WCW/New Japan Supershow

WCW/New Japan Supershow was an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) jointly promoted by the Atlanta, Georgia based World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the Japanese New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) wrestling promotions. It was held in 1991, 1992 and 1993, and was promoted as "Starrcade" in Japan, but not billed as such in the United States due to WCW already having a show called "Starrcade" held each year in December. The show would be taped in Japan and then edited and aired in North America at a later date in WCW. The last two of this three events were also the two first January 4 Dome Show.

I

WCW/New Japan Supershow I
Promotion	World Championship Wrestling New Japan Pro Wrestling
Date	March 21, 1991 Aired April 1991
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Tokyo Dome
Attendance	64,500
Pay-per-view chronology
← Previous WrestleWar (1991) Next → SuperBrawl I

WCW/New Japan Supershow I, was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event that took place March 21, 1991 from the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, co-promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), who hosted the event and the US-Based World Championship Wrestling (WCW) that supplied a number of the wrestlers on the show. The event was viewed by 64,500 people in Japan and later shown in the United States as a PPV in April, 1991. In Japan the event was referred to as Starrcade in Tokyo Dome Several of the matches on the show were not included in the PPV broadcast, held for the benefit of the crowd in attendance only. The WCW/NJPW Supershows were part of a small group of WCW produced PPVs not included in the "on demand" features when the WWE Network was launched in 2014.

The main event match between Ric Flair and Tatsumi Fujinami was presented very differently in the United States and in Japan. During the show it was announced that Ric Flair's NWA World Heavyweight Championship was on the line, but not the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, in the US those were considered the same championship and represented by one belt. The PPV announcers stated that Fujinami's IWGP Heavyweight Championship was also on the line in the match even though no such mention was made during the introductions. The outcome of the match was also presented differently, to the Japanese crowd Fujinami defeated Flair by pinfall and thus won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. The title change was ignored in the US, claiming that Fujinami had been disqualified for throwing Ric Flair over the top rope and thus did not win the match. A later rematch between the two at SuperBrawl I saw Flair regain the NWA title, but in all promotional material produced by WCW it was billed as a successful title defense against Fujinami.

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times
1	Animal Hamaguchi, Kengo Kimura, Osamu Kido and Kantaro Hoshino defeated Super Strong Machine, Hiro Saito, Tatsutoshi Goto and Norio Honaga	Eight-man tag team match	10:12
2	Shiro Koshinaka, Kuniaki Kobayashi and Takayuki Iizuka defeated Tim Horner, Brian Pillman and Tom Zenk	Six-man tag team match	12:10
3	Scott Norton defeated The Equalizer	Singles match	02:23
4	Jushin Thunder Liger (c) defeated Akira Nogami	Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship	16:08
5	Arn Anderson and Barry Windham defeated Masa Saito and Masahiro Chono	Tag team match	09:17
6	The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) (WCW Tag Champs) defeated Hiroshi Hase and Kensuke Sasaki (IWGP Tag Champs)	Tag team match for the WCW Tag Team Championship & IWGP Tag Team Championship	12:56
7	El Gigante defeated Big Cat Hughes	Singles match	02:16
8	Big Van Vader and Crusher Bam Bam Bigelow defeated Doom (Ron Simmons and Butch Reed)	Tag team match	13:17
9	Riki Choshu defeated Tiger Jeet Singh	Singles match	11:07
10	The Great Muta defeated Sting	Singles match	11:41
11	Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Ric Flair (c)	Singles match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship	23:06
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

II

WCW/New Japan Supershow II
Promotion	World Championship Wrestling New Japan Pro Wrestling
Date	January 4, 1992 Aired March 1992
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Tokyo Dome
Attendance	60,000
Pay-per-view chronology
← Previous Starrcade 1991 Next → SuperBrawl II
NJPW January 4 Dome Show chronology
← Previous First Next → Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome

See also: Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome

WCW/New Japan Supershow II (known as Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome in Japan) took place on January 4, 1992 from the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. The show the first NJPW January 4 Dome Show, something that would become an annual tradition in NJPW and would become their biggest show of the year, their Super Bowl event. The show was broadcast on Pay-per-view (PPV) months later in the United States under the name "WCW/New Japan Supershow II. The US PPV broadcast did not include several of the matches of the 12 match show, with only six being broadcast in the U.S. our of a total of twelve matches. The WCW/NJPW Supershows were part of a small group of WCW produced PPVs that were not included in the "on demand" features when the WWE Network was launched in 2014.

The main event of the show was a tag team match between The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) and the team of the top Face of NJPW and WCW as The Great Muta teamed up with Sting. The show also featured WCW World Heavyweight Champion Lex Luger successfully defending the championship against NJPW representative Masahiro Chono.

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times
1	Black Cat defeated Hiroyoshi Yamamoto	Singles match	10:28
2	Osamu Kido and Kuniaki Kobayashi defeated Kengo Kimura and Kantaro Hoshino	Tag team match	11:54
3	Jushin Thunder Liger, Masashi Aoyagi and Akira Nogami defeated Hiro Saito, Super Strong Machine and Norio Honaga	Six-man tag team match	15:12
4	The Enforcers (Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko) defeated Michiyoshi Ohara and Shiro Koshinaka	Tag team match	12:32
5	Dusty Rhodes and Dustin Rhodes defeated Masa Saito and Kim Duk	Tag team match	14:23
6	Tony Halme defeated Scott Norton	Singles match	08:41
7	Shinya Hashimoto defeated Bill Kazmaier	Singles match	08:37
8	Big Van Vader wrestled El Gigante to a double disqualification	Singles match	04:49
9	Antonio Inoki defeated Hiroshi Hase	Singles match	10:09
10	Lex Luger (c) defeated Masahiro Chono	Singles match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship	15:09
11	Riki Choshu (c - G18) defeated Tatsumi Fujinami (c - IWGP)	Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the Greatest 18 Championship	12:11
12	Sting and The Great Muta defeated The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott)	Tag team match	11:03
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

III

WCW/New Japan Supershow III
Promotion	World Championship Wrestling New Japan Pro Wrestling
Date	January 4, 1993 Aired March 1993
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Tokyo Dome
Attendance	63,500
Pay-per-view chronology
← Previous Starrcade (1992) Next → SuperBrawl III
NJPW January 4 Dome Show chronology
← Previous Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome Next → Battlefield

See also: Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome

WCW/New Japan Supershow III (known as "Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome" in Japan) took place on January 4, 1993 from the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. The show would be the third and final show available on pay-per-view in the United States under the name "WCW/New Japan Supershow". In Japan the show 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 WCW/NJPW Supershows were a part of a small group of WCW produced PPVs not that were included in the "on demand" features when the WWE Network was launched in 2014.

The US broadcast originally advertised that they would show the eight match of the show, an IWGP Tag Team Championship match between champions The Hell Raisers (Hawk Warrior and Power Warrior) defending the championship against WCW representatives The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott), 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 have the match with WAR's Koki Kitahara, Masao Orihara, and Nobukazu Hirai vs. NJPW's Akira Nogami, Takayuki Iizuka, and El Samurai.

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times
1	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 (c - IWGP) defeated Masahiro Chono (c - NWA)	Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Champion and the NWA World Heavyweight Championship	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
8	The Hell Raisers (Hawk Warrior and Power Warrior) (c) wrestled The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) to a double countout	Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship	14:38
9	Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Takashi Ishikawa	Singles match	11:41
10	Genichiro Tenryu defeated Riki Choshu	Singles match	18:14
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

See also

• World Championship Wrestling
• New Japan Pro Wrestling
• List of WCW pay-per-view events
• Collision in Korea