| Battle Satellite in Tokyo Dome | |||
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| Promotion | New Japan Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | April 24, 1989 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Tokyo Dome | ||
| Attendance | 43,800[1] | ||
| Tagline | Super Powers Clash | ||
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Battle Satellite in Tokyo Dome (Japanese:'89格闘衛星☆闘強導夢,Hepburn:'89 Kakutō Eisei ☆ Tōkyōdōmu) was a majorprofessional wrestling event produced byNew Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on April 24, 1989 at theTokyo Dome inTokyo,Japan. It was the first major professional wrestling event held in the Tokyo Dome, with wrestlers from theUnited States,Japan, and theSoviet Union.
The event saw a one night single-elimination tournament for the vacantIWGP Heavyweight Championship, the debut of theJushin Liger character in NJPW, andAntonio Inoki versusShota Chochishvili in a no rope martial arts match for theWWF World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship.
The Tokyo Dome opened on March 17, 1988. At the time, NJPW looked to use the Dome to hold the first major wrestling event of theHeisei period.[2]
The event featured fourteenprofessional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds andstorylines. Wrestlers portrayedvillains,heroes, orless distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[3]
Battle Satellite in Tokyo Dome was a great success for NJPW, and the Dome would be a home for many years to come forpuroresu. Starting in 1992, NJPW returned to the Dome to hold the first of what has become an annual tradition and their biggest show of the year, theJanuary 4 Tokyo Dome Show.
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
| Big Van Vader | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Masahiro Chono | 5:52 | |||||||||||||
| Big Van Vader | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Tatsumi Fujinami | 14:37 | |||||||||||||
| Tatsumi Fujinami | Sub | |||||||||||||
| Vladimir Berkovich | 4:51 | |||||||||||||
| Big Van Vader | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Shinya Hashimoto | 9:47 | |||||||||||||
| Victor Zangiev | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Buzz Sawyer | 3:56 | |||||||||||||
| Victor Zangiev | 7:28 | |||||||||||||
| Shinya Hashimoto | Sub | |||||||||||||
| Shinya Hashimoto | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Riki Choshu | 3:41 | |||||||||||||