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Wrestling Dontaku 2012

Wrestling Dontaku 2012
Wrestling Dontaku 2012.jpg
Promotional poster for the event, featuring various NJPW wrestlers
Information
Promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling
Date May 3, 2012
Attendance 6,500
Venue Fukuoka Kokusai Center
City Fukuoka, Japan
Pay-per-view chronology
Hataage Kinenbi (2012) Wrestling Dontaku 2012 Dominion 6.16
Wrestling Dontaku chronology
Wrestling Dontaku 2011 Wrestling Dontaku 2012 Wrestling Dontaku 2013

Wrestling Dontaku 2012 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on May 3, 2012, in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center. The event featured nine matches, three of which were contested for championships. It was the ninth event under the Wrestling Dontaku name.

Wrestling Dontaku 2012 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.

No Remorse Corps (Davey Richards and Rocky Romero) were originally scheduled to defend the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask during the event, however, Richards was unable to make his flight to Japan due to a car accident. As a result, NJPW stripped Richards and Romero of the title and stopped working with Richards. The event featured two titles changing hands, with Low Ki defeating Prince Devitt for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship and Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano defeating Tencozy Police (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima) for the IWGP Tag Team Championship. In the main event, IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada successfully defended his title against the winner of the 2012 New Japan Cup, Hirooki Goto.


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