Dominion 6.21 (2014): WrestleFile Historical Verdict

Time Splitters' Alex Shelley and KUSHIDA defeated reigning junior tag champions Matt and Nick Jackson in 16:50, so Dominion 2014 opened with an actual IWGP title transfer rather than a routine warmup. The victory ended the Young Bucks' reign on this particular Osaka card. At B- / 7.1, WrestleFile views the bout as a useful division-history selection rather than a match of the night. Anyone tracing 2014 Bullet Club results should begin here: the Bucks lost their title, but Gallows and Anderson retained the heavyweight tag belts later, and Bad Luck Fale won the Intercontinental championship to close the night. Those different outcomes make the opener indispensable to a complete recounting of the promotion's title changes.

Tetsuya Naito defeated Tama Tonga in 8:13 in the second match of the June 2014 Osaka program. Neither a tag championship nor the IWGP Intercontinental belt was on the line in this singles bout. WrestleFile's C+ / 6.5 puts the matchup in the supporting tier, below the 16:50 opening junior tag title change and the later singles title decision. Tonga's Bullet Club affiliation adds roster context without turning this result into a faction-wide sweep; the same show also recorded a Young Bucks title loss. For a shorter watch, the bout is useful primarily to identify Naito and Tonga's distinct 2014 meeting rather than to explain the evening's champions.

Hirooki Goto and Katsuyori Shibata, billed together as Meiyu Tag, beat Tomoaki Honma and Yuji Nagata in 11:20. The match is a useful four-man snapshot, with Goto and Shibata's named pairing a clearer way to remember the result than a generic third-slot rating. Its C+ / 6.5 is one of the lower evaluations on this nine-match card, and the documented outcome did not award an IWGP or NWA championship. Viewers following the duo or the opposition can include it in a full-card replay. Those concentrating on the two title switches should instead prioritize the opening Shelley-KUSHIDA win and Fale's closing Intercontinental victory.

Tencozy's Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima retained the NWA World Tag Team Championship against Killer Elite Squad, Lance Archer and Davey Boy Smith Jr., in 15:26. The belt was not the IWGP heavyweight tag title, which Gallows and Anderson defended later, or the IWGP junior tag championship that had already changed hands in the opener. WrestleFile's B- / 7.1 marks a supporting championship defense rather than the central title transfer of the evening. The exact teams and separate title make this a useful viewing stop for anyone reconstructing the Osaka event's multi-promotion belt picture, while its result must be recorded as a successful Tencozy defense.

Kota Ibushi beat Ricochet in 13:37 to retain the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship at Dominion 2014. That successful singles defense should not be merged with Time Splitters' earlier junior heavyweight tag title victory: they were distinct belts and results. Ibushi entered as champion, remained champion, and earned a B- / 7.1 WrestleFile match evaluation. The Ricochet pairing carries its own interest in the junior division beyond who closed the show. A viewer comparing the night's title changes and defenses can watch this as the counterpoint to the Young Bucks' lost team championship, rather than counting every junior-title appearance as a change.

Minoru Suzuki and Takashi Iizuka, representing Suzuki-gun, defeated Toru Yano and Kazushi Sakuraba in 15:13. It is the card's separate mid-show faction tag result, not part of the Time Splitters title win or the subsequent Bullet Club championship picture. WrestleFile's C+ / 6.8 grades the contest below the successful junior title defense and the late tag matches. The participants give this entry historical utility for anyone following Suzuki-gun and CHAOS-era relationships, without claiming an unrecorded title consequence or an invented finishing move. A concise event replay can sample it to establish the faction pairing and then move on to the last three matches.

Bullet Club's AJ Styles and Yujiro Takahashi beat Kazuchika Okada and Tomohiro Ishii in a 15:53 tag match. This result is particularly easy to misread if the presence of Styles and Okada is taken as evidence that the IWGP Heavyweight Championship changed hands. It did not: the match was a tag contest, and the documented singles title switch came two bouts later when Bad Luck Fale defeated Nakamura for the Intercontinental belt. At B- / 7.1, the Styles-Yujiro win helps establish Bullet Club's late-card run of results without converting it into a heavyweight title defense. Its appeal is the particular four-wrestler combination and placement before two more Bullet Club title contests.

Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson successfully defended the IWGP Tag Team Championship against Hiroshi Tanahashi and Togi Makabe, known together as Ace to King, in 14:41. Their B- / 7.4 is the show's highest match grade outside the Fale-Nakamura finale, making it a reasonable second late-card replay. Crucially, Bullet Club's heavyweight tag champions retained while the Young Bucks had lost the junior tag belts earlier in the program. The distinction also separates the IWGP tag championship from Tencozy's NWA title defense. The confirmed result shows Gallows and Anderson leaving Osaka as champions; there is no basis to describe a tag-title transfer or attach the Intercontinental outcome to this match.

Bad Luck Fale beat defending IWGP Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura in 17:56 to take the belt in the main event at Bodymaker Colosseum. The B / 7.8 verdict is WrestleFile's highest individual score on the nine-match show, and the change of champion makes it the most important full replay for the June 21, 2014 result. Fale's triumph gave Bullet Club a final title gain after the group's Young Bucks had lost the junior tag championship in the opener and Gallows and Anderson had retained the heavyweight tag belts in the penultimate match. AJ Styles and Yujiro Takahashi had also beaten Okada and Ishii in a separate tag contest. The final bout changed the Intercontinental champion, not the IWGP Heavyweight titleholder.