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Promotional poster for the event, featuring caricatures of several NJPW wrestlers
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Promotion | New Japan Pro-Wrestling | |||
Date | May 3, 2014 | |||
Attendance | 7,190 | |||
Venue | Fukuoka Kokusai Center | |||
City | Fukuoka, Japan | |||
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Wrestling Dontaku 2014 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on May 3, 2014, in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center. The event featured ten matches (including one dark match), five of which were contested for championships. It was the eleventh event under the Wrestling Dontaku name.
Wrestling Dontaku 2014 featured ten 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.
In the first title match of the event, The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) successfully defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against former two-time champions, Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero), who had earned their title shot during NJPW's April trip to Taiwan. The second title match featured the NJPW debut of National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) representative Wes Brisco, who unsuccessfully challenged Satoshi Kojima for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, which his uncle Jack has held in the past. The third title match saw Ryusuke Taguchi return to the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship picture by challenging Kota Ibushi. Taguchi, coming off a big grudge match win over Prince Devitt at Invasion Attack 2014, had challenged Ibushi for the title twice before, but was defeated both times. The match at Wrestling Dontaku 2014 ended with the same result with Ibushi making his third successful title defense. The fourth title match featured Tomohiro Ishii also making his third successful defense of the NEVER Openweight Championship against Tomoaki Honma, avenging a six-man tag team loss from April 19 in the process. Post-match, Ishii was challenged by Ibushi.