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2018 New Japan Pro-Wrestling event
Wrestling Dontaku 2018 was a
professional wrestling event promoted by
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on May 3 and 4, 2018, in
Fukuoka, at the
Fukuoka Kokusai Center. The first night of the event featured nine matches, with a
championship at stake in one of these, while the second night featured two championship matches out of nine overall. The main event of the first night was
Kenny Omega against
Hangman Page,
[5] and the second night's main event was
Kazuchika Okada defending the
IWGP Heavyweight Championship against
Hiroshi Tanahashi.
[5] This was the fifteenth event under the
Wrestling Dontaku name.
Each night of Wrestling Dontaku 2018 featured nine
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.
[6]
No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
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1 |
Bullet Club (
Chase Owens and
Yujiro Takahashi) defeated Yota Tsuji and
Shota Umino |
Tag team match | 05:32 |
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2 |
Taguchi Japan (
Ryusuke Taguchi and
Jyushin Thunder Liger), and
Tiger Mask defeated
Ren Narita,
Tomoyuki Oka and
Yuji Nagata |
Six-man tag team match | 07:12 |
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3 |
Chaos (
Sho,
Yoh and
Rocky Romero) defeated
Suzuki-gun (
Takashi Iizuka,
Davey Boy Smith Jr. and
Lance Archer) | Six-man tag team match | 02:04 |
---|
4 | Chaos (
Hirooki Goto,
Jay White,
Tomohiro Ishii,
Toru Yano and
Yoshi-Hashi) defeated Taguchi Japan (
Toa Henare,
Michael Elgin,
Togi Makabe,
David Finlay and
Juice Robinson) |
Ten-man tag team match | 10:25 |
---|
5 |
Super Villains (
Marty Scurll,
Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) defeated
Bullet Club (
Bad Luck Fale,
Tama Tonga and
Tanga Loa) (c) | Six-man tag team match for the
NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship | 12:05 |
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6 |
Los Ingobernables de Japón (
Hiromu Takahashi,
Bushi,
Evil,
Sanada and
Tetsuya Naito) defeated
Suzuki-gun (
Minoru Suzuki,
Zack Sabre Jr.,
Taichi,
Yoshinobu Kanemaru and
El Desperado) | Ten-man tag team match | 13:36 |
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7 | Chaos (
Will Ospreay and
Kazuchika Okada) defeated Taguchi Japan (
Hiroshi Tanahashi and
Kushida) | Tag team match | 16:15 |
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8 |
Cody defeated
Kota Ibushi |
Singles match | 23:36 |
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9 |
Kenny Omega defeated
Hangman Page | Singles match | 18:23 |
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(c) | – the champion(s) heading into the match |
|
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No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
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1 | Taguchi Japan (
Ryusuke Taguchi and
Jyushin Thunder Liger), and
Tiger Mask defeated
Ren Narita,
Shota Umino and
Yuya Uemura |
Six-man tag team match | 06:34 |
---|
2 |
Bullet Club (
Chase Owens and
Yujiro Takahashi) defeated
Tomoyuki Oka and
Yuji Nagata |
Tag team match | 06:11 |
---|
3 | Chaos (
Sho,
Yoh and
Rocky Romero) defeated
Suzuki-gun (
Takashi Iizuka,
Taichi and
Taka Michinoku) | Six-man tag team match | 06:00 |
---|
4 | Chaos (
Toru Yano and
Tomohiro Ishii) defeated
Toa Henare and
Togi Makabe | Tag team match | 07:12 |
---|
5 |
Chaos (
Jay White,
Yoshi-Hashi &
Hirooki Goto) defeated Taguchi Japan (
Michael Elgin,
David Finlay and
Juice Robinson) | Six-man tag team match | 11:04 |
---|
6 |
Los Ingobernables de Japón (
Hiromu Takahashi,
Bushi,
Evil,
Sanada and
Tetsuya Naito) defeated
Suzuki-gun (
Minoru Suzuki,
Davey Boy Smith Jr.,
Lance Archer,
Yoshinobu Kanemaru and
El Desperado) |
Ten-man tag team match | 08:31 |
---|
7 |
Bullet Club (
Bad Luck Fale,
Tama Tonga,
Tanga Loa) and
Golden☆Lovers (
Kenny Omega &
Kota Ibushi) defeated
Bullet Club (
Cody,
Hangman Page,
Marty Scurll,
Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) | Ten-man tag team match | 08:47 |
---|
8 |
Will Ospreay (c) defeated
Kushida |
Singles match for the
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | 23:46 |
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9 |
Kazuchika Okada (c) defeated
Hiroshi Tanahashi | Singles match for the
IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 34:36 |
---|
(c) | – the champion(s) heading into the match |
|
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