Wrestling Dontaku 2025

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Wrestling Dontaku 2025 was a two-night professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on May 3 and 4, 2025, in Fukuoka, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center. It was the 20th event under the Wrestling Dontaku name.

The event was also notable for the final NJPW matches of Tetsuya Naito and Bushi as they would depart the company after the event.

Wrestling Dontaku featured 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.

The event started with the preshow singles confrontation between Daiki Nagai and Katsuya Murashima solded with the victory of the latter. In the first main card bout, Master Wato, Oleg Boltin, Toru Yano and Yoh picked up a victory over Hartley Jackson, Kosei Fujita, Robbie Eagles and Ryohei Oiwa in eight-man tag team competition. Next up, Tomohiro Ishii, Taichi, Taka Michinoku and Yuya Uemura defeated Bushi, Hiromu Takahashi, Tetsuya Naito and Yota Tsuji in another eight-man tag team competition bout. The fourth match saw Ryusuke Taguchi, Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi picked up a victory over Callum Newman, Great-O-Khan and Jakob Austin Young in six-man tag team competition. Next up, El Phantasmo and Konosuke Takeshita wrestled into a time-limit draw for the NJPW World Television Championship, rendering Phantasmo as the title retainer, having scored the first successful defense of the NJPW World Television Championship in that respective reign. The sixth bout saw Zack Sabre Jr. defeat Hiroshi Tanahashi in one of the latter's retirement road bouts. Next up, Shingo Takagi defeated Shota Umino in singles competition.

In the main event, Bullet Club War Dogs (David Finlay, Clark Connors, Drilla Moloney, Gabe Kidd and Taiji Ishimori) defeated House of Torture (Evil, Ren Narita, Sanada, Sho and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) in a loser leaves stable Dog Pound match. House of Torture members were kicked out of the Bullet Club in the process following the stipulation.

In the preshow tag team bout, Hitamaru Sasaki and Jet Wei from Kyushu Pro-Wrestling faced Katsuya Murashima and Ryusuke Taguchi in a losing effort.

In the first main card bout, Gedo and Taiji Ishimori picked up a victory over Batten Burabura and Mentai Kid in tag team competition. Next up, Master Wato and Yoshi-Hashi outmatched Great-O-Khan and Jakob Austin Young in tag team action. The fourth bout saw World Wonder Ring Stardom's Maika, Hazuki and Koguma defeat Starlight Kid, AZM and Yuna Mizumori in six-woman tag team competition. Next up, El Phantasmo and Oleg Boltin picked up a victory over Konosuke Takeshita and Rocky Romero in tag team competition. In the sixth bout, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano, Ryota Chikuzen, Tajiri and Yoh defeated Hartley Jackson, Kosei Fujita, Robbie Eagles, Ryohei Oiwa and Zack Sabre Jr. in ten-man tag team competition as one of Tanahashi's retirement road matches. Next up, Bushi, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito defeated Taichi, Taka Michinoku, Shota Umino and Tomohiro Ishii in eight-man tag team competition which represented Naito and Bushi's last match in NJPW before their departures.

In the semi main event, Yota Tsuji defeated Yuya Uemura to secure the fourth consecutive defense of the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship in that respective reign. After the bout concluded, Tetsuya Naito passed the leadership of Los Ingobernables de Japon to Tsuji. Gabe Kidd stepped up to challenge Tsuji for the Global title in a match which was scheduled to take place at Dominion 6.15 in Osaka-jo Hall.

In the main event, Hirooki Goto defeated Callum Newman to secure the fifth consecutive defense of the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship in that respective reign. After the bout concluded, Zack Sabre Jr. challenged Goto for the title. Shingo Takagi also stepped up for a challenge, demanding that he would face the winner between Goto and Sabre for the title.

• The official New Japan Pro-Wrestling website