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2021 New Japan Pro-Wrestling event
Wrestling Dontaku 2021 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on May 3 and 4, 2021, in Fukuoka, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center.[3]
The event featured eleven matches, throughout both nights.[4] In the main event of the first night Jay White defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the NEVER Openweight Championship.[5] In the second night's main event, Will Ospreay defeated Shingo Takagi to retain the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.[5] This was the seventeenth event under the Wrestling Dontaku name.
Since 2020, NJPW has unable to run events with a full arena capacity due to COVID-19 restrictions.[6]
Each night of Wrestling Dontaku 2021 will feature six 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.[7]
| No. | Results[1] | Stipulations | Times |
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| 1 | Bullet Club (Evil, Yujiro Takahashi, Taiji Ishimori and Dick Togo) defeated Toru Yano, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Tiger Mask IV and Master Wato | Eight-man tag team match | 9:57 |
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| 2 | Chaos (Kazuchika Okada, Sho and Yoh) defeated Suzuki-gun (El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) | Six-man tag team match | 10:31 |
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| 3 | Los Ingobernables de Japón (Bushi, Sanada, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito) defeated United Empire (Will Ospreay, Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb and Aaron Henare) | Eight-man tag team match | 11:31 |
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| 4 | Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Tanga Loa | Singles match
Since Zack Sabre Jr. won, Dangerous Tekkers received a future IWGP Tag Team Championship match. | 15:12 |
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| 5 | Taichi defeated Tama Tonga | Ladder match for the Iron Finger from Hell | 27:11 |
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| 6 | Jay White defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) | Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship | 39:01 |
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| (c) | – the champion(s) heading into the match |
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- ^ a b "2021.05.03 Wrestling Dontaku 2021". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
- ^ a b "2021.05.04 Wrestling Dontaku 2021". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
- ^ "NJPW Announces Wrestling Dontaku As Two-Night Event In May 2021". Fightful. December 6, 2020. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
- ^ Murray, Dylan (May 2, 2021). "Preview: NJPW – Wrestling Dontaku 2021 Night One and Two". lastwordonsports.com. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
- ^ a b Rose, Bryan (April 5, 2021). "NJPW Reveals Cards For Wrestling Dontaku And Satsuma no Kuni". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
- ^ Satin, Ryan (June 8, 2020). "NJPW To Resume Operations This Month, First Show With Fans Again Announced". Pro Wrestling Sheet. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
- ^ Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
- ^ Renner, Ethan (May 3, 2021). "NJPW WRESTLING DONTAKU NIGHT TWO LIVE RESULTS: OSPREAY VS. SHINGO". f4wonline.com. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
