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Wrestle Kingdom IV in Tokyo Dome

Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome
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Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date January 4, 1992
Attendance 50,000
Venue Tokyo Dome
City Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
First Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome
Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome
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Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date January 4, 1993
Attendance 63,500
Venue Tokyo Dome
City Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome Battlefield
Battlefield
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Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date January 4, 1994
Attendance 48,000
Venue Tokyo Dome
City Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome Battlefield Battle 7
Battle 7
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Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date January 4, 1995
Attendance 52,500
Venue Tokyo Dome
City Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
Battlefield Battle 7 Pyongyang International Sports and Culture Festival for Peace
January 4 Tokyo Dome Show chronology
Battlefield Battle 7 Wrestling World 1996
Wrestling World 1996
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Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date January 4, 1996
Attendance 54,000
Venue Tokyo Dome
City Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
Battle 7 Wrestling World 1996 Wrestling World 1997
Wrestling World 1997
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Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date January 4, 1997
Attendance 62,500
Venue Tokyo Dome
City Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
Wrestling World 1996 Wrestling World 1997 Final Power Hall in Tokyo Dome
Final Power Hall in Tokyo Dome
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Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date January 4, 1998
Attendance 55,000
Venue Tokyo Dome
City Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
Wrestling World 1997 Final Power Hall in Tokyo Dome Wrestling World 1999
Wrestling World 1999
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Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date January 4, 1999
Attendance 52,500
Venue Tokyo Dome
City Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
Final Power Hall in Tokyo Dome Wrestling World 1999 Wrestling World 2000
Wrestling World 2000
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Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date January 4, 2000
Attendance 53,500
Venue Tokyo Dome
City Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
Wrestling World 1999 Wrestling World 2000 Wrestling World 2001
Wrestling World 2001
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Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date January 4, 2001
Attendance 52,000
Venue Tokyo Dome
City Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
Wrestling World 2000 Wrestling World 2001 Wrestling World 2002

The January 4 Tokyo Dome Show is a major professional wrestling show, held by Japanese professional wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), held annually on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome. It has become an annual event that starts the new year in NJPW since its inception in 1992. NJPW have held shows at the Tokyo Dome as far back as April 24, 1989, but their January 4 show has become the most anticipated show on NJPW calendar. It is Japan's biggest wrestling event and NJPW's premier show, similar to what the WrestleMania is for the WWE.

NJPW often invites other promotions, Japanese and international, to participate in their January 4 Tokyo Dome Shows as well, including several companies that have been involved in scripted inter-promotional rivalries such as All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW), Pro Wrestling Zero1, Pro Wrestling Noah, and UWF International (UWFi) as well as representatives from the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion. The shows have regularly featured wrestlers from American promotions such as Ring of Honor (ROH), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, currently known as Global Force Wrestling), and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and have on these occasions been shown either partially or in full in the American market.

The first two January 4 Tokyo Dome Shows were also the last two WCW/New Japan Supershows. Since 2007, when the event was renamed "Wrestle Kingdom in Tokyo Dome", the Dome shows have been broadcast on pay-per-view (PPV). As of 2017 all the Dome shows have featured championship matches, including several titles not owned by NJPW. On three occasions (1998, 2006 and 2013), no titles changed hands during the show. The 1993 Tokyo Dome show set the attendance record with 63,500 fans packing the Tokyo Dome, while the 2007 Dome show drew the lowest gates with only 18,000 in attendance. As of 2017, the January 4 shows have hosted 282 matches (not including dark or pre-show matches), 94 of which were title matches leading to 44 title changes in total. The 2005 Tokyo Dome show had a 16-match card, the largest of any of the shows, while 2001, 2002, 2007, 2013, and 2016 featured 9 matches, the lowest number of matches on a show.


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