Wrestling Dontaku 2018

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Wrestling Dontaku 2018
Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
DateMay 3-4, 2018 [1]
City Fukuoka, Japan [2]
Venue Fukuoka Kokusai Center [1]
Attendance10,373 (total)
Night 1: 4,066 [3]
Night 2: 6,307 [4]
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Wrestling Dontaku 2018 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on May 3 and 4, 2018, in Fukuoka, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center. The first night of the event featured nine matches, with a championship at stake in one of these, while the second night featured two championship matches out of nine overall. The main event of the first night was Kenny Omega against Hangman Page, [5] and the second night's main event was Kazuchika Okada defending the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Hiroshi Tanahashi. [5] This was the fifteenth event under the Wrestling Dontaku name.

Contents

Storylines

Other on-screen personnel
Role:Name:
Commentators Don Callis (English-language announcer)
Kevin Kelly (English-language announcer)
Ring announcers Makoto Abe
Referees Kenta Sato
Marty Asami
Red Shoes Unno
Tiger Hattori

Each night of Wrestling Dontaku 2018 featured nine 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. [6]

Results

Night 1

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes
1 Bullet Club (Chase Owens and Yujiro Takahashi) defeated Yota Tsuji and Shota Umino Tag team match 05:32
2 Taguchi Japan (Ryusuke Taguchi and Jyushin Thunder Liger), and Tiger Mask defeated Ren Narita, Tomoyuki Oka and Yuji Nagata Six-man tag team match 07:12
3 Chaos (Sho, Yoh and Rocky Romero) defeated Suzuki-gun (Takashi Iizuka, Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer)Six-man tag team match02:04
4Chaos (Hirooki Goto, Jay White, Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano and Yoshi-Hashi) defeated Taguchi Japan (Toa Henare, Michael Elgin, Togi Makabe, David Finlay and Juice Robinson) Ten-man tag team match 10:25
5 Super Villains (Marty Scurll, Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) defeated Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) (c)Six-man tag team match for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship 12:05
6 Los Ingobernables de Japón (Hiromu Takahashi, Bushi, Evil, Sanada and Tetsuya Naito) defeated Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru and El Desperado)Ten-man tag team match13:36
7Chaos (Will Ospreay and Kazuchika Okada) defeated Taguchi Japan (Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kushida)Tag team match16:15
8 Cody defeated Kota Ibushi Singles match 23:36
9 Kenny Omega defeated Hangman Page Singles match18:23
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

Night 2

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes
1Taguchi Japan (Ryusuke Taguchi and Jyushin Thunder Liger), and Tiger Mask defeated Ren Narita, Shota Umino and Yuya Uemura Six-man tag team match 06:34
2 Bullet Club (Chase Owens and Yujiro Takahashi) defeated Tomoyuki Oka and Yuji Nagata Tag team match 06:11
3Chaos (Sho, Yoh and Rocky Romero) defeated Suzuki-gun (Takashi Iizuka, Taichi and Taka Michinoku)Six-man tag team match06:00
4Chaos (Toru Yano and Tomohiro Ishii) defeated Toa Henare and Togi Makabe Tag team match07:12
5 Chaos (Jay White, Yoshi-Hashi & Hirooki Goto) defeated Taguchi Japan (Michael Elgin, David Finlay and Juice Robinson)Six-man tag team match11:04
6 Los Ingobernables de Japón (Hiromu Takahashi, Bushi, Evil, Sanada and Tetsuya Naito) defeated Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Lance Archer, Yoshinobu Kanemaru and El Desperado) Ten-man tag team match 08:31
7 Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa) and Golden☆Lovers (Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi) defeated Bullet Club (Cody, Hangman Page, Marty Scurll, Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson)Ten-man tag team match08:47
8 Will Ospreay (c) defeated Kushida Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship 23:46
9 Kazuchika Okada (c) defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship 34:36
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

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References

  1. 1 2 "HAMAKATSU Presents WRESTLING DONTAKU 2018". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ 【新日】王者オカダＶＳ棚橋　５・４福岡決戦に向けて火花. Tokyo Sports (in Japanese). May 2, 2018. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
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