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14. Largest Crowd In Dominion History Fills Osaka-jō Hall

The city of Osaka has housed New Japan’s second-biggest event on its calendar since 2009, though it wasn’t until 2015 that Dominion was moved to the larger and more prestigious Osaka-jō Hall. Prior to that, the city’s Prefectural Gymnasium with only eight-thousand seats hosted the June event. Since moving to Osaka-jō, Dominion has consistently drawn over eleven-thousand fans - save for 2016's singular sub-ten-thousand turnout.

However, this year saw Dominion’s largest ever crowd of 11,901 people flock to the Hall. While barely beating out last year’s attendance by just sixty-nine people, the record crowd is indicative of NJPW’s continually growing popularity. Furthermore, when advance tickets went on sale in May, it was announced just three days later that they'd all sold out - this with only three bouts announced at the time: the IWGP Heavyweight, Intercontinental, and NEVER Championship fights.

Unsurprisingly, it was announced during Sunday's show that Dominion will return to Osaka-jō Hall in 2020. With the company and event's growing popularity, however, perhaps a move to the even larger Osaka Dome, with a capacity of around fifty-thousand, could be on the horizon in years to come.