Konosuke Takeshita beat Tomohiro Ishii to retain his AEW Worldwide and NEVER Openweight Championships at Wrestle Dynasty. Takeshita was returning to motion within the Tokyo Dome only a day after he defeated Shingo Takagi to win the Openweight title, making his Wrestle Dynasty bout with Ishii a double-title match. Talking after the match to Japanese media, Takeshita confirmed he had signed a cope with NJPW along with his present commitments with AEW and DDT Professional Wrestling, having wrestled for all three promotions prior to now few days alone.
Ishii was the sixth challenger to Takeshita’s Worldwide Championship in his 85-day reign and seemed to be a stiff contest for “The Alpha,” with a lot of the early goings centered on back-and-forth putting exchanges and energy maneuvers. Nevertheless, the youthful champion pressed his benefit on the veteran, sponging all the things from headbutts to lariats as he made use of a number of suplexes, his signature leaping knee and a poisonrana heading into the closing stretch. Ishii tried to battle again with a enzuigiri, however it did little to vary the complexion of issues and he was quickly dropped with a Falcon Arrow for the pinfall.
