WCW/New Japan Supershow II

WCW/New Japan Supershow II (known as Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome in Japan) 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 America. The US PPV broadcast did not include several of the matches of the 12-match show, with only six being broadcast in America out of a total of twelve matches.

WCW/New Japan Supershow II
Promotion	World Championship Wrestling New Japan Pro Wrestling
Date	January 4, 1992[1] Aired March 1992
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Tokyo Dome
Attendance	50,000[1]
Pay-per-view chronology
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NJPW January 4 Dome Show chronology
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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]

Other on-screen personnel

Role:	Name:
Commentators	Jim Ross
	Tony Schiavone
Host	Eric Bischoff

Results

No.	Results[5]	Stipulations	Times[1]
1^D	Black Cat defeated Hiroyoshi Yamamoto	Singles match	10:28
2^D	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
6^D	Tony Halme defeated Scott Norton	Singles match	08:41
7^D	Shinya Hashimoto defeated Bill Kazmaier	Singles match	08:37
8	Big Van Vader wrestled El Gigante to a double disqualification	Singles match	04:49
9^D	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
11^D	Riki Choshu (G18) defeated Tatsumi Fujinami (IWGP)	Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the Greatest 18 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 D – indicates the match was a dark match

See also

• 1992 in professional wrestling

References

1. "Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome". ProWrestlingHistory.com. January 4, 1992. Retrieved April 13, 2010.
2. "WCW/New Japan Pay Per Views WCW/New Japan Supershow II". Prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved October 6, 2007.
3. "16 PPVs now on the WWE Network". Archived from the original on July 23, 2014. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
4. Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on 2013-11-18. Retrieved 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.