We’re back in Fukuoka for a heavily-adjusted second half of the Wrestling Dontaku event, featuring Will Ospreay defending the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against Shingo Takagi.
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Hiroshi Tanahashi defends the NEVER Openweight title against Jay White on the first half of the Wrestling Dontaku show that also featured a rare New Japan ladder match…
Wrestling Dontaku came to a close as Kazuchika Okada made the first defence of his latest IWGP championship reign – and we found out who the latest X was for the Bullet Club.
The first half of this year’s Wrestling Dontaku saw Taiji Ishimori challenge for Dragon Lee’s junior heavyweight title in a thriller – while we got the tease of a new arrival to New Japan.
Wrestling Dontaku wrapped up for another year as both the junior and heavyweight titles were on the line in Fukuoka.
Bullet Club was the theme of the first half of this year’s Wrestling Dontaku, as they defended the Never trios titles against… themselves, while the “Civil War” continued with a pair of matches that sadly under-delivered.
New Japan’s run of supershows culminated in Fukuoka earlier with their annual Wrestling Dontaku – a show with everything you’d want, and a clear match-of-the-year contender to boot!
Since January 4’s Wrestling Kingdom show, New Japan have been forced to undergo a few changes, thanks to the high-profile exists of four top stars. In spite of the losses of Messrs Styles, Nakamura, Gallows and Anderson, New Japan have kept rolling on, with Tetsuya Naito’s capture of the IWGP Heavyweight title sending the company in a new direction.