Wrestling Dontaku 2019
2019 New Japan Pro-Wrestling event
Wrestling Dontaku 2019 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on May 3 and 4, 2019, in Fukuoka, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center.[3] The first night of the event featured eight matches, with two championships at stake, while the second night featured a championship match out of eight matches overall. The main event of the first night was Dragon Lee defending the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion against Taiji Ishimori,[4] and the second night's main event was Kazuchika Okada defending the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Sanada.[4] This was the sixteenth event under the Wrestling Dontaku name.
Storylines
Each night of Wrestling Dontaku 2019 featured eight 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.[5]
Results
Night 1
Night 2
No. | Results[7] | Stipulations | Times |
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1 | Ren Narita and Shota Umino defeated Yota Tsuji and Yuya Uemura | Tag team match | 7:36 |
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2 | Suzuki-gun (El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki, Taichi, Taka Michinoku and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) defeated Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask, Jeff Cobb, Toa Henare and Yoshi-Hashi | Ten-man tag team match | 11:16 |
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3 | Jyushin Thunder Liger and Most Violent Players (Toru Yano and Togi Makabe) defeated Bullet Club (Jado, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) | Six-man tag team match | 7:40 |
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4 | Chaos (Hirooki Goto and Mikey Nicholls), Juice Robinson and Tomoaki Honma defeated Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens, Hikuleo and Jay White) | Eight-man tag team match | 11:57 |
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5 | Bullet Club (El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori) defeated Dragon Lee and Will Ospreay | Tag team match | 9:58 |
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6 | Los Ingobernables de Japón (Bushi, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito) defeated Roppongi 3K (Sho and Yoh) and Kota Ibushi | Six-man tag team match | 13:47 |
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7 | Tomohiro Ishii defeated Evil | Singles match | 23:08 |
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8 | Kazuchika Okada (c) defeated Sanada | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 38:03 |
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(c) | – the champion(s) heading into the match |
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