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2021 New Japan Pro-Wrestling event
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 .[ 3]
The event featured eleven matches, throughout both nights.[ 4] In the main event of the first night Jay White defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the NEVER Openweight Championship .[ 5] In the second night's main event, Will Ospreay defeated Shingo Takagi to retain the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship .[ 5] This was the seventeenth event under the Wrestling Dontaku name.
Since 2020, NJPW has unable to run events with a full arena capacity due to COVID-19 restrictions.[ 6]
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.[ 7]
No. Results[ 1] 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
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