# Wrestling Dontaku 2011

Wrestling Dontaku 2011 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on May 3, 2011, in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center. The event featured 10 matches, 4 of which were contested for championships. It was the eighth event under the Wrestling Dontaku name.

## Storylines

Wrestling Dontaku 2011 featured ten 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.

## Event

Jyushin Thunder Liger continued his reign as the CMLL World Middleweight Champion, which had started at the previous year's Wrestling Dontaku, by defeating Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) wrestler Máscara Dorada. Both IWGP tag team titles were successfully defended during the event, with Junior Heavyweight Champions Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) defeating the No Remorse Corps (Davey Richards and Rocky Romero) and Heavyweight Champions Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) defeating No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro Takahashi). The event also featured two major storyline developments. In the first, following No Limit's failure to recapture the IWGP Tag Team Championship, Yujiro Takahashi walked out on Tetsuya Naito, which later led to a bitter feud between the two. In the second, Taichi and Taka Michinoku turned on Satoshi Kojima, after his loss against Togi Makabe, and formed Suzuki-gun under the leadership of Minoru Suzuki, who made his surprise return to confront Makabe. The event also marked the return of Hirooki Goto, who had spent the past two months in CMLL. In the main event, Hiroshi Tanahashi successfully defended the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Shinsuke Nakamura, after which he was attacked by Goto, who was now displaying a new mean streak.

## Results

| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
| 1 | Hiromu Takahashi, Manabu Nakanishi and Tomoaki Honma defeated Chaos (Gedo, Jado and Killer Rabbit) | Six-man tag team match | 04:36 |
| 2 | Kojima-gun (Taichi and Taka Michinoku) defeated Kushida and Tiger Mask | Tag team match | 06:43 |
| 3 | Chaos (Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano) defeated Hiroyoshi Tenzan, King Fale and Wataru Inoue | Six-man tag team match | 07:57 |
| 4 | Jyushin Thunder Liger (c) defeated Máscara Dorada | Singles match for the CMLL World Middleweight Championship | 10:04 |
| 5 | Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) (c) defeated No Remorse Corps (Davey Richards and Rocky Romero) | Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship | 17:41 |
| 6 | Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) (c) defeated No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro Takahashi) | Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship | 19:49 |
| 7 | Hirooki Goto and Tama Tonga defeated Makoto Hashi and Takashi Sugiura | Tag Team match | 09:43 |
| 8 | Yuji Nagata defeated Masato Tanaka | Singles match | 14:53 |
| 9 | Togi Makabe defeated Satoshi Kojima | Singles match | 11:51 |
| 10 | Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) defeated Shinsuke Nakamura | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 20:17 |
| (c) – the champion(s) heading into the match ||||