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Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome (known as WCW/New Japan Supershow II in North America) took place on January 4, 1992, from the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.[2] The show was the first NJPW January 4 Dome Show, something that would become an annual tradition in NJPW and would become their biggest show of the year. The show was also the second under the name WCW/New Japan Supershow. The show was broadcast on pay-per-view (PPV) months later in the United States. The US PPV broadcast did not include several of the matches of the 12-match show, with only six being broadcast in the U.S. out of a total of twelve matches.

The show featured a mixture of NJPW and WCW wrestlers facing each other. 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 Japanese main event saw Riki Choshu defeated Tatsumi Fujinami. The match unified the Greatest 18 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. The WCW main event of the show was a tag team match between The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) and the team of the top face of NJPW and WCW as The Great Muta teamed up with Sting. The show also featured WCW World Heavyweight Champion Lex Luger successfully defending the championship against NJPW representative Masahiro Chono.

The WCW/NJPW Supershows were part of a small group of WCW-produced PPVs that were not included in the "on demand" features when the WWE Network was launched in 2014.[3]

Storylines[]

The event featured twelve professional wrestling matches and two pre-show 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.[4]

Results[]

# Results[5] Stipulations Times
1D Black Cat defeated Hiroyoshi Yamamoto Singles match 10:28
2D Osamu Kido and Kuniaki Kobayashi defeated Kengo Kimura and Kantaro Hoshino Tag team match 11:54
3 Jushin Thunder Liger, Masashi Aoyagi and Akira Nogami defeated Hiro Saito, Super Strong Machine and Norio Honaga Six-man tag team match 15:12
4 The Enforcers (Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko) defeated Michiyoshi Ohara and Shiro Koshinaka Tag team match 12:32
5 Dusty Rhodes and Dustin Rhodes defeated Masa Saito and Kim Duk Tag team match 14:23
6D Tony Halme defeated Scott Norton Singles match 08:41
7D 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
9D Antonio Inoki defeated Hiroshi Hase Singles match 10:09
10 Lex Luger (c) defeated Masahiro Chono Singles match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship 15:09
11D Riki Choshu (G18) defeated Tatsumi Fujinami (IWGP) Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the The Greatest 18 Club Championship 12:11
12 Sting and The Great Muta defeated The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) Tag team match 11:03
  • (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
  • – refers to the video of that match
  • D – indicates the match was a dark match

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome . ProWrestlingHistory.com (1992-01-04). Retrieved on 2010-04-13.
  2. WCW/New Japan Pay Per Views WCW/New Japan Supershow II . Prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-06.
  3. 16 PPVs now on the WWE Network . Retrieved on 2015-05-30.
  4. Grabianowski, Ed. How Pro Wrestling Works . HowStuffWorks, Inc.. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on 2013-11-18. Retrieved on 2014-01-05.
  5. Cawthon, Graham (2014). the History of Professional Wrestling Vol 4: World Championship Wrestling 1989-1994. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 1499656343. 
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