| Starrcade 1992 in Tokyo Dome | ||||
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| Information | ||||
| Promotion | World Championship Wrestling New Japan Pro Wrestling |
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| Date | 01992-01-04January 4, 1992 | |||
| Attendance | 50,000 | |||
| Venue | Tokyo Dome | |||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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The first ever January 4 Dome show held by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) was called Starrcade 1992 in Tokyo Dome and would start the tradition of NJPW holding their biggest show of the year on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome, making it their Super Bowl or WrestleMania event. It was promoted in conjunction with the American based World Championship Wrestling (WCW) with the name "Starrcade" taken from WCW's December pay-per-view (PPV) event of the same name. The show featured a mixture of NJPW and WCW wrestlers facing each other, with most of the matches that included WCW wrestlers being shown in North America as a PPV under the name WCW/New Japan Supershow II. The show drew 50,000 spectators for a gate of the equivalent of $3,700,000 at the exchange rate at the time. 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 main event saw Riki Chōshū 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.
- Match results
| # | Result | Stipulation | Time |
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| 00 !Dark match | Black Cat defeated Hiroyoshi Yamamoto | Singles match | 10:28 |
| 00.5 !Dark match | Osamu Kido and Kuniaki Kobayashi defeated Kantaro Hoshino and Kengo Kimura – Kido pinned Hoshino | Tag team match | 11:54 |
| 01 !1 | Akira Nogami, Masashi Aoyagi and Jushin Liger defeated Norio Honaga, Hiro Saito and Super Strong Machine – Nogami pinned Saito | Six–man tag team match | 15:12 |
| 02 !2 | Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko defeated Shiro Koshinaka and Michiyoshi Ohara – Anderson pinned Ohara | Tag team match | 12:32 |
| 03 !3 | Dustin and Dusty Rhodes defeated Kim Duk and Masa Saito – Dustin Rhodes pinned Kim Duk | Tag team match | 14:23 |
| 04 !4 | Tony Halme defeated Scott Norton | Singles match | 08:41 |
| 05 !5 | Shinya Hashimoto defeated Bill Kazmaier | Singles match | 08:37 |
| 06 !6 | Big Van Vader vs. El Gigante ended in a double disqualification | Singles match | 04:49 |
| 07 !7 | Antonio Inoki defeated Hiroshi Hase | Singles match | 10:09 |
| 08 !8 | The Great Muta and Sting defeated The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) – Sting pinned Scott Steiner | Tag team match | 11:03 |
| 09 !9 | Lex Luger (c) defeated Masahiro Chono | Singles match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | 15:09 |
| 10 !10 | Riki Chōshū (c) defeated Tatsumi Fujinami (c) | Singles match for both the Greatest 18 Championship (Chosu) and the IWGP Heavyweight Championship (Fujinami) | 12:11 |
| (c) Refers to the champion going into the match | |||
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