| Wrestle Kingdom II in Tokyo Dome | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Information | ||||
| Promotion | New Japan Pro Wrestling | |||
| Date | 02008-01-04January 4, 2008 | |||
| Attendance | 20,000 | |||
| Venue | Tokyo Dome | |||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | |||
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||||
|
||||
Wrestle Kingdom II in Tokyo Dome was the title of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that takes place on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome each year. Wrestle Kingdom II in Tokyo Dome was the seventeenth January 4 Dome Show held by NJPW. The show drew 20,000 spectators. The 2008 show was the first year that NJPW used wrestlers from the Orlando, Florida based Total Nonstop Action Wrestling competing against wrestlers from NJPW. The matches involving the TNA wrestlers was shown as a special broadcast in the United States under the title Global Impact! and was later released on a DVD with other TNA/NJPW matches. TNA wrestlers featured in six of the ten matches, including Kurt Angle's successful defense of the IGF's version of the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship (known as the IWGP Third Belt Championship in NJPW) against Yuji Nagata. The show also featured All Japan Pro Wrestling president Keiji Mutoh reprising his role as "The Great Muta", a character that first became popular when he worked for NJPW.
- Match results
| # | Result | Stipulation | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 !1 | Christian Cage, A.J. Styles and Petey Williams defeated Milano Collection A.T., Minoru and Prince Devitt – Styles pinned Milano | Six–man tag team match | 10:25 |
| 02 !2 | Wataru Inoue (c) defeated Christopher Daniels | Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | 10:17 |
| 03 !3 | Manabu Nakanishi defeated Abyss | Singles match | 06:00 |
| 04 !4 | Masato Tanaka, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Yutaka Yoshie and Katsushi Takemura defeated Takashi Iizuka, Koji Kanemoto, Tiger Mask IV and Ryusuke Taguchi – Yoshie pinned Taguchi | Eight–man tag team match | 08:36 |
| 05 !5 | Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) defeated R&R (Togi Makabe and Toru Yano) – Devon pinned Makabe | Hardcore match | 13:12 |
| 06 !6 | Tatsumi Fujinami, Riki Chōshū, Masahiro Chono, Jushin Liger and AKIRA defeated Jado, Gedo, TARU, Shuji Kondo and "brother" YASSHI – Choshu pinned YASSHI | Ten–man tag team match | 07:18 |
| 07 !7 | The Great Muta defeated Hirooki Goto | Singles match | 13:04 |
| 08 !8 | Giant Bernard and Travis Tomko (c) defeated The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) – Bernard pinned Rick | Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship | 12:50 |
| 09 !9 | Kurt Angle (c) defeated Yuji Nagata | Singles match for the IWGP Third Belt Championship | 18:29 |
| 10 !10 | Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 23:08 |
| (c) Refers to the champion going into the match | |||
Read more about this topic: January 4 Dome Show
Famous quotes containing the words wrestle, kingdom, tokyo and/or dome:
“Two months dead, I wrestle with your name
Whose separate letters make a paltry sum
That is not you.”
—Howard Moss (b. 1922)
“The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,—more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald’s food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and “retro” clothes in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter for TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.”
—Jean François Lyotard (b. 1924)
“Thus to him, to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and it proceed from one root; one is leaf and one is flower; relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein. And what is that root? Is not that the soul of his soul?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)