New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced the full card for their Wrestling Dontaku 2023 event, which takes place on May 3rd at the Fukuoka Convention Center in Hakata-ku, Japan. Wrestling Dontaku 2023 will air live on New Japan World starting at 5:00AM EST.
In regards to the pre-show match, this was announced to be a Gauntlet match featuring four Young Lions competitors with one of them to face the others in a potential series of three matches with a five minute time limit per match.
- Pre-show: Young Lions Consecutive Battle match – Yuto Nakashima vs. Ryohei Oiwa vs. Oskar Leube vs. Oleg Boltin
- YOH, Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI, & Hirooki Goto vs. Dick Togo, SHO, Yujiro Takahashi, & EVIL
- TMDK (Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, & Mikey Nicholls) vs. United Empire (Great-O-Khan & Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis))
- Kevin Knight, KUSHIDA, & Shota Umino vs. United Empire (Catch 2/2 (Francesco Akira, & TJP) & Aaron Henare)
- BUSHI, Shingo Takagi, & Tetsuya Naito vs. Just Five Guys (DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, & Taichi)
- Hikuleo vs. KENTA
- Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Jeff Cobb
- NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championship – Kazuchika Okada, TBA, & TBA vs. Strong Style (Ren Narita, El Desperado, & Minoru Suzuki) (c)
- NEVER Openweight Championship – David Finlay vs. Tama Tonga (c)
- IWGP World Heavyweight Championship – Hiromu Takahashi vs. SANADA (c)