Wrestling Dontaku 2019

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]

Wrestling Dontaku 2019
Promotion	New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date	May 3-4, 2019
City	Fukuoka, Japan
Venue	Fukuoka Kokusai Center
Attendance	10,116 (total) Night 1: 4,011[1] Night 2: 6,105[2]
Event chronology
← Previous G1 Supercard; Wrestling Hinokuni Next → Best of the Super Juniors 26; War of the Worlds
Wrestling Dontaku chronology
← Previous 2018 Next → —

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

No.	Results[6]	Stipulations	Times
1	Ren Narita, Shota Umino and Tomoaki Honma defeated Toa Henare, Yota Tsuji and Yuya Uemura	Six-man tag team match	10:46
2	Suzuki-gun (El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki, Taka Michinoku and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) defeated Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask, Jyushin Thunder Liger and Yoshi-Hashi	Eight-man tag team match	9:57
3	Chaos (Toru Yano and Will Ospreay) and Togi Makabe defeated Bullet Club (Hikuleo, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa)	Six-man tag team match	7:25
4	Roppongi 3K (Sho and Yoh) and Kota Ibushi defeated Los Ingobernables de Japón (Tetsuya Naito, Bushi and Shingo Takagi	Six-man tag team match	11:31
5	Chaos (Hirooki Goto and Mikey Nicholls) and Juice Robinson defeated Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens and Jay White)	Six-man tag team match	11:23
6	Los Ingobernables de Japón (Evil and Sanada) defeated Chaos (Kazuchika Okada and Tomohiro Ishii) by referee stoppage	Tag team match	16:52
7	Taichi defeated Jeff Cobb (c)	Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship	17:50
8	Dragon Lee (c) defeated Taiji Ishimori	Singles match for IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship	25:53
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

Night 2

No.	Results[7]	Stipulations	Times
1	Ren Narita and Shota Umino defeated Yota Tsuji and Yuya Uemura	Tag team match	7:36
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
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
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
5	Bullet Club (El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori) defeated Dragon Lee and Will Ospreay	Tag team match	9:58
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
7	Tomohiro Ishii defeated Evil	Singles match	23:08
8	Kazuchika Okada (c) defeated Sanada	Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship	38:03
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match