TheJanuary 4 Tokyo Dome Show is aprofessional wrestling event produced annually onJanuary 4 in theTokyo Dome byNew Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), a Japan-basedprofessional wrestling promotion. NJPW has promoted events in the venue every January 4 sinceSuper Warriors in Tokyo Dome in 1992. Since its debut onpay-per-view in 2007, the January 4 show has been branded asWrestle Kingdom.

The January 4 Tokyo Dome Show became NJPW's premier annual event and the biggest event inJapanese wrestling, similar to whatWrestleMania is forWWE andAmerican professional wrestling.^[1] It has been described as "the largest professional wrestling show in the world outside of the United States" and the "Japanese equivalent to theSuper Bowl".^[2][3] Since 2014, NJPW has scheduled supporting shows on the days before or after January 4, including a second Wrestle Kingdom show in the Tokyo Dome between 2020 and 2022.

The first two January 4 Tokyo Dome Shows were also the last twoWCW/New Japan Supershows. All the Dome shows have featured championship matches, including several titles not owned by NJPW. On three occasions (1998,2006 and2013), no titles changed hands during the show. The2019 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, the1993 Tokyo Dome show set the attendance record with 63,500 fans packing the Tokyo Dome, while according toDave Meltzer, the 1998 show holds the record with an attendance of 55,000.^[4] The lowest attendances for any Dome Shows were for the2021 event, held under attendance restrictions due toCOVID-19; NJPW announced an attendance of 12,689 for the first night and 7,801 for the second.^[5] Prior to COVID-19, the 2007 and2011 Dome shows drew the lowest unofficial gates, with only 18,000 in attendance.^[4]

As of 2021, the January 4 shows (including matches held on January 5 as part of two-night events) have hosted 328 matches (not includingdark orpre-show matches), 126 of which were title matches leading to 69 title changes in total.^[a] The2005 Tokyo Dome show had a 16-match card, the largest of any single-night show, while2001,2002, 2007,2013,2016,2018 and 2019 featured 9 matches, the lowest number of matches on a single-night show (again, not counting dark or pre-show matches). The first 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 eight matches, fewer than any previous Dome Show card. The second two-night show in 2021, affected by COVID-19, had only 6 matches scheduled for each night.

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