CHAOS set NEVER 6-Man title defence record

The main event on night two of the Road to Dominion saw Los Ingobernables De Japon challenge for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships, Tetsuya Naito, SANADA and BUSHI facing CHAOS champions YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto and Tomohiro Ishii. 

After tension built before the bell, it was familiar rivals SANADA and Hirooki Goto who started the match out, SANADA backing Goto into the ropes with a condescending clean break. Naito was rather more reluctant to tag in opposite Ishii however, and BUSHI would instead engage with the Stone Pitbull, who swatted the masked man aside to get to El Ingobernable with chops in the corner. 

BUSHI was still legal, and in the wrong corner as the champion side piled on the pressure and punishment. Typical LIJ teamwork created an opening for BUSHI however, Naito hanging YOSHI-HASHI over the top rope and allowing for a dropkick from the masked man. Rather than take a tag from BUSHI however, Naito would take the time to take out Ishii on the floor, choking the Stone Pitbull over the guardrail before coming back to the corner. 

With Naito a legal participant, he would lead the challengers in a considered and deliberate dissection of YOSHI-HASHI, and his shoulder in particular. A Headhunter finally connected though, and Ishii tagged in an all too ready Ishii to fire in more heavy shots to El Ingobernable and company. Ishii would toy with his prey before drawing Naito into a hard elbow exchange, the CHAOS member coming out on top before Naito finally accelerated into a basement dropkick at the 15 minute mark. 

SANADA was unable to take advantage of the tag, dropped with an Ishii German suplex, and Goto would set to work on both Cold Skull and an intervening BUSHI, a bulldog getting two for the champion side. SANADA would finesse Goto into the Paradise Lock, but the champions retained an upper hand, a rear naked choke being converted into the Goto-shiki clutch for two, and a second following after a YOSHI-HASHI double team. SANADA escaped the Ushigoroshi however, and raked the back of Goto, who delivered a receipt when Cold Sull wanted an O’Connor Roll. As offense escalated, SANADA dropped Goto with a TKO, and tags were made on both sides. 

BUSHI tore into YOSHI-HASHI, landing a tope suicida and pushing the advantage back inside before the Headhunter responded with a boot. Yet a follow up attempt from the champions was defused, LIJ hitting the ring for a string of triple teams as BUSHI set up for an MX. 

Goto and then Ishii would prevent the finishing blow, and YOSHI-HASHI and Goto connected for the Violent Flash, getting two at the 25 minute mark before the Headhunter sunk in the Butterfly Lock. As BUSHI worked to the ropes, YOSHI-HASHI gator rolled his masked opponent before landing a sit out powerbomb, which still wasn’t enough to finish BUSHI, who escaped the Kumagoroshi and nearly scored three from a schoolboy. 

Naito and Ishii hit the ring again, the match breaking down as Naito countered a Vertical Drop Brainbuster with a DDT. In the melee, BUSHI was still legal and took out YOSHI-HASHI before hitting the MX, Goto diving to make the save at the last possible instant. The masked man went for the move again, this time off the top rope, but YOSHI-HASHI sacrificed his bad right shoulder to lariat BUSHI out of midair. 

As all six men hit the ring, LIJ almost helped BUSHI to victory again, the BUSHI roll getting a near impossible 2.9 count. YOSHI-HASHI willed himself to a superkick and lariat that almost got the job done as the match passed half an hour, but while BUSHI resisted Karma, the Headhunter countered a Codebreaker back into the Butterfly. Despite Naito’s best efforts to make the save, Ishii would catch El Ingobernable with a kneebar, and BUSHI had no choice but to submit, CHAOS securing a record fifth defence.