Wrestling Dontaku 2019

Wrestling Dontaku 2019 is an upcoming professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event will take place on two nights May 3 and 4, 2019, in Fukuoka, Fukuoka at Fukuoka Kokusai Center. Both nights will feature eight matches, two of which are contested for championships in the first night and the second one of which are contested for championships. The first night will be headlined by Dragon Lee defending the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Taiji Ishimori and the second night was headlined by Kazuchika Okada after defending the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against SANADA. This was the sixteenth event under the Wrestling Dontaku name.

Storylines
Both nights of Wrestling Dontaku 2019 willl featured professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.

The first night of Wrestling Dontaku 2019 was headlined by Dragon Lee making his first title defense of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Taiji Ishimori. On March 6, 2019, at NJPW's 47th-anniversary show, after Ishimori retained the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Jushin Thunder Liger, Ishimori challenged anyone from Ring of Honor to face him in a match at G1 Supercard for his title. Afterwards, Ishimori's challenged was accepted by Dragon Lee, who confronted him and instead he would be representing Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). On April 6 at G1 Supercard, Ishimori lost the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship to Lee in a three-way match, also involving Bandido. Afterwards, Ishimori challenged Lee to a rematch, but as a singles match. The title match was announced on April 8.