# 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 on Constitution Memorial Day, a national holiday in Japan on May 3, 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, NJPW World. In 2018 and 2019, Wrestling Dontaku took place over two back-to-back shows. The event was originally scheduled to take place in 2020 on May 3 and May 4, but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "Dontaku" is an obsolete Japanese word for holiday, derived from the Dutch word for Sunday, "Zondag", used in reference to Hakata Dontaku, a Fukuoka-based festival held in early May, the same time as the event. In 2022, the event took place on May 1 at Fukuoka PayPay Dome, formerly known as the Fukuoka Dome. This was the first time that Wrestling Dontaku was held in the domed venue since 2001.

## Events

| # | Event | Date | City | Venue | Attendance | Main event |
| 1 | Wrestling Dontaku 1993 | May 3, 1993 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Dome | 55,000 | Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Genichiro Tenryu and Riki Choshu |
| 2 | Wrestling Dontaku 1994 | May 1, 1994 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Dome | 53,500 | Antonio Inoki vs. The Great Muta |
| 3 | Wrestling Dontaku 1995 | May 3, 1995 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Dome | 52,000 | Shinya Hashimoto (c) vs. Keiji Mutoh for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 4 | Wrestling Dontaku 2000 | May 5, 2000 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Dome | 25,000 | Power Warrior (c) vs. The Great Muta for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 5 | Wrestling Dontaku 2001 | May 5, 2001 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Dome | 25,000 | Kazunari Murakami and Naoya Ogawa vs. Manabu Nakanishi and Riki Choshu |
| 6 | Wrestling Dontaku 2009 | May 3, 2009 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 5,500 | Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Hirooki Goto for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 7 | Wrestling Dontaku 2010 | May 3, 2010 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 6,000 | Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Togi Makabe for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 8 | Wrestling Dontaku 2011 | May 3, 2011 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 6,500 | Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 9 | Wrestling Dontaku 2012 | May 3, 2012 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 6,500 | Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Hirooki Goto for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 10 | Wrestling Dontaku 2013 | May 3, 2013 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 6,800 | Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Minoru Suzuki for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 11 | Wrestling Dontaku 2014 | May 3, 2014 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 7,190 | Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. A.J. Styles for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 12 | Wrestling Dontaku 2015 | May 3, 2015 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 5,180 | Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Hirooki Goto for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship |
| 13 | Wrestling Dontaku 2016 | May 3, 2016 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 5,299 | Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 14 | Wrestling Dontaku 2017 | May 3, 2017 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 6,126 | Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Bad Luck Fale for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 15 | Wrestling Dontaku 2018 | May 3, 2018 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 4,066 | Kenny Omega vs. Hangman Page |
| 15 | Wrestling Dontaku 2018 | May 4, 2018 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 6,307 | Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 16 | Wrestling Dontaku 2019 | May 3, 2019 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 4,011 | Dragon Lee (c) vs. Taiji Ishimori for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship |
| 16 | Wrestling Dontaku 2019 | May 4, 2019 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 6,105 | Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Sanada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 17 | Wrestling Dontaku 2021 | May 3, 2021 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 2,211 | Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Jay White for the NEVER Openweight Championship |
| 17 | Wrestling Dontaku 2021 | May 4, 2021 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 2,367 | Will Ospreay (c) vs. Shingo Takagi for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship |
| 18 | Wrestling Dontaku 2022 | May 1, 2022 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka PayPay Dome | 8,162 | Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship |
| 19 | Wrestling Dontaku 2023 | May 3, 2023 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 4,489 | Sanada (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship |
| 20 | Wrestling Dontaku 2024 | May 3, 2024 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 2,440 | Nic Nemeth (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship |
| 21 | Wrestling Dontaku 2024 | May 4, 2024 | Fukuoka, Japan | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | 4,238 | Jon Moxley (c) vs. Ren Narita for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship |
| (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match ||||||||

## 2000

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. The event opened with the finals of the 2000 Young Lion Cup, where Kenzo Suzuki defeated Shinya Makabe, who later became better known as Togi Makabe, winning the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. 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.
| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
| 1 | Kenzo Suzuki defeated Shinya Makabe | Singles match in the 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, Jyushin 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 |
| (c) – the champion(s) heading into the match ||||

## 2001

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.
In the title match, El Samurai and Jyushin Thunder Liger defeated the Mexican brother tag team of Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Silver King to retain the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. The event also featured appearances by mixed martial artists Don Frye and Rainy Martinez.
| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
| 1 | Katsuyori Shibata and Shinya Makabe defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi and Wataru Inoue | Tag team match | 11:01 |
| 2 | Osamu Nishimura, Shiro Koshinaka and Yutaka Yoshie defeated Team 2000 (Hiro Saito, Michiyoshi Ohara and Tatsutoshi Goto) | Six-man tag team match | 11:00 |
| 3 | Minoru Tanaka defeated Kendo Kashin | Singles match | 10:18 |
| 4 | El Samurai and Jyushin Thunder Liger (c) defeated Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Silver King | Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship | 19:09 |
| 5 | Don Frye defeated Scott Norton | Singles match | 07:15 |
| 6 | Tadao Yasuda defeated Takashi Iizuka | Singles match | 07:23 |
| 7 | Yuji Nagata defeated Rainy Martinez | Singles match | 02:29 |
| 8 | BATT (Hiroshi Hase, Keiji Mutoh and Taiyō Kea) defeated Team 2000 (Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Masahiro Chono and Satoshi Kojima) | Six-man tag team match | 27:00 |
| 9 | Manabu Nakanishi and Riki Choshu defeated Kazunari Murakami and Naoya Ogawa | Tag team match | 09:07 |
| (c) – the champion(s) heading into the match ||||