WCW/New Japan Supershow III | |||
---|---|---|---|
![]() | |||
Promotion |
World Championship Wrestling New Japan Pro-Wrestling | ||
Date | January 4, 1993
[1] Aired March 1993 | ||
City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
Venue | Tokyo Dome | ||
Attendance | 63,500
[1] (official) 53,500 [2] (claimed) | ||
Pay-per-view chronology | |||
| |||
NJPW January 4 Dome Show chronology | |||
| |||
WCW/New Japan Supershow chronology | |||
|
WCW/New Japan Supershow III (known as Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome in Japan) took place on January 4, 1993, in the
Tokyo Dome in
Tokyo, Japan.
[3] The show would be the third and final show available on
pay-per-view (PPV) in America under the name
WCW/New Japan Supershow. In Japan it was promoted under the name "Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome" and was the second annual NJPW
January 4 Dome Show, NJPW's premier event of the year.
The US PPV broadcast originally advertised that they would show the eighth match of the show, an IWGP Tag Team Championship match with champions The Hell Raisers ( Hawk Warrior and Power Warrior) defending the championship against WCW representatives The Steiner Brothers ( Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner), but by the time the PPV was shown in the US the Steiner Brothers had informed WCW that they were leaving the company and thus the match was pulled from the show. Instead WCW chose to air the match with WAR's Koki Kitahara, Masao Orihara, and Nobukazu Hirai vs. NJPW's Akira Nogami, Takayuki Iizuka, and El Samurai.
The WCW/NJPW Supershows were a part of a small number of WCW-produced PPVs that were not included in the "on demand" features when the WWE Network was launched in 2014. [4]
The event featured ten professional wrestling matches and two pre-show matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. [5]
Role: | Name: |
---|---|
Commentator | Tony Schiavone |
Jim Ross |
WCW/New Japan Supershow III | |||
---|---|---|---|
![]() | |||
Promotion |
World Championship Wrestling New Japan Pro-Wrestling | ||
Date | January 4, 1993
[1] Aired March 1993 | ||
City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
Venue | Tokyo Dome | ||
Attendance | 63,500
[1] (official) 53,500 [2] (claimed) | ||
Pay-per-view chronology | |||
| |||
NJPW January 4 Dome Show chronology | |||
| |||
WCW/New Japan Supershow chronology | |||
|
WCW/New Japan Supershow III (known as Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome in Japan) took place on January 4, 1993, in the
Tokyo Dome in
Tokyo, Japan.
[3] The show would be the third and final show available on
pay-per-view (PPV) in America under the name
WCW/New Japan Supershow. In Japan it was promoted under the name "Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome" and was the second annual NJPW
January 4 Dome Show, NJPW's premier event of the year.
The US PPV broadcast originally advertised that they would show the eighth match of the show, an IWGP Tag Team Championship match with champions The Hell Raisers ( Hawk Warrior and Power Warrior) defending the championship against WCW representatives The Steiner Brothers ( Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner), but by the time the PPV was shown in the US the Steiner Brothers had informed WCW that they were leaving the company and thus the match was pulled from the show. Instead WCW chose to air the match with WAR's Koki Kitahara, Masao Orihara, and Nobukazu Hirai vs. NJPW's Akira Nogami, Takayuki Iizuka, and El Samurai.
The WCW/NJPW Supershows were a part of a small number of WCW-produced PPVs that were not included in the "on demand" features when the WWE Network was launched in 2014. [4]
The event featured ten professional wrestling matches and two pre-show matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. [5]
Role: | Name: |
---|---|
Commentator | Tony Schiavone |
Jim Ross |
No. | Results [6] | Stipulations | Times | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1D | Shiro Koshinaka, The Great Kabuki, Masashi Aoyagi and Akitoshi Saito defeated Super Strong Machine, Hiro Saito, Tatsutoshi Goto and Norio Honaga | Eight-man tag team match | 14:20 | ||||
2 | Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Último Dragón (c) | Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | 20:09 | ||||
3 | Ron Simmons defeated Tony Halme | Singles match | 06:10 | ||||
4 | Masa Saito and Shinya Hashimoto defeated Scott Norton and Dustin Rhodes | Tag team match | 13:57 | ||||
5 | The Great Muta (IWGP) defeated Masahiro Chono (NWA) | Singles match for the IWGP and the NWA World Heavyweight Championships | 19:48 | ||||
6 | Takayuki Iizuka, Akira Nogami and El Samurai defeated Nobukazu Hirai, Masao Orihara and Koki Kitahara | Six-man tag team match | 15:11 | ||||
7 | Sting defeated Hiroshi Hase | Singles match | 15:31 | ||||
8D | The Hell Raisers ( Hawk Warrior and Power Warrior) (c) vs. The Steiner Brothers ( Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) ended in a double countout | Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship | 14:38 | ||||
9D | Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Takashi Ishikawa | Singles match | 11:41 | ||||
10D | Genichiro Tenryu defeated Riki Choshu | Singles match | 18:14 | ||||
|