku |nextevent=G1 Climax 22 |event=Dominion |lastevent2=6.18 |nextevent2=6.22 |event3=New Japan Pro-Wrestling events |lastevent4 = Wrestling Dontaku 2012 |nextevent4 = Destruction }} '''Dominion 6.16''' was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on June 16, 2012, in Osaka, Osaka, at the newly renamed Bodymaker Colosseum. The event featured ten matches, four of which were contested for championships.<ref name=Dominion616>{{cite web | url = http://www.njpw.co.jp/match/detail_result.php?e=584 | title = Dominion 6.16 | accessdate=October 18, 2013 | work=New Japan Pro-Wrestling | language=Japanese}}</ref><ref name=Dominion616SN>{{cite web|url=http://sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp/fight/other/live/2012/2012061601/index.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618131452/http://sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp/fight/other/live/2012/2012061601/index.html |title=新日本プロレス「Dominion 6.16」 |archivedate=June 18, 2012 |date=June 16, 2012 |accessdate=October 18, 2013 |work=Sports Navi |publisher=Yahoo! |language=Japanese |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=Dominion2012PWH>{{cite web | url = http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/japan/newjapan/dominion.html#2012 | title = Dominion 2012 | accessdate=August 14, 2015 | work=Pro Wrestling History}}</ref> It was the fourth event under the Dominion name.
==Storylines== Dominion 6.16 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/pro-wrestling.htm |title=How Pro Wrestling Works |last=Grabianowski |first=Ed |accessdate=September 13, 2014 |work=HowStuffWorks, Inc. |publisher=Discovery Communications |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131129050844/http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/pro-wrestling.htm |archivedate=November 29, 2013 }}</ref>
==Event== The opening match saw participation from the DDT Pro-Wrestling trio of Daisuke Sasaki, Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi facing NJPW's Bushi, Kushida and Prince Devitt in a six-man tag team match.<ref name=Dominion616/> The third match was a decision match to determine the new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. Jyushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask defeated Taichi and Taka Michinoku to win the vacant title, when Liger revived his old Kishin Liger persona, after being unmasked by Taichi.<ref name=Dominion616/> The event saw Low Ki successfully defend the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against 2012 Best of the Super Juniors winner Ryusuke Taguchi, while two attempts were unable to determine the winner between IWGP Tag Team Champions, Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano, and challengers, Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima).<ref name=Dominion616/> As a result, four days later, the IWGP Tag Team Championship was declared vacant.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.njpw.co.jp/news/detail.php?nid=7665 | title = 7月シリーズ『Kizuna Road』最終戦7・22山形でIWGP 3大タイトルマッチ＆タッグ王座決定戦！ | date=June 20, 2012 | accessdate=October 18, 2013 | work=New Japan Pro-Wrestling | language=Japanese}}</ref> In the main event, Hiroshi Tanahashi recaptured the IWGP Heavyweight Championship from Kazuchika Okada.<ref name=Dominion616/> With his sixth title win, Tanahashi tied the record for most reigns as the IWGP Heavyweight Champion.<ref name=Dominion616WON>{{cite magazine | last = Meltzer | first = Dave | authorlink = Dave Meltzer | date = June 25, 2012 | title = June 25 Observer Newsletter: No Way Out and the supposed end of John Lauranitis, Brock's next opponent, Tanahashi on way to making history, tons more news from around the world | magazine = Wrestling Observer Newsletter | location = Campbell, California | issn = 1083-9593 | pages=6–9}}</ref>
==Reception== ''Tokyo Sports'' later named the main event the 2012 Match of the Year.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/prores/61838/ | script-title=ja:「２０１２年度プロレス大賞」受賞者 | date=December 11, 2012 | accessdate=October 18, 2013 | work=Tokyo Sports | language=Japanese | archive-date=March 3, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230930/http://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/prores/61838/ | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.njpw.co.jp/news/detail.php?nid=8661 | title = 【最年少タイ!!】オカダが『プロレス大賞』MVPを「あたりまえ」の初受賞!! ベストバウトはオカダvs棚橋！中邑は技能賞!! | date=December 11, 2012 | accessdate=October 18, 2013 | work=New Japan Pro-Wrestling | language=Japanese}}</ref>{{-}}
==Results== {{Pro Wrestling results table |results=<ref name=Dominion616/><ref name=Dominion616SN/><ref name=Dominion2012PWH/><ref name=Dominion616WON/> |times=<ref name=Dominion616/> |match1=Daisuke Sasaki and Golden☆Lovers (Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi) defeated Bushi, Kushida and Prince Devitt |stip1=Six-man tag team match |time1=10:48 |match2=Chaos (Rocky Romero, Tomohiro Ishii and Yoshi-Hashi) defeated Seigigun (Captain New Japan, Wataru Inoue and Yuji Nagata) |stip2=Six-man tag team match |time2=09:26 |match3=Jyushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask defeated Suzuki-gun (Taichi and Taka Michinoku) |stip3=Tag team match for the vacant IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship |time3=09:20 |match4=Black Dynamite (MVP and Shelton Benjamin) defeated Karl Anderson and Tama Tonga |stip4=Tag team match |time4=10:19 |match5=Low Ki (c) defeated Ryusuke Taguchi |stip5=Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship |time5=12:32 |match6=Chaos (Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano) (c) vs. Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima) ended in a double countout |stip6=Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship |time6=02:41 |match7=Chaos (Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano) (c) vs. Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima) ended in a no contest |stip7=Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship |time7=12:26 |match8=Chaos (Masato Tanaka and Shinsuke Nakamura) defeated Hirooki Goto and Tetsuya Naito |stip8=Tag team match |time8=13:28 |match9=Togi Makabe defeated Minoru Suzuki |stip9=Singles match |time9=16:21 |match10=Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Kazuchika Okada (c) (with Gedo) |stip10=Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |time10=28:06 }}
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==External links== *[http://www.njpw.co.jp/ The official New Japan Pro-Wrestling website] {{2012 NJPW events}} {{New Japan Pro Wrestling events|Dominion}}
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