The January 4 Tokyo Dome Show is a major show, held by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), held annually on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome. NJPW often invites other promotions, Japanese and international, to participate in their January 4 Tokyo Dome Shows as well including several companies that have been involved in scripted inter-promotional rivalries such as UWF International (UWFi), Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW), All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), Pro Wrestling ZERO1 and Pro Wrestling NOAH, as well as representatives from the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion. The shows have regularly featured wrestlers from American promotions such as World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and has on these occasions been shown either partially or in full in the American market.
It has become an annual event that starts the new year in NJPW since its inception in 1992. NJPW have held shows at the Tokyo Dome as far back as April 24, 1989, but their January 4 show has become the most anticipated show on NJPW calendar. It is Japan's biggest wrestling event and NJPW's premier show, similar to what the WrestleMania is for the WWE. The first two January 4 Tokyo Dome Shows were also the last two WCW/New Japan Supershows. Since 2007, when the event was renamed "Wrestle Kingdom in Tokyo Dome", the Dome shows have been broadcast on pay-per-view (PPV). As of 2019 all the Dome shows have featured championship matches, including several titles not owned by NJPW. On three occasions (1998, 2006 and 2013), no titles changed hands during the show. The 1993 Tokyo Dome show set the attendance record with 63,500 fans packing the Tokyo Dome, while the 2007 Dome show drew the lowest gates with only 18,000 in attendance.
Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome
The first ever January 4 Tokyo Dome show held by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) was called Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome and would start the tradition of NJPW holding their biggest show of the year on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome, making it their Super Bowl or WrestleMania event. It was promoted in conjunction with the American-based World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The show featured a mixture of NJPW and WCW wrestlers facing each other, with most of the matches that included WCW wrestlers being shown in North America as a PPV under the name WCW/New Japan Supershow II. The show drew 50,000 spectators for a gate of the equivalent of $3,700,000 at the exchange rate at the time.[1] The show featured 12 matches, including two dark matches, matches held before the PPV broadcast began. Six of the twelve bouts featured wrestlers from WCW. On the show Lex Luger successfully defended his WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Masahiro Chono, while the main event saw Riki Choshu defeated Tatsumi Fujinami. The match unified the Greatest 18 Club Championship and the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. Japanese heavy metal band Show-Ya performed live music between matches and performed theme music for a match where The Great Muta and Sting wrestled The Steiner Brothers.
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1D | Black Cat defeated Hiroyoshi Yamamoto | Singles Match | 10:28 |
| 2D | Osamu Kido and Kuniaki Kobayashi defeated Kantaro Hoshino and Kengo Kimura | Tag team match | 11:54 |
| 3 | Akira Nogami, Masashi Aoyagi and Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Norio Honaga, Hiro Saito and Super Strong Machine | Six-man tag team match | 15:12 |
| 4 | Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko defeated Shiro Koshinaka and Michiyoshi Ohara | Tag team match | 12:32 |
| 5 | Dustin Rhodes and Dusty Rhodes defeated Kim Duk and Masa Saito | Tag team match | 14:23 |
| 6 | Tony Halme defeated Scott Norton | Singles Match | 08:41 |
| 7 | Shinya Hashimoto defeated Bill Kazmaier | Singles Match | 08:37 |
| 8 | Big Van Vader vs. El Gigante ended in a double disqualification | Singles Match | 04:49 |
| 9 | Antonio Inoki defeated Hiroshi Hase | Singles Match | 10:09 |
| 10 | The Great Muta and Sting defeated The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) | Tag team match | 11:03 |
| 11 | Lex Luger (c) defeated Masahiro Chono | Singles match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | 15:09 |
| 12 | Riki Choshu (c) defeated Tatsumi Fujinami (c) | Singles match for both the The Greatest 18 Club Championship (Choshu) and the IWGP Heavyweight Championship (Fujinami) | 12:11 |
Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome
Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome was the title of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that takes place on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome. The show drew 63,500 spectators and $3,200,000 in ticket sales.[2] This was the second year that the show was co-promoted by the American World Championship Wrestling (WCW) promotion. The show was later shown on pay-per-view (PPV) in North America as WCW/New Japan Supershow III. The show featured 10 matches, including four matches that featured WCW wrestlers. Fantastic Story featured three title matches, including Jushin Thunder Liger defeating Último Dragón to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship. IWGP Heavyweight Champion The Great Muta defeating Masahiro Chono to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in a match where the IWGP title was also on the line. Finally the show featured an IWGP Tag Team Championship match between The Hell Raisers (Hawk Warrior and Power Warrior) and The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) that ended without a definitive winner.
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Takayuki Iizuka, Akira Nogami and El Samurai defeated Nobukazu Hirai, Koki Kitahara and Masao Orihara | Six-man tag team match | 15:11 |
| 2 | Akitoshi Saito, The Great Kabuki, Masashi Aoyagi and Shiro Koshinaka defeated Hiro Saito, Norio Honaga and Super Strong Machine and Tatsutoshi Goto | Eight-man tag team match | 14:20 |
| 3 | Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Último Dragón (c) | Singles Match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship. | 20:09 |
| 4 | Ron Simmons defeated Tony Halme | Singles Match | 06:10 |
| 5 | Sting defeated Hiroshi Hase | Singles Match | 15:31 |
| 6 | Masa Saito and Shinya Hashimoto defeated Dustin Rhodes and Scott Norton | Tag team match | 13:57 |
| 7 | The Great Muta (c) defeated Masahiro Chono (c) | Singles match for both the IWGP Heavyweight Championship (Muta) and the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (Chono) | 19:48 |
| 8 | The Hell Raisers (Hawk Warrior and Power Warrior) (c) wrestled The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) to a double countout | Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship | 14:38 |
| 9 | Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Takashi Ishikawa | Singles Match | 11:41 |
| 10 | Genichiro Tenryu defeated Riki Choshu | Singles Match | 18:14 |
Battlefield
Battlefield was the title of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that takes place on January 4 each year in the Tokyo Dome. The show drew 48,000 spectators. Unlike the previous two years events the 1994 show was not billed as being co-promoted by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) although it did feature former WCW wrestlers The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott), who were working for WCW's rival, World Wrestling Federation (WWF), at the time. The show also featured Brutus Beefcake and Hulk Hogan before they began working with WCW, working freelance for NJPW for one night.
The show featured 11 matches in total, including two title matches that saw The Hell Raisers (Hawk and Power Warrior) defeat The Jurassic Powers (Hercules Hernandez and Scott Norton) to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship while Shinya Hashimoto successfully defended the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Masahiro Chono. The show also featured a Mask vs. Mask match where Tiger Mask was unmasked and revealed as Koji Kanemoto. It would be several years before a new Tiger Mask, the fourth Tiger Mask began using the ring persona and not until after the turn of the millennia that the Tiger Mask character would appear in NJPW.
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Great Kabuki, Kengo Kimura, Kuniaki Kobayashi, Michiyoshi Ohara and Shiro Koshinaka defeated El Samurai, Manabu Nakanishi, Osamu Kido, Satoshi Kojima and Yuji Nagata | Ten-man tag team match | 12:09 |
| 2 | Akira Nogami and Takayuki Iizuka defeated Akitoshi Saito and Masashi Aoyagi | Tag team match | 14:07 |
| 3 | Brutus Beefcake defeated Black Cat | Singles Match | 08:06 |
| 4 | Super Strong Machine defeated Tatsutoshi Goto | Singles Match | 08:51 |
| 5 | Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Tiger Mask | Mask vs. Mask match | 14:26 |
| 6 | The Hell Raisers (Hawk and Power Warrior) defeated The Jurassic Powers (Hercules Hernandez and Scott Norton) (c) | Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship | 12:47 |
| 7 | The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) defeated Hiroshi Hase and Keiji Mutoh | Tag team match | 20:51 |
| 8 | Hulk Hogan defeated Tatsumi Fujinami | Singles Match | 13:33 |
| 9 | Riki Choshu defeated Yoshiaki Fujiwara | Singles Match | 09:04 |
| 10 | Shinya Hashimoto (c) defeated Masahiro Chono | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 28:00 |
| 11 | Genichiro Tenryu defeated Antonio Inoki | Singles match | 15:56 |
Battle 7
Battle 7 was the title of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that traditionally takes place on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome. Battle 7 was the fourth January 4 Tokyo Dome Show held by NJPW. The show drew 52,500 spectators and $4,800,000 in ticket sales.[4] Besides NJPW Wrestlers the show also featured Sting from World Championship Wrestling and former WCW stars The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) as well as freelance wrestlers Tiger Jeet Singh and Tiger Jeet Singh, Jr.. The show featured a four-man "Final Countdown BVD" tournament, named after NJPW sponsor BVD. The 1995 show marked the first time a non-NJPW title was defended as Shinjiro Otani defended the UWA World Welterweight Championship (originated in the Universal Wrestling Association in Mexico) against El Samurai.
- Match results
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shinjiro Otani (c) defeated El Samurai | Singles match for the UWA World Welterweight Championship | 15:17 |
| 2 | Norio Honaga (c) defeated The Great Sasuke | Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | 14:39 |
| 3 | Akitoshi Saito, The Great Kabuki and Kuniaki Kobayashi defeated Akira Nogami, Osamu Kido and Takayuki Iizuka | Six-man tag team match | 13:12 |
| 4 | Koji Kanemoto defeated Yuji Nagata | Singles match | 14:43 |
| 5 | Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeated Manabu Nakanishi | Singles match | 07:40 |
| 6 | Tiger Jeet Singh and Tiger Jeet Singh, Jr. defeated Michiyoshi Ohara and Shiro Koshinaka | Tag team match | 11:23 |
| 7 | Sting defeated Tony Palmore | Singles match: semifinals of the "Final Countdown BVD" tournament | 04:29 |
| 8 | Antonio Inoki defeated Gerard Gordeau | Singles match: semifinals of the "Final Countdown BVD" tournament | 06:37 |
| 9 | Riki Choshu and Yoshiaki Yatsu defeated Kengo Kimura and Tatsutoshi Goto | Tag team match | 12:32 |
| 10 | Masahiro Chono and Sabu defeated Junji Hirata and Tatsumi Fujinami | Tag team match | 11:18 |
| 11 | Hawk defeated Scott Norton | Singles match | 07:41 |
| 12 | Antonio Inoki defeated Sting | Singles match: finals of the "Final Countdown BVD" tournament | 10:26 |
| 13 | Hiroshi Hase and Keiji Mutoh (c) defeated The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) | Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship | 25:12 |
| 14 | Shinya Hashimoto (c) defeated Kensuke Sasaki | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 19:36 |
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- Final Countdown BVD tournament bracket
| Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||
| Tony Palmore | Sub | ||||||||
| Sting | 04:29 | ||||||||
| Sting | Sub | ||||||||
| Antonio Inoki | 10:26 | ||||||||
| Gerard Gordeau | Sub | ||||||||
| Antonio Inoki | 06:37 | ||||||||
Wrestling World 1996
Wrestling World 1996 was the title of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that traditionally takes place on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome. Wrestling World 1996 was the fifth January 4 Tokyo Dome Show held by NJPW. The show drew 54,000 spectators and $5,400,000 in ticket sales.[5] The driving storyline behind the show was an "inter-promotional" rivalry between NJPW and Union of Wrestling Forces International (UWFi) which faced off in a series of three matches. Hiroshi Hase's retirement match against his former tag team partner Kensuke Sasaki was also part of the elaborate card. The main event of the show was IWGP Heavyweight Champion Keiji Mutoh losing the championship to UWFi representative Nobuhiko Takada. The undercard featured an additional title change as Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Koji Kanemoto to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship. In total the show consisted of 10 matches.
- Match results
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shinjiro Otani, Tokimitsu Ishizawa and Yuji Nagata defeated Hiromitsu Kanehara, Kazushi Sakuraba and Kenichi Yamamoto | Six-man tag team match: NJPW (1) vs. UWFi (0) | 10:15 |
| 2 | Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeated Satoshi Kojima | Singles match | 09:24 |
| 3 | Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Koji Kanemoto (c) | Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | 18:59 |
| 4 | Shiro Koshinaka defeated Masahiro Chono | Singles match | 09:49 |
| 5 | Hiromichi Fuyuki defeated Yoji Anjo | Singles match | 06:42 |
| 6 | Kensuke Sasaki defeated Hiroshi Hase | Singles match | 16:36 |
| 7 | Antonio Inoki defeated Big Van Vader | Singles match | 14:16 |
| 8 | Riki Choshu defeated Masahito Kakihara | Singles match: NJPW (2) vs. UWFi (0) | 05:46 |
| 9 | Shinya Hashimoto defeated Kazuo Yamazaki | Singles match | 09:18 |
| 10 | Nobuhiko Takada defeated Keiji Mutoh (c) | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship: NJPW (2) vs. UWFi (1) | 17:51 |
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Wrestling World 1997
Wrestling World 1997 was the title of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that takes place on January 4 each year in the Tokyo Dome. The show drew 62,500 spectators and $5,000,000 in ticket sales.[6] The show featured 12 matches, including four matches that were promoted jointly with the Big Japan Pro Wrestling promotion and presented as a rivalry between the two promotions. The show featured 12 matches in total, including three title matches, two of which saw new champions crowned.
The first match of the show was na eight-man tag team match which on one side featured Junji Hirata, Satoshi Kojima, Manabu Nakanishi and Osamu Nishimura going against Takashi Iizuka, Osamu Kido, Yuji Nagata and Kazuo Yamazaki. The contest lasted for 11:21 before Junji Hirata pinned Yuji Nagata after striking him with a lariat.[6][7] This was the last match Nagata wrestled in Japan before travelling to the United States to work for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as part of an "educational tour" that a lot of young Japanese wrestlers undertake to learn various styles of wrestling.[6]
The second match of the night featured the debut of a character called "Super Liger", a silver and white version of Jushin Thunder Liger played by Chris Jericho. Super Liger wrestled Koji Kanemoto in what Power Slam Magazine correspondent Rob Butcher called "A super aerial battle". Super Liger won after 11 minutes and 11 seconds of action by using a bridging tiger suplex to pin Kanemoto.[6][7] NJPW intended to use "Super Liger" character as a storyline enemy of Jushin Thunder Liger, hoping to create a rivalry similar to the Tiger Mask vs. Black Tiger rivalry.[6] However, the character was so poorly received that it was never used again.[8]
In the third match freelancer Jinsei Shinzaki defeated longtime NJPW midcarder Michiyoshi Ohara after using the Nenbutsu powerbomb.[6][7]
Matches four, five, six and seven featured a "New Japan Pro Wrestling vs. Big Japan Pro Wrestling" (BJW) premise as wrestlers representing the two companies wrestled against each other. In previous years NJPW had great success promoting "inter-promotional rivalries" against UWF International, only this time they were working with the much smaller BJW.[6] In the first match Shinjiro Otani defeated Yoshihiro Tajiri after a flying heel kick in what was described as the best contest of the NJPW vs. BJW series.[6] Kendo Nagasaki defeated Tatsutoshi Goto to even the score to 1–1.[6][7] NJPW headliner Masahiro Chono made very short work of BJW wrestler Shoji Nakamaki, defeating him with a Yakuza kick in just over a minute.[6][7] The final match of the series saw NJPW veteran Masa Saito defeat BJW president Shinya Kojika, who wrestled under the ring name The Great Kojika, to win the series 3 to 1.[6][7]
Match number eight was billed as a Mixed Martial Arts match although it was still as predetermined as all the other matches of the night. NJPW founder Antonio Inoki took on Martial Artis Willie Williams in a rematch from a highly publicized match from 1980. In the end Inoki forced Williams to submit to a ground cobra twist after 4:19.[6][7]
The ninth match of the evening was originally supposed be for nine championships in total, but at the last minute WCW had not allowed Último Dragón to put the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship on the line in the match, Dragón still defended the J-Crown Championship, a championship consisting of eight unified titles. His opponent of the night was Jushin Thunder Liger, the driving force behind NJPW's very successful Light Heavyweight division and multiple time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship holder, a belt that at the time was part of the J-Crown.[6] Liger and Dragón had previously wrestled at the 1993 January 4 Tokyo Dome show called Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome.[2] After over 18 minutes of high flying wrestling Liger pinned Dragón following a Steiner Screwdriver to become the fourth J-Crown holder.[6][7]
The storyline going into the tenth match of the evening was that of the first ever holders of the IWGP Tag Team Championship wanted "one last chance at the title that made them famous" before retirement. Fujinami and Kimura took on Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Masahiro Chono (who had already wrestled that night, albeit in a very short match) for the IWGP Tag Team Championship. While the age of the challengers prevented the match from being a good wrestling match the antics of Tenzan and Chono and the emotion of the challengers "last stand" created a match the crowd in the Tokyo Dome enjoyed.[6] The end came after Tenzan accidentally hit his partner, allowing Fujinami to apply a dragon sleeper on Chono to force him to submit.[6][7] With this victory Fujinami and Kimura became four-time tag team champions and the 29th overall champions.[6]
The semi-main event of the evening was billed as a "battle of the alter egos" as Keiji Mutoh reverted to his "Great Muta" character and Kensuke Sasaki wrestled as "Power Warrior". While Mutoh and Sasaki tended to wrestle a more scientific style their face painted alter egos tended to brawl more. The match quickly turned into more of a brawl than a wrestling match with both participants using the ringside tables and a steel chair during the match. Power Warrior won after moving out of the way of a Moonsault from Muta allowing him to drive Muta into a table with his Northern Lights bomb for the victory.[6][7]
The main event of the show featured the same "last stand" storyline that was used in the tag team title match as NJPW veteran Riki Choshu challenged Shinya Hashimoto for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. In August, 1996 Choshu had surprisingly defeated Hashimoto during the 1996 G1 Climax tournament. Unlike their encounter in 1996 and unlike the tag team championship match the "legend" did not prevail in this match as Hashimoto pinned Choshu after a brainbuster following 18:04 of wrestling.
- Match results
| # | Results[6] | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Junji Hirata, Manabu Nakanishi, Osamu Nishimura and Satoshi Kojima defeated Kazuo Yamazaki, Osamu Kido, Takayuki Iizuka and Yuji Nagata | Eight-man tag team match | 11:21 |
| 2 | Super Liger defeated Koji Kanemoto | Singles match | 11:11 |
| 3 | Jinsei Shinzaki defeated Michiyoshi Ohara | Singles match | 09:17 |
| 4 | Shinjiro Otani defeated Yoshihiro Tajiri | Singles match: NJPW (1) vs. BJW (0) | 08:30 |
| 5 | Kendo Nagasaki defeated Tatsutoshi Goto | Singles match: NJPW (1) vs. BJW (1) | 09:23 |
| 6 | Masahiro Chono defeated Shoji Nakamaki | Singles match: NJPW (2) vs. BJW (1) | 01:07 |
| 7 | Masa Saito defeated Shinya Kojika | Singles match: NJPW (3) vs. BJW (1) | 04:25 |
| 8 | Antonio Inoki defeated Willie Williams | Mixed martial arts match | 04:19 |
| 9 | Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Último Dragón (c) | Singles match for the J-Crown Championship | 18:21 |
| 10 | Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Cho-Ten (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Masahiro Chono) (c) | Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship | 16:10 |
| 11 | Power Warrior defeated The Great Muta | Singles match | 16:09 |
| 12 | Shinya Hashimoto (c) defeated Riki Choshu | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 18:04 |
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Final Power Hall in Tokyo Dome
Final Power Hall in Tokyo Dome was the title of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that takes place on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome each year. Final Power Hall in Tokyo Dome was the seventh January 4 Tokyo Dome Show held by NJPW. The show drew 62,500 spectators and $6,000,000 in ticket sales.[9] One of the focal points of the show was the retirement of wrestling legend Riki Choshu, who would wrestle five times that night against select opponents in what was billed as the Riki Road Final Message 5, the completion of month-long "retirement tour" for Choshu. The show also featured successful defenses of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship and the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, which made Final Power Hall in Tokyo Dome the first January 4 Tokyo Dome show to not have a single championship change hands. Besides the five Riki Road Final Message 5 matches the show featured eight additional matches.
- Match results
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kendo Kashin defeated Koji Kanemoto | Singles match | 12:01 |
| 2 | Shinjiro Otani (c) defeated Último Dragón | Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | 17:06 |
| 3 | Yuji Nagata defeated Hiroyoshi Tenzan | Singles match | 11:33 |
| 4 | Osamu Nishimura and Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Manabu Nakanishi and Satoshi Kojima | Tag team match | 12:39 |
| 5 | Riki Choshu defeated Kazuyuki Fujita | Singles match: Riki Road Final Message 5 | 03:57 |
| 6 | Riki Choshu defeated Yutaka Yoshie | Singles match: Riki Road Final Message 5 | 01:42 |
| 7 | Riki Choshu defeated Tatsuhito Takaiwa | Singles match: Riki Road Final Message 5 | 01:21 |
| 8 | Takashi Iizuka defeated Riki Choshu | Singles match: Riki Road Final Message 5 | 02:02 |
| 9 | Riki Choshu defeated Jushin Thunder Liger | Singles match: Riki Road Final Message 5 | 05:09 |
| 10 | Don Frye defeated Naoya Ogawa via referee stoppage | Singles match | 08:47 |
| 11 | Shinya Hashimoto defeated Dennis Lane via referee stoppage | Singles match | 01:34 |
| 12 | Masahiro Chono defeated Shiro Koshinaka | Singles match | 15:05 |
| 13 | Kensuke Sasaki (c) defeated Keiji Mutoh | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 25:18 |
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Wrestling World 1999
Wrestling World 1999 was the title of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that takes place on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome each year. Wrestling World 1999 was the eight January 4 Tokyo Dome Show held by NJPW. The show drew 52,500 spectators and $5,300,000 in ticket sales.[10] The show featured 10 matches in total including four championship matches, three of which saw the championship change hands.
- Match results
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manabu Nakanishi defeated Kazuyuki Fujita | Singles match | 11:10 |
| 2 | Osamu Kido, Tadao Yasuda and Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Kengo Kimura, Michiyoshi Ohara and Tatsutoshi Goto | Six-man tag team match | 09:17 |
| 3 | Dr. Wagner Jr. and Kendo Kashin defeated Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa (c) | Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship | 16:53 |
| 4 | Jushin Thunder Liger (c) defeated Koji Kanemoto | Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | 23:11 |
| 5 | Kensuke Sasaki defeated Atsushi Onita by disqualification | Singles match | 05:55 |
| 6 | Yuji Nagata defeated David Beneteau | Singles match | 05:30 |
| 7 | Don Frye defeated Brian Johnston via referee stoppage | Singles match | 07:55 |
| 8 | Shinya Hashimoto wrestled Naoya Ogawa to a no contest | Singles match | 06:58 |
| 9 | Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima) defeated Genichiro Tenryu and Shiro Koshinaka (c) | Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship | 16:35 |
| 10 | Keiji Mutoh defeated Scott Norton (c) | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 19:01 |
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Wrestling World 2000
Wrestling World 2000 was the title of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that takes place on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome each year. Wrestling World 2000 was the ninth January 4 Tokyo Dome Show held by NJPW. The show drew 53,500 spectators and $5,900,000 in ticket sales.[11] The event saw the return of World Championship Wrestling's Chris Benoit under the ring name Wild Pegasus, reprising the character he played for NJPW in the early to mid-1990s. The show also featured Rick Steiner and Randy Savage, both working as freelancers brought in specifically for the show. The twelve match card saw a successful defense of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship and the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship as well as Kensuke Sasaki defeating Genichiro Tenryu to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. The undercard featured a match between Masahiro Chono defeated Keiji Mutoh bearing a stipulation that the losing wrestler's faction would have to disband. Chono represented Team 2000, while Mutoh represented nWo Japan. Through Mutoh's loss nWo Japan ceased to be. It also featured the retirement match of Kazuo Yamazaki, as he wrestled his student, Yuji Nagata.
- Match results
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa (c) defeated Kendo Kashin and Minoru Tanaka | Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship | 13:19 |
| 2 | Shiro Koshinaka defeated Satoshi Kojima | Singles match | 10:17 |
| 3 | Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeated Wild Pegasus | Singles match | 10:55 |
| 4 | Jushin Thunder Liger (c) defeated Koji Kanemoto | Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | 03:56 |
| 5 | Manabu Nakanishi defeated Kenzo Suzuki | Singles match | 06:41 |
| 6 | Yuji Nagata defeated Kazuo Yamazaki | Singles match | 06:44 |
| 7 | Kimo defeated Kazuyuki Fujita by disqualification | Singles match | 04:02 |
| 8 | Scott Norton defeated Don Frye | Singles match | 08:50 |
| 9 | Rick Steiner defeated Randy Savage | Singles match | 11:08 |
| 10 | Shinya Hashimoto and Takashi Iizuka defeated Kazunari Murakami and Naoya Ogawa | Tag team match | 11:29 |
| 11 | Masahiro Chono defeated Keiji Mutoh | Singles match, if Mutoh loses nWo Japan is forced to disband | 25:00 |
| 12 | Kensuke Sasaki defeated Genichiro Tenryu (c) | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 14:43 |
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Wrestling World 2001
Wrestling World 2001 was the title of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that takes place on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome each year. Wrestling World 2001 was the tenth January 4 Tokyo Dome Show held by NJPW. The show drew 52,000 spectators.[12] The focal point of Wrestling World 2001 was a tournament to crown a new IWGP Heavyweight Champion, which accounted for five of the nine matches on the show. No other championships were defended in 2001, marking the first year that only one title was on the line. The show saw Toshiaki Kawada wrestle twice; Kawada had previously been one of the main event wrestlers of NJPW's biggest rival All Japan Pro Wrestling.
- Match results
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kensuke Sasaki defeated Satoshi Kojima | Singles match: IWGP Heavyweight Championship tournament quarter-final | 16:33 |
| 2 | Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeated Yuji Nagata | Singles match: IWGP Heavyweight Championship tournament quarter-final | 16:45 |
| 3 | Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka defeated Shinya Makabe and Tatsuhito Takaiwa | Tag team match | 18:02 |
| 4 | Takashi Iizuka defeated Kendo Kashin | Singles match | 06:12 |
| 5 | Kensuke Sasaki defeated Masahiro Chono | Singles match: IWGP Heavyweight Championship tournament semi-final | 11:28 |
| 6 | Toshiaki Kawada defeated Hiroyoshi Tenzan | Singles match: IWGP Heavyweight Championship tournament semi-final | 10:45 |
| 7 | Keiji Mutoh and Shinjiro Otani defeated Jushin Thunder Liger and Manabu Nakanishi | Tag team match | 05:44 |
| 8 | Riki Choshu wrestled Shinya Hashimoto to a no contest | Singles match | 15:20 |
| 9 | Kensuke Sasaki defeated Toshiaki Kawada | Singles match: IWGP Heavyweight Championship tournament final | 10:30 |
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- IWGP Heavyweight Championship tournament bracket
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||
| Satoshi Kojima | Sub | ||||||||||
| Kensuke Sasaki | 16:33 | ||||||||||
| Kensuke Sasaki | Sub | ||||||||||
| Masahiro Chono | 11:28 | ||||||||||
| Kensuke Sasaki | Pin | ||||||||||
| Toshiaki Kawada | 10:30 | ||||||||||
| Yuji Nagata | Pin | ||||||||||
| Hiroyoshi Tenzan | 16:45 | ||||||||||
| Hiroyoshi Tenzan | Pin | ||||||||||
| Toshiaki Kawada | 10:45 | ||||||||||
Wrestling World 2002
Wrestling World 2002 was the title of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that takes place on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome each year. Wrestling World 2002 was the eleventh January 4 Tokyo Dome Show held by NJPW. The show drew 52,000 spectators.[13] The show was the first January 4 Tokyo Dome Show to feature wrestlers from Pro Wrestling Noah, with the main event of the nine match show being a successful defense of the GHC Heavyweight Championship as champion Jun Akiyama defeated NJPW representative Yuji Nagata. The show also featured a successful IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship defense by Kendo Kashin.
- Match results
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Masahito Kakihara and Masayuki Naruse defeated Katsuyori Shibata and Wataru Inoue | Tag team match | 10:50 |
| 2 | El Samurai and Minoru Tanaka defeated Akira and Koji Kanemoto | Tag team match | 12:31 |
| 3 | Kazunari Murakami and Yuki Ishikawa defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kenzo Suzuki | Tag team match | 08:00 |
| 4 | The Great Sasuke, Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask defeated Dick Togo, Gedo and Jado | Six-man tag team match | 20:12 |
| 5 | Manabu Nakanishi defeated Giant Silva via countout | Singles match | 06:49 |
| 6 | Kendo Kashin (c) defeated Daijiro Matsui | Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | 05:43 |
| 7 | Hiroshi Hase and Keiji Mutoh defeated Osamu Nishimura and Tatsumi Fujinami | Tag team match | 16:44 |
| 8 | Naoya Ogawa wrestled Kensuke Sasaki to a no contest | Singles match | 04:02 |
| 9 | Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima) defeated Giant Singh and Masahiro Chono | Tag team match | 10:47 |
| 10 | Jun Akiyama (c) defeated Yuji Nagata | Singles match for the GHC Heavyweight Championship | 19:58 |
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Wrestling World 2003
Wrestling World 2003 was the title of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that takes place on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome each year. Wrestling World 2003 was the twelfth January 4 Tokyo Dome Show held by NJPW. The show drew 30,000 spectators.[14] The show featured the semi-finals and the finals of the "Young Generation Cup", an NJPW tournament for relative newcomers who have yet to establish themselves as top level wrestlers, which saw Ryushi Yanagisawa defeat Yutaka Yoshie to win the cup. The show featured a total of eleven matches, including a match for the vacant NWF Heavyweight Championship that Yoshihiro Takayama won by defeating Tsuyoshi Kosaka. The main event was a successful defense of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship as champion Yuji Nagata defeated Josh Barnett.
- Match results
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Osamu Nishimura defeated Tatsumi Fujinami | Singles match | 08:10 |
| 2 | Yutaka Yoshie defeated Shinya Makabe | Singles match: semifinal of the Young Generation Cup | 13:20 |
| 3 | Ryushi Yanagisawa defeated Kenzo Suzuki | Singles match: semifinal of the Young Generation Cup | 09:23 |
| 4 | Dai Majin and Makai #1 defeated Hiro Saito and Tatsutoshi Goto via disqualification | Tag team match | 07:50 |
| 5 | Makai #4 and Makai #5 defeated Masahito Kakihara and Takashi Iizuka | Tag team match | 10:54 |
| 6 | Jushin Thunder Liger, Koji Kanemoto and Takehiro Murahama defeated Heat, Masayuki Naruse and Tiger Mask | Six-man tag team match | 16:10 |
| 7 | Ryushi Yanagisawa defeated Yutaka Yoshie | Singles match: Finals of the Young Generation Cup | 06:48 |
| 8 | Michiyoshi Ohara and Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Kazunari Murakami and Tadao Yasuda via referee stoppage | Tag team match | 07:12 |
| 9 | Satoshi Kojima and Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeated Masahiro Chono and Manabu Nakanishi | Tag team match | 23:18 |
| 10 | Yoshihiro Takayama defeated Tsuyoshi Kosaka | Singles match for the vacant NWF Heavyweight Championship | 10:19 |
| 11 | Yuji Nagata (c) defeated Josh Barnett | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 10:40 |
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- Young Generation Cup tournament bracket
| Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||
Wrestling World 2004
Wrestling World 2004 was the title of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that takes place on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome each year. Wrestling World 2004 was the thirteenth January 4 Tokyo Dome Show held by NJPW. The show drew 40,000 spectators.[15] Main event of the 15 match show was a unification match between IWGP Heavyweight Champion Shinsuke Nakamura and NWF Heavyweight Champion Yoshihiro Takayama. Nakamura won the match, retiring the NWF Championship after only being active for one year. The undercard saw NJPW mainstay Jushin Thunder Liger defeat Pro Wrestling Noah's Takashi Sugiura to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship, marking the first time a Noah championship changed hands at a January 4 Tokyo Dome Show. Additionally Gedo and Jado successfully defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Heat and Tiger Mask and Hiroshi Tanahashi retained the IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship against Yutaka Yoshie.
- Match results
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hirooki Goto defeated Naofumi Yamamoto | Singles match | 06:21 |
| 2 | Katsushi Takemura defeated El Samurai | Singles match | 06:53 |
| 3 | Makai #1, Mitsuya Nagai, Ryota Chikuzen and Ryushi Yanagisawa defeated Enson Inoue, Hiro Saito, Michiyoshi Ohara and Tatsutoshi Goto | Eight-man tag team match | 11:55 |
| 4 | Shinya Makabe and Toru Yano defeated Blue Wolf and Wataru Inoue | Tag team match | 10:18 |
| 5 | Masayuki Naruse defeated Tadao Yasuda via disqualification (2:09), match restarted: Naruse won via stoppage | Singles match | 02:30 |
| 6 | Ryusuke Taguchi defeated Akiya Anzawa | Singles match | 04:53 |
| 7 | Gedo and Jado (c) defeated Heat and Tiger Mask | Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship | 17:15 |
| 8 | Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Takashi Sugiura (c) | Singles match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship | 17:52 |
| 9 | Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) defeated Yutaka Yoshie | Singles match for the IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship | 17:06 |
| 10 | Josh Barnett and Takashi Iizuka defeated Katsuyori Shibata and Kazunari Murakami | Tag team match | 16:04 |
| 11 | Osamu Nishimura defeated Minoru Suzuki | Singles match | 09:39 |
| 12 | Manabu Nakanishi defeated Genichiro Tenryu | Singles match | 10:20 |
| 13 | Yuji Nagata defeated Kensuke Sasaki via referee stoppage | Singles match | 12:10 |
| 14 | Bob Sapp and Keiji Mutoh defeated Cho-Ten (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Masahiro Chono) | Tag team match | 21:00 |
| 15 | Shinsuke Nakamura (c) defeated Yoshihiro Takayama (c) | Singles match for both the IWGP Heavyweight Championship (Nakamura) and the NWF Heavyweight Championship. The NWF title was unified with the IWGP title. As a result, the NWF title was retired. | 13:55 |
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Toukon Festival: Wrestling World 2005
Toukon Festival: Wrestling World 2005 was the title of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that takes place on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome each year. Toukon Festival: Wrestling World 2005 was the fourteenth January 4 Tokyo Dome Show held by NJPW. The show drew 46,000 spectators.[16] The undercard of the show featured an eight-man "submissions only" tournament which Ron Waterman won when he forced Yuji Nagata to submit in the finals. The show also saw Tiger Mask defeat Heat to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship and in the main event Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship. The show also featured a unique "Dog Fight" match between Masahiro Chono, Riki Choshu and Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Chono defeated Chosu in the first match and as a result had to wrestle Tenzan in the next match.
- Match results
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gedo and Jado vs. Wataru Inoue and Katsushi Takemura ended in a time limit draw | Tag team match | 15:00 |
| 2 | Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Koji Kanemoto | Singles match to determine the number one contender to the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | 10:30 |
| 3 | Tiger Mask defeated Heat (c) | Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | 14:17 |
| 4 | Yuji Nagata defeated Katsuhiko Nagata 15 points to 11 points | Amateur wrestling-style exhibition match | 05:00 |
| 5 | Minoru Suzuki defeated Takashi Iizuka | Singles match | 09:45 |
| 6 | Satoshi Kojima defeated Osamu Nishimura | Singles match | 19:26 |
| 7 | Ron Waterman defeated Masayuki Naruse, Manabu Nakanishi, Toru Yano, Dolgorsürengiin Sumyaabazar, Mitsuya Nagai, Yuji Nagata and Blue Wolf | Eight-man Ultimate Royal match | 22:55 |
| 8 | Ron Waterman defeated Masayuki Naruse via referee stoppage | Singles match: tournament quarter-final match | 02:35 |
| 9 | Manabu Nakanishi defeated Toru Yano | Singles match: tournament quarter-final match | 03:09 |
| 10 | Dolgorsürengiin Sumyaabazar defeated Mitsuya Nagai | Singles match: tournament quarter-final match | 05:46 |
| 11 | Yuji Nagata defeated Blue Wolf | Singles match: tournament quarter-final match | 05:49 |
| 12 | Ron Waterman defeated Manabu Nakanishi | Singles match: tournament semi-final match | 01:02 |
| 13 | Yuji Nagata defeated Dolgorsürengiin Sumyaabazar via referee stoppage | Singles match: tournament semi-final match | 01:53 |
| 14 | Ron Waterman defeated Yuji Nagata | Singles match: tournament final match | 01:41 |
| 15 | Masahiro Chono defeated Riki Choshu and Hiroyoshi Tenzan | "Dog Fight" rules match | |
| 16 | Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) | Singles match for the IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship | 24:45 |
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- Tournament bracket
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||||
| Masayuki Naruse | TKO | ||||||||||||
| Ron Waterman | 02:35 | ||||||||||||
| Ron Waterman | Sub | ||||||||||||
| Manabu Nakanishi | 01:02 | ||||||||||||
| Manabu Nakanishi | Sub | ||||||||||||
| Toru Yano | 03:09 | ||||||||||||
| Ron Waterman | Sub | ||||||||||||
| Yuji Nagata | 01:41 | ||||||||||||
| Mitsuya Nagai | Sub | ||||||||||||
| D. Sumyaabazar | 05:46 | ||||||||||||
| D. Sumyaabazar | TKO | ||||||||||||
| Yuji Nagata | 01:53 | ||||||||||||
| Blue Wolf | Sub | ||||||||||||
| Yuji Nagata | 05:49 | ||||||||||||
Toukon Shidou Chapter 1
Toukon Shidou Chapter 1 was the title of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that takes place on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome each year. Toukon Shidou Chapter 1 was the fifteenth January 4 Tokyo Dome Show held by NJPW. The show drew 31,000 spectators.[17] The main focus of the 11 match show was the IWGP championship defenses in the semi-main event and the main event. In the semi-main event Masahiro Chono and Hiroyoshi Tenzan successfully defended the IWGP Tag Team Championship against Shiro Koshinaka and Takao Omori; while the main event featured Brock Lesnar retaining the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Shinsuke Nakamura. For only the second time in the history of the January 4 Tokyo Dome Shows no title changed hands.
- Match results
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ryouji Sai defeated Naofumi Yamamoto | Singles match | 08:18 |
| 2 | Badboy Hido, Kintaro Kanemura and Masato Tanaka defeated Gedo, Jado and Jushin Thunder Liger | Six-man tag team match | 10:03 |
| 3 | Minoru and Tiger Mask defeated Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Tomohiro Ishii | Tag team match | 12:11 |
| 4 | Daisuke Sekimoto, KAMIKAZE, Kohei Sato, Riki Choshu, Takashi Uwano and Yoshihito Sasaki defeated Hirooki Goto, Hiroshi Nagao, Osamu Nishimura, Takashi Iizuka, Tatsumi Fujinami and Toru Yano | Twelve-man tag team match | 12:16 |
| 5 | Akebono and Yutaka Yoshie defeated Black Strong Machine and Hiro Saito | Tag team match | 09:18 |
| 6 | Yuji Nagata defeated Kazunari Murakami | Singles match | 13:11 |
| 7 | Shinjiro Otani defeated Koji Kanemoto | Singles match | 10:47 |
| 8 | Katsuyori Shibata defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi | Singles match | 11:59 |
| 9 | Giant Bernard defeated Manabu Nakanishi | Singles match | 09:53 |
| 10 | Masahiro Chono and Hiroyoshi Tenzan (c) defeated Shiro Koshinaka and Takao Omori | Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship | 19:28 |
| 11 | Brock Lesnar (c) defeated Shinsuke Nakamura | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 08:58 |
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Wrestle Kingdom in Tokyo Dome
Wrestle Kingdom II in Tokyo Dome
Wrestle Kingdom III in Tokyo Dome
Wrestle Kingdom IV in Tokyo Dome
Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome
Wrestle Kingdom VI in Tokyo Dome
Wrestle Kingdom 7 in Tokyo Dome
Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome
Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome
Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome
Wrestle Kingdom 11 in Tokyo Dome
Wrestle Kingdom 12 in Tokyo Dome
Wrestle Kingdom 13 in Tokyo Dome
Wrestle Kingdom 14 in Tokyo Dome
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Fantastic Story . ProWrestlingHistory.com (1993-01-04). Retrieved on 2010-04-13.
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Battle Seven . ProWrestlingHistory.com (1995-01-04). Retrieved on 2010-04-13.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Wrestling War in Tokyo Dome 1996 . ProWrestlingHistory.com (1996-01-04). Retrieved on 2010-04-13.
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 6.18 6.19 6.20 Butcher, Rob (March 1997). "The Money Factory". Power Slam Magazine. Lancaster, Lancashire, England: SW Publishing LTD. pp. 26–27. 32.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedJan4-97 - ↑ Jericho, Chris. A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex. Grand Central Publishing.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Power Hall in Tokyo Dome . ProWrestlingHistory.com (1998-01-04). Retrieved on 2010-04-13.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Wrestling World 1999 . ProWrestlingHistory.com (1999-01-04). Retrieved on 2010-04-13.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Wrestling World 2000 . ProWrestlingHistory.com (2000-01-04). Retrieved on 2010-04-13.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Wrestling World 2001 . ProWrestlingHistory.com (2001-01-04). Retrieved on 2010-04-13.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Wrestling World 2002 . ProWrestlingHistory.com (2002-01-04). Retrieved on 2010-04-13.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Wrestling World 2003 . ProWrestlingHistory.com (2003-01-04). Retrieved on 2010-04-13.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Wrestling World 2004 . ProWrestlingHistory.com (2004-01-04). Retrieved on 2010-04-13.
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