Wrestling Dontaku
Wrestling Dontaku (レスリングどんたく Resuringu Dontaku?) is an annual professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). It was originally held from 1993 to 1995 and again from 2000 to 2001 in Fukuoka at the Fukuoka Dome. The event was revived in 2009 and has since been held at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center and aired as a pay-per-view (PPV). From 2013 to 2014, the event also aired outside Japan as an internet pay-per-view (iPPV). Since 2015, the event has aired worldwide on NJPW's internet streaming site, New Japan Pro Wrestling World. "Dontaku" is an obsolete Japanese word for holiday, derived from the Dutch word for Sunday, "Zondag".[1]
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Events
1993
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Promotion | New Japan Pro Wrestling | |||
Date | May 3, 1993[2] | |||
Attendance | 55,000[2] | |||
Venue | Fukuoka Dome[2] | |||
City | Fukuoka, Japan[2] | |||
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The first Wrestling Dontaku was held on May 3, 1993, in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, at the Fukuoka Dome. The event featured ten matches.[2] As part of working relationships between NJPW and American promotions World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Federation (WWF), WCW's Sting and WWF's Brutus Beefcake, Hulk Hogan and Jimmy Hart took part in the event.[2] The event featured a "dream match" between Hogan, the reigning WWF Champion, and The Great Muta, the reigning IWGP Heavyweight Champion.[25]
1994
Wrestling Dontaku 1994 | ||||
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Promotion | New Japan Pro Wrestling | |||
Date | May 1, 1994 | |||
Attendance | 53,500[3] | |||
Venue | Fukuoka Dome[3] | |||
City | Fukuoka, Japan[3] | |||
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The second Wrestling Dontaku was held on May 1, 1994, in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, at the Fukuoka Dome. The event featured thirteen matches; three of which were contested for championships.[3] Much like the previous year, the event featured wrestlers from World Championship Wrestling (WCW), with Rick Rude defeating Sting for the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship.[3] The decision was, however, later reversed due to Rude cheating to win the match.[26] The semi-main event saw Shinya Hashimoto defeat Tatsumi Fujinami to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship for the second time.[3]
1995
Wrestling Dontaku 1995 | ||||
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Promotion | New Japan Pro Wrestling | |||
Date | May 3, 1995[4][5] | |||
Attendance | 52,000[5] | |||
Venue | Fukuoka Dome[4][5] | |||
City | Fukuoka, Japan[4] | |||
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The third Wrestling Dontaku was held on May 3, 1995, in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, at the Fukuoka Dome. The event featured eleven matches, two of which were contested for championships.[4][5] For the third year in a row, wrestlers from World Championship Wrestling (WCW) took part in the event.[4] The event saw Sabu capture the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship from Koji Kanemoto and Keiji Mutoh capture the IWGP Heavyweight Championship from Shinya Hashimoto, ending his reign which had started at the previous year's Wrestling Dontaku.[4][5]
No. | Results[4][5] | Stipulations | Times[4] |
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1 | Yuji Nagata defeated Manabu Nakanishi | Singles match | 13:29 |
2 | El Samurai and Takayuki Iizuka defeated Akira Nogami and Norio Honaga | Tag team match | 13:45 |
3 | Wild Pegasus defeated Too Cold Scorpio | Singles match | 12:00 |
4 | Sabu defeated Koji Kanemoto (c) | Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | 16:39 |
5 | Junji Hirata defeated Hiro Saito | Singles match | 06:04 |
6 | The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) defeated Hawk Warrior and Scott Norton | Tag team match | 18:52 |
7 | Shiro Koshinaka and Terry Funk defeated Hiromichi Fuyuki and Masahiro Chono | Tag team match | 13:40 |
8 | Ric Flair defeated Hiroshi Hase | Singles match | 22:52 |
9 | Antonio Inoki and Kōji Kitao defeated Genichiro Tenryu and Riki Choshu | Tag team match | 10:57 |
10 | Kensuke Sasaki defeated Hiroyoshi Tenzan | Singles match | 11:20 |
11 | Keiji Mutoh defeated Shinya Hashimoto (c) | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 21:13 |
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2000
Wrestling Dontaku 2000 | ||||
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Promotion | New Japan Pro Wrestling | |||
Date | May 5, 2000[6] | |||
Attendance | 25,000[6] | |||
Venue | Fukuoka Dome[6] | |||
City | Fukuoka, Japan[6] | |||
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The fourth Wrestling Dontaku, first in five years, was held on May 5, 2000, in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, at the Fukuoka Dome. The event featured eight matches, two of which were contested for championships.[6] The event opened with the finals of the 2000 Young Lion Cup, where Kenzo Suzuki defeated Shinya Makabe,[6] who later became better known as Togi Makabe, winning the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.[27] In the semi-main event, Manabu Nakanishi and Yuji Nagata successfully defended the IWGP Tag Team Championship against Kazunari Murakami and Naoya Ogawa, while in the main event, Kensuke Sasaki, using his Power Warrior persona, defeated The Great Muta to retain the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.[6]
No. | Results[6] | Stipulations | Times[6] |
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1 | Kenzo Suzuki defeated Shinya Makabe | Singles match; finals of the 2000 Young Lion Cup | 15:08 |
2 | Junji Hirata, Shiro Koshinaka and Tadao Yasuda defeated Team 2000 (Hiro Saito, Michiyoshi Ohara and Tatsutoshi Goto | Six-man tag team match | 10:19 |
3 | Kendo Kashin, Koji Kanemoto, Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Cima, Jushin Thunder Liger, Minoru Tanaka and Sumo Dandy Fuji | Eight-man tag team match | 14:26 |
4 | Genichiro Tenryu defeated Takashi Iizuka | Singles match | 13:26 |
5 | Yutaka Yoshie defeated Satoshi Kojima | Singles match | 16:08 |
6 | Masahiro Chono defeated Tatsumi Fujinami | Singles match | 06:03 |
7 | Manabu Nakanishi and Yuji Nagata (c) defeated Kazunari Murakami and Naoya Ogawa | Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship | 09:26 |
8 | Power Warrior (c) defeated The Great Muta | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 12:44 |
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2001
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Promotion | New Japan Pro Wrestling | |||
Date | May 5, 2001[7] | |||
Attendance | 25,000[7] | |||
Venue | Fukuoka Dome[7] | |||
City | Fukuoka, Japan[7] | |||
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The fifth Wrestling Dontaku was held on May 5, 2001, in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, at the Fukuoka Dome. The event featured nine matches, one of which was contested for a championship.[7] In the title match, El Samurai and Jushin Thunder Liger defeated the Mexican brother tag team of Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Silver King to retain the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.[7] The event also featured appearances by mixed martial artists Don Frye and Rainy Martinez.[7]
2009
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2010
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2011
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2012
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2013
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2014
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2015
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2016
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