| Battlefield | ||||
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| Information | ||||
| Promotion | New Japan Pro Wrestling | |||
| Date | 01994-01-04January 4, 1994 | |||
| Attendance | 48,000 | |||
| Venue | Tokyo Dome | |||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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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 III was unmasked and revealed as Koji Kanemoto. It would be several years before a new Tiger Mask, Tiger Mask IV began using the ring persona and not until after the turn of the millennia that the Tiger Mask character would appear in NJPW.
- Match results
| # | Result | Stipulation | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 !1 | The Great Kabuki, Kengo Kimura, Kuniaki Kobayashi, Shiro Koshinaka and Michiyoshi Ohara defeated Osamu Kido, Satoshi Kojima, Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi and El Samurai – Ohara pinned Nagata | Ten–man tag team match | 12:09 |
| 02 !2 | Takayuki Iizuka and Akira Nogami defeated Masashi Aoyagi and Akitoshi Saito – Nogami pinned Saito | Tag team match | 14:07 |
| 03 !3 | Brutus Beefcake defeated Black Cat | Singles match | 08:06 |
| 04 !4 | Super Strong Machine defeated Tatsutoshi Goto | Singles match | 08:51 |
| 05 !5 | Jushin Liger defeated Tiger Mask III | Mask vs. Mask match | 14:26 |
| 06 !6 | The Hell Raisers (Hawk and Power Warrior) defeated The Jurassic Powers (Hercules Hernandez and Scott Norton) (c) – Power pinned Hercules | Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship | 12:47 |
| 07 !7 | The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) defeated Hiroshi Hase and Keiji Mutoh – Rick pinned Hase | Tag team match | 20:51 |
| 08 !8 | Hulk Hogan defeated Tatsumi Fujinami | Singles match | 13:33 |
| 09 !9 | Riki Chōshū defeated Yoshiaki Fujiwara | Singles match | 09:04 |
| 10 !10 | Shinya Hashimoto (c) defeated Masahiro Chono | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 28:00 |
| 11 !11 | Genichiro Tenryu defeated Antonio Inoki | Singles match | 15:56 |
| (c) Refers to the champion going into the match | |||
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“Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it’s be brave or else be killed.”
—Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949)