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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.
[1]
[2] 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.
[3]
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.
[1] 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.
[1]
Pro Wrestling Noah's
Naomichi Marufuji successfully defended his
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against
Ryusuke Taguchi during the event.
[1] 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.
[1]
Results
References
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