The Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival (KOBEプロレスフェスティバル,Kōbe Puroresu Fesutibaru) or often referred as Kobe World is a major professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and a Gaora TV event, held by the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Dragon Gate and it is an annual pay-per-view event. It occurs every July at World Memorial Hall in Kobe, Japan. The Kobe World Pro Wrestling Festival is the successor of the Toryumon Japan Aniversario shows. The event celebrates the anniversary of the company after it was formed during the last Vo Aniversario. It is the biggest, and arguably the most important, event of the year, equivalent to the WWE's WrestleMania and the NJPW's January 4 Dome Show and it is regarded as Dragon Gate's flagship event usually held in July. The attendance has grown over the years, surpassing the limit of attendance of the Word Memorial Hall that can occupy that are 8,000 fans, while also putting additional seats each show. The 2017 show had the highest attendance with 9,800 fans packing the World Memorial Hall, surpassing previously set record numbers of the shows, while 2018 had the lowest attendance with 4,952 fans. Since 2018, all events became available in their streaming service Dragon Gate Network.
Dragon Gate often invites other promotions, Japanese and international, to participate in their Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival shows such as Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, New Japan Pro Wrestling, Kaientai Dojo, Pro Wrestling Zero1. The shows have regularly featured wrestlers from all over Japan including Abdullah the Butcher, Masakatsu Funaki, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Masato Tanaka, Tatsumi Fujinami and Hiro Saito. In 2019, Dragon Gate celebrated its 20th anniversary with many wrestlers who worked for Dragon Gate, returned to the company such as Takuya Sugawara, Shuji Kondo and most notably the founder of Toryumon Japan (which later became Dragon Gate), Último Dragón. In 2019, PAC became the first gaijin to take part in the main event of the Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival event. The following year, it was announced that the Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival in 2021 would be held in two nights on July 31 and August 1, for the first time in the event's history.
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