Wrestling Dontaku 2010
{{Infobox Wrestling event
|name=Wrestling Dontaku 2010
|image=
|promotion=New Japan Pro-Wrestling
|venue=Fukuoka Kokusai Center
|liveevent=
|lastevent=Circuit 2010: New Japan Ism
|nextevent=Dominion 6.19
|event=Wrestling Dontaku
|lastevent2=2009
|nextevent2=2011
|event3=New Japan Pro-Wrestling events
|lastevent4 = Wrestle Kingdom IV
|nextevent4 = Dominion 6.19
}}
Wrestling Dontaku 2010 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on May 3, 2010, in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center. The event featured nine matches (including one dark match), four of which were contested for championships.{{cite web | url = http://www.njpw.co.jp/match/detail_result.php?e=30 | script-title=ja:レスリングどんたく2010 | accessdate=October 18, 2013 | work=New Japan Pro-Wrestling | language=Japanese}}{{cite web | url = http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/japan/newjapan/dontaku.html#2010 | title = Wrestling Dontaku 2010 | accessdate=August 14, 2015 | work=Pro Wrestling History}} It was the seventh event under the Wrestling Dontaku name.
Storylines
Wrestling Dontaku 2010 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.{{cite web | url = http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/pro-wrestling.htm | title = How Pro Wrestling Works | last=Grabianowski | first=Ed | accessdate=September 13, 2014 | work=HowStuffWorks, Inc. | publisher=Discovery Communications}}
Event
In the third match, NJPW veteran Jyushin Thunder Liger defeated Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) representative Negro Casas to win the CMLL World Middleweight Championship. The event also featured the continuation of a three-way tag team rivalry between Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson), No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro Takahashi) and Seigigun (Wataru Inoue and Yuji Nagata), with Seigigun capturing the IWGP Tag Team Championship from No Limit. Pro Wrestling Noah's Naomichi Marufuji successfully defended his IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Ryusuke Taguchi during the event. In the main event, Togi Makabe, a decade after his first Wrestling Dontaku appearance, defeated Shinsuke Nakamura to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship for the first time.{{-}}
Results
{{Pro Wrestling results table
|match1=Mitsuhide Hirasawa defeated Nobuo Yoshihashi
|stip1=Singles match
|time1=05:44
|note1=dark
|match2=Akira, Tiger Mask and Tomoaki Honma defeated Chaos (Gedo, Takashi Iizuka and Tomohiro Ishii)
|stip2=Six-man tag team match
|time2=07:56
|match3=Manabu Nakanishi defeated King Fale by submission
|stip3=Singles match
|time3=08:15
|match4=Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Negro Casas (c)
|stip4=Singles match for the CMLL World Middleweight Championship
|time4=10:04
|match5=Seigigun (Wataru Inoue and Yuji Nagata) defeated No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro Takahashi) (c) and Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson)
|stip5=Three-way tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship
|time5=12:20
|match6=Hirooki Goto vs. Masato Tanaka ended in a draw
|stip6=Singles match
|time6=13:41
|match7=Naomichi Marufuji (c) defeated Ryusuke Taguchi
|stip7=Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
|time7=22:40
|match8=Toru Yano defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi
|stip8=Singles match
|time8=16:57
|match9=Togi Makabe defeated Shinsuke Nakamura (c)
|stip9=Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship
|time9=18:18
}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.njpw.co.jp/ The official New Japan Pro-Wrestling website]
{{2006 NJPW events}}
{{New Japan Pro Wrestling events|Wrestling Dontaku}}