Strong Style Evolution
May 3, 1997 in Osaka, Japan
Osaka Dome drawing 43,000 ($4,000,000)
- Koji Kanemoto, Shinjiro Ohtani, Dick Togo, Mens Teoh, & Hanzo Nakajima beat Super Delfin, Gran Hamada, The Great Sasuke, El Samurai, & Norio Honoga (19:11) in two straight falls.
- Ohtani pinned Delfin (9:00).
- Togo pinned Hamada (19:11).
- Kazuo Yamazaki beat Kendo Kashin (8:06) via sleeperhold.
- Shiro Koshinaka pinned Kengo Kimura (13:34).
- Tatsumi Fujinami pinned Hiroyoshi Tenzan (9:03).
- NWO Sting & Syxx beat Tadao Yasuda & Takashi Iizuka (12:23) when Syxx pinned Iizuka.
- Buff Bagwell & Scott Norton beat Lex Luger & The Giant (10:09) when Norton pinned Luger.
- Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, & Masa Chono beat Keiji Mutoh, Rick & Scott Steiner (14:31) when Hall pinned Rick.
- Antonio Inoki & Tiger King beat Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Jushin Liger (10:42) when Inoki forced Fujiwara to submit.
- Satoshi Kojima & Manabu Nakanishi beat Riki Choshu & Kensuke Sasaki (17:34) to win the IWGP Tag Title when Kojima forced Choshu to submit.
- IWGP Champ Shinya Hashimoto beat Naoya Ogawa (10:20) via submission.
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The Four Heaven
August 10, 1997 in Nagoya, Japan
Nagoya Dome drawing 43,500 ($3,500,000)
- Kazuyuki Fujita beat Kendo Kashin (5:00) via submission.
- Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Tadao Yasuda, Takashi Iizuka, Osamu Kido, & Junji Hirata beat Akitoshi Saito, Michiyoshi Ohara, Akira Nogami, Tatsutoshi Goto, & Kengo Kimura (14:09) when Yasuda pinned Ohara.
- Koji Kanemoto pinned Jushin Liger (21:51).
- Shinjiro Ohtani pinned El Samurai (18:05) to win the J Crown.
- Don Frye beat Cal Worsham (7:57) via submission.
- Tatsumi Fujinami pinned Riki Choshu (6:48).
- Kazuo Yamazaki & Kensuke Sasaki beat Manabu Nakanishi & Satoshi Kojima (12:31) to win the IWGP Tag Title when Sasaki pinned Nakanishi.
- The Great Muta TKO Naoya Ogawa (6:39).
- IWGP Champ Shinya Hashimoto pinned Hiroyoshi Tenzan (17:09).
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Rising the Next Generation
August 8, 1998 in Osaka, Japan
Osaka Dome drawing 35,000 ($2,500,000)
- Kendo Kashin beat El Samurai (10:13) via submission.
- Osamu Nishimura & Kazuo Yamazaki beat Tadao Yasuda & Takashi Iizuka (11:00) when Yamazaki forced Yasuda to submit.
- Shiro Koshinaka pinned Hiroyoshi Tenzan (8:24).
- Satoshi Kojima & Manabu Nakanishi beat Yuji Nagata & Kazuyuki Fujita (12:02) when Koshinaka pinned Fujita.
- The Great Kabuki & The Great Muta beat Tatsutoshi Goto & Michiyoshi Ohara (10:33) when Kabuki pinned Goto.
- The Great Sasuke pinned Jushin Liger (15:11).
- Kensuke Sasaki beat Don Frye (9:06) via DQ.
- Shinjiro Ohtani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa beat Koji Kanemoto & Dr. Wagner, Jr. (20:13) to win the first IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Title when Ohtani pinned Kanemoto.
- J-1 Japanese Champ Genichiro Tenryu pinned Shinya Hashimoto (14:12).
- Masa Chono beat Tatsumi Fujinami (19:53) via submission to win the IWGP Title.
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Strong Style 2001
April 9, 2001 in Osaka, Japan
Osaka Dome drawing 18,500
Shown live on TV Asahi (10.7)
- Takashi Iizuka beat Minoru Tanaka (9:37) via submission.
- Yutaka Yoshie beat Shinya Makabe (8:59) via submission.
- Brian Johnston beat Kendo Kashin (2:20) via submission.
- Jushin Liger beat Kazunari Murakami (1:47) via DQ.
- Riki Choshu & Shiro Koshinaka beat Toshiaki Kawada & Masa Fuchi (8:53) when Choshu pinned Fuchi.
- Yuji Nagata pinned Manabu Nakanishi (9:29).
- Masa Chono, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, & Satoshi Kojima beat Keiji Mutoh, Taiyo Kea, & Jinsei Shinzaki (14:57) when Chono pinned Shinzaki.
- Kazuyuki Fujita KO Scott Norton (6:43) to win the IWGP Title.
- Shinya Hashimoto TKO Kensuke Sasaki (7:52) in a "no rules" match.
Note: First three matches shown live on SkyPerfect TV.
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Dome Quake
July 20, 2001 in Sapporo, Japan
Sapporo Dome drawing 28,000
Shown live on TV-Asahi (6.2)
- Hiro Saito, Akira Nogami, & Tatsutoshi Goto beat Yutaka Yoshie, Osamu Nishimura, & Shiro Koshinaka (13:52) when Saito pinned Yoshie.
- Tadao Yasuda beat Michiyoshi Ohara (6:14) via submission.
- Osamu Kido, Riki Choshu, & Tatsumi Fujinami beat Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kenzo Suzuki, & Shinya Makabe (10:43) when Kido forced Tanahashi to submit.
- Gedo & Jado beat El Samurai & Jushin Liger (19:06) to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Title when Jado forced Samurai to submit.
- Masayuki Naruse pinned Minoru Tanaka (11:27) to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title.
- Gary Goodridge TKO Manabu Nakanishi (6:06).
- Mark Coleman beat Yuji Nagata (7:59) via submission.
- IWGP Tag Champs Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima beat Jinsei Shinzaki & Taiyo Kea (16:28) when Tenzan pinned Shinzaki.
- Masa Chono beat Keiji Mutoh (16:09) via submission.
- IWGP Champ Kazuyuki Fujita beat Don Frye (17:22) via submission.
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Toukon Festival
November 13, 2004 in Osaka, Japan
Osaka Dome drawing 15,000
Shown live on Japanese PPV
- Katsuhiko Nakajima pinned Hirooki Goto (7:03).
- Ryusuke Taguchi beat Hiroshi Nagao (6:21) via submission.
- Ryusuke Taguchi beat Katsuhiko Nakajima (9:41) via submission to win the 2004 Young Lions Tournament.
- Blue Wolf & Masahito Kakihara beat Yutaka Yoshie & El Samurai (14:45) when Kakihara pinned Samurai.
- Mitsuya Nagai & Masayuki Naruse beat Togi Makabe & Toru Yano (16:50) when Naruse pinned Yano.
- Tiger Mask IV, Wataru Inoue, & Taiji Ishimori beat Jushin Liger, Jado, & Gedo (22:36) when Inoue beat Liger to submit.
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champ Heat beat Koji Kanemoto (23:18) via submission.
- Genichiro Tenryu pinned Katsuyori Shibata (9:09).
- Yuji Nagata & Osamu Nishimura beat Masahiro Chono & Riki Choshu (10:37) in an "elimination" match. Nagata was the sole survivor.
- Choshu KO Nishimura (4:08).
- Nagata pinned Choshu (9:27).
- Nagata pinned Chono (10:37).
- IWGP Champ Kensuke Sasaki pinned Minoru Suzuki (19:59).
- Toshiaki Kawada & Naoya Ogawa beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Hiroshi Tanahashi (17:18) when Kawada pinned Tanahashi.
- Kazuyuki Fujita & Kendo Kashin beat Manabu Nakanishi & Shinsuke Nakamura (18:54) when Fujita pinned Nakamura.
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