Wrestling Dontaku 2018
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.
| Wrestling Dontaku 2018 | |||
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| Promotion | New Japan Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | May 3-4, 2018[1] | ||
| City | Fukuoka, Japan[2] | ||
| Venue | Fukuoka Kokusai Center[1] | ||
| Attendance | 10,373 (total) Night 1: 4,066[3] Night 2: 6,307[4] | ||
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| Wrestling Dontaku chronology | |||
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Storylines
| 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
Night 2
| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taguchi 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 | ||
| 3 | Chaos (Sho, Yoh and Rocky Romero) defeated Suzuki-gun (Takashi Iizuka, Taichi and Taka Michinoku) | Six-man tag team match | 06:00 | ||
| 4 | Chaos (Toru Yano and Tomohiro Ishii) defeated Toa Henare and Togi Makabe | Tag team match | 07:12 | ||
| 5 | Chaos (Jay White, Yoshi-Hashi & Hirooki Goto) defeated Taguchi Japan (Michael Elgin, David Finlay and Juice Robinson) | Six-man tag team match | 11:04 | ||
| 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 match | 08:47 | ||
| 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 | ||
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References
- "HAMAKATSU Presents WRESTLING DONTAKU 2018". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
- 【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.
- 濵かつ Presents レスリングどんたく 2018. New Japan Pro-Wrestling. May 3, 2018. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
- 濵かつ Presents レスリングどんたく 2018. New Japan Pro-Wrestling. May 4, 2018. Retrieved May 4, 2018.
- Currier, Joseph (April 2, 2018). "Okada vs. Tanahashi headlines NJPW Wrestling Dontaku Tour". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
- Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Retrieved April 10, 2017.