Wrestle Kingdom VI in Tokyo Dome | ||||
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Information | ||||
Promotion | New Japan Pro Wrestling | |||
Date | 02012-01-04January 4, 2012 | |||
Attendance | 43,000 | |||
Venue | Tokyo Dome | |||
City | Tokyo, Japan | |||
Pay-per-view chronology | ||||
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Wrestle Kingdom VI in Tokyo Dome was announced on September 12, 2011, as taking place on January 4, 2012, in Tokyo Dome, celebrating the 40th anniversary of New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). Wrestle Kingdom VI in Tokyo Dome was the twenty-first January 4 Dome Show held by NJPW. The event featured outside participants from the All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and Pro Wrestling Noah promotions. For the first time in five years, the event did not feature wrestlers from Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The card featured eleven matches, including three title matches.
- Match results
# | Result | Stipulation | Time |
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00 !Dark match | Captain New Japan and Tama Tonga defeated Kyosuke Mikami and Tomoaki Honma – Tonga pinned Mikami | Tag team match | 08:47 |
01 !1 | Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) defeated No Remorse Corps (Davey Richards and Rocky Romero) (c) – Taguchi pinned Richards | Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship | 12:44 |
02 !2 | Jushin Liger, KUSHIDA, Máscara Dorada and Tiger Mask IV defeated Atlantis, Taichi, Taka Michinoku and Valiente – Liger pinned Valiente | Eight man tag team match | 10:18 |
03 !3 | Kazuchika Okada defeated YOSHI-HASHI | Singles match | 04:37 |
04 !4 | Masakatsu Funaki and Masayuki Kono defeated Blue Justice Army (Yuji Nagata and Wataru Inoue) – Funaki pinned Inoue | Tag team match | 06:34 |
05 !5 | MVP and Shelton Benjamin defeated Complete Players (Masato Tanaka and Yujiro Takahashi) – MVP submitted Takahashi | Tag team match | 09:41 |
06 !6 | Ten-Koji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima) defeated Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) (c) – Tenzan pinned Bernard | Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship | 12:40 |
07 !7 | Hirooki Goto defeated Takashi Sugiura | Singles match | 12:35 |
08 !8 | Togi Makabe defeated Yoshihiro Takayama | Singles match | 09:15 |
09 !9 | Go Shiozaki and Naomichi Marufuji defeated CHAOS Top Team (Shinsuke Nakamura and Toru Yano) – Shiozaki pinned Yano | Tag team match | 15:10 |
10 !10 | Keiji Mutoh defeated Tetsuya Naitō | Singles match | 22:35 |
11 !11 | Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) defeated Minoru Suzuki | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 25:59 |
(c) Refers to the champion going into the match |
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