# Wrestling Dontaku 2021

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.
The event featured eleven matches, throughout both nights. In the main event of the first night Jay White defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the NEVER Openweight Championship. In the second night's main event, Will Ospreay defeated Shingo Takagi to retain the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. This was the seventeenth event under the Wrestling Dontaku name.

## Production

Other on-screen personnel :
| Role: | Name: |
| English Commentators | Kevin Kelly |
| English Commentators | Chris Charlton |
| English Commentators | Rocky Romero |
| Japanese Commentators | Shinpei Nogami |
| Japanese Commentators | Milano Collection A.T. |
| Japanese Commentators | Katsuhiko Kanazawa |
| Japanese Commentators | Kazuyoshi Sakai |
| Japanese Commentators | Togi Makabe |
| Japanese Commentators | Miki Motoi |
| Japanese Commentators | Jushin Thunder Liger |
| Japanese Commentators | Masahiro Chono |
| Ring announcers | Makoto Abe |
| Ring announcers | Kimihiko Ozaki |
| Referees | Kenta Sato |
| Referees | Marty Asami |
| Referees | Red Shoes Unno |

### Background

Since 2020, NJPW has unable to run events with a full arena capacity due to COVID-19 restrictions.

### Storylines

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.

## Results
### Night 1

| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
| 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 |
| 2 | Chaos (Kazuchika Okada, Sho and Yoh) defeated Suzuki-gun (El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) | Six-man tag team match | 10:31 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5 | Taichi defeated Tama Tonga | Ladder match for the Iron Finger from Hell | 27:11 |
| 6 | Jay White defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) | Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship | 39:01 |
| (c) – the champion(s) heading into the match ||||

### Night 2

| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
| 1 | Suzuki-gun (Taichi, Zack Sabre Jr. and Douki) defeated Bullet Club (Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa and Jado) by submission | Six-man tag team match | 10:00 |
| 2 | Bullet Club (Yujiro Takahashi and Taiji Ishimori) defeated Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Master Wato | Tag team match | 10:42 |
| 3 | United Empire (Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb and Aaron Henare) defeated Los Ingobernables de Japón (Bushi, Sanada and Tetsuya Naito) | Six-man tag team match | 14:54 |
| 4 | Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano and Ryusuke Taguchi defeated Bullet Club (Jay White, Evil and Dick Togo) | Six-man tag team match | 12:14 |
| 5 | Will Ospreay (c) defeated Shingo Takagi | Singles match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship | 44:53 |
| (c) – the champion(s) heading into the match ||||