January 4 Tokyo Dome Show


The January 4 Tokyo Dome Show is a professional wrestling event produced annually on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome by New Japan Pro-Wrestling, a Japan-based professional wrestling promotion. NJPW promoted events in the Tokyo Dome on January 4 between Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome in 1992 and Wrestle Kingdom 14 in 2020. The January 4 Tokyo Dome Show became NJPW's premier annual event and the biggest event in Japanese wrestling, similar to what WrestleMania is for WWE and American professional wrestling. The show has since expanded to two nights, with the 2020 edition being the only one to include matches on January 5.
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. All the Dome shows have featured championship matches, including several titles not owned by NJPW. On three occasions, no titles changed hands during the show. The 2019 show, which featured eight title matches, was the first in which all contested titles changed hands. Some of the earlier January 4 show attendance numbers have been disputed. Officially, the 1993 Tokyo Dome show set the attendance record with 63,500 fans packing the Tokyo Dome, while according to Dave Meltzer, the 1998 show holds the record with an attendance of 55,000. Unofficially, the 2007 and 2011 Dome shows drew the lowest gates with only 18,000 in attendance. As of 2020, the January 4 shows have hosted 316 matches, 120 of which were title matches leading to 65 title changes in total. The had a 16-match card, the largest of any single-night show, while 2001, 2002, 2007, 2013, 2016, 2018 and 2019 featured 9 matches, the lowest number of matches on a single-night show. The only two-night show in 2020 featured a total of 16 matches, tying the 2005 show for the most in a single event, but each night featured only 8 matches, fewer than any previous Dome Show card.

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