NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2025 Results

NJPW took over the Fukuoka Convention Center in Fukuoka for the second billing of their Wrestling Dontaku event earlier today, and it proved to be a very emotional night for the promotion. The show marked the final NJPW match for the iconic Tetsuya Naito, whose NJPW exit was revealed last month. BUSHI will also be following Naito out, with this marking his final appearance too. 

Naito & BUSHI teamed up with fellow Los Ingobernables de Japon members Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi, taking on Just 4 Guys, Tomohiro Ishii & Shota Umino in a winning effort to bow out on their NJPW careers. The likes of Ishii dominated some of the early offense in the match, but Naito would unleash with a hot tag, showcasing all his greatest hits, as did BUSHI. In the end, it was Takagi who won for his team, hitting the Last Of The Dragon on Taka Michinoku. 

The night two show was headlined by two big title matches, with the main event seeing Hirooki Goto successfully defend the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Callum Newman. Goto began the match in control until Newman nailed a plancha to even the score. After a vertical drop was hit on Goto, the champion got back into the match, and the pair went back and forth with some impactful dropkicks, dives, brutal forearms, and even a spit in the face from Newman to Goto. As the match pressed on, a GTR scored a near-fall. Newman was gradually tiring, but he managed to hit a Rainmaker for a close two count, but in the end it was Goto who retained, hitting two GTR’s to get the job done. Post-match, Zack Sabre Jr declared first dibs on a title shot. 

Elsewhere, Yota Tsuji successfully defended the IWGP Global Championship against rival Yuyu Uemara, adding another great bout to their catalog. Naito, BUSHI and Los Ingobernales de Japon emerged in the aftermath, with Tsuji taking the kneeling position of Naito as the former champion bade his farewell. In the aftermath, Gabe Kidd challenged Tsuji to a match at Dominion on June 15. 

On Night One, the most notable happenings saw House Of Torture expelled from BULLET CLUB, losing in a main event ten man Steel Cage match against the War Dogs, where the losing faction would be kicked out of the wider BULLET CLUB group. Both Zack Sabre Jr & Shingo Takagi would also put themselves in world title contention with two big wins over Hiroshi Tanahashi and Shota Umino respectively. 

The full results from NJPW Wrestling Dontaku are as follows;

Night One: 

• Katsuya Murashima defeated Daika Nagai 
• Oleg Boltin, Master Wato, Toru Yano & YOH defeated TMDK (Robbie Eagles, Hartley Jackson, Kosei Fujita & Ryohai Oiwa
• Just 4 Guys (Taichi, Taka Michinoku, Yuyu Uemura) & Tomohiro Ishii defeated Los Ingobernables de Japón (BUSHI, Tetsuya Naito, Yota Tsuji & Hiromu Takahashi)
• Bishimon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI) & Ryusuke Taguchi defeated United Empire (Callum Newman, Great-O-Khan & Jakob Austin Young 
• El Phantasmo (c) vs. Konosuke Takeshita ended in a time limit draw - NJPW World TV Championship
• Zack Sabre Jr defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi
• Shingo Takagi defeated Shota Umino
• War Dogs (Gabe Kidd, David Finlay, Clark Connors, Drilla Maloney & Taiki Ishimori) defeated House Of Torture (EVIL, SANADA, SHO, Ren Narita & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) - Steel Cage, Loser Leaves BULLET CLUB

Night Two:

• BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Gedo & Taiji Ishimori) defeated Mentai Kid & Batten Blabla 
• Master Wato & YOSHI-HASHI defeated United Empire (Great-O-Khan & Jakob Austin Young)
• Maika & STARS (Hazuki & Koguma) defeated Neo Genesis (AZM & Starlight Kid) & Yuna Mizumori 
• Oleg Boltin & El Phantasmo defeated The Don Callis Family (Konosuke Takeshita & Rocky Romero)
• Be-Bop Tag Team (Hiroshi Tanahashi & Toru Yano), Tajiri, YOH & Ryota Chikuzen defeated TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr, Ryohei Oiwa, Robbie Eagles, Kosei Fujita & Hartley Jackson)
• Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI, Shingo Takahi & Hiromu Takahashi) defeated Just 4 Guys (Taichi & Taka Michinoku), Tomohiro Ishii & Shota Umino
• Yota Tsuji (c) defeated Yuyu Uemara - IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship 
• Hirooki Goto (c) defeated Callum Newman - IWGP Heavyweight Championship

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