# 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 (NJPW), a Japan-based professional wrestling promotion. NJPW has promoted events in the venue every January 4 since Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome in 1992. Since its debut on pay-per-view in 2007, the January 4 show has been branded as Wrestle Kingdom.
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. It has been described as "the largest professional wrestling show in the world outside of the United States" and the "Japanese equivalent to the Super Bowl". 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 two WCW/New Japan Supershows. 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 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. The lowest attendances for any Dome Shows were for the 2021 event, held under attendance restrictions due to COVID-19; NJPW announced an attendance of 12,689 for the first night and 7,801 for the second. Prior to COVID-19, the 2007 and 2011 Dome shows drew the lowest unofficial gates, with only 18,000 in attendance.
As of 2021, the January 4 shows (including matches held on January 5 as part of two-night events) have hosted 328 matches (not including dark or pre-show matches), 126 of which were title matches leading to 69 title changes in total. The 2005 Tokyo Dome show 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 (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.

## Events

| # | Year | Event | Main Event |
| 1 | 1992 | Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome | Riki Choshu (Greatest 18) vs. Tatsumi Fujinami (IWGP Heavyweight) for the Greatest 18 Championship and IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 2 | 1993 | Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome | Genichiro Tenryu vs. Riki Choshu |
| 3 | 1994 | Battlefield | Antonio Inoki vs. Genichiro Tenryu |
| 4 | 1995 | Battle 7 | Shinya Hashimoto (c) vs. Kensuke Sasaki for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
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| 5 | 1996 | Wrestling World 1996 | Keiji Mutoh (c) vs. Nobuhiko Takada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 6 | 1997 | Wrestling World 1997 | Shinya Hashimoto (c) vs. Riki Choshu for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 7 | 1998 | Final Power Hall in Tokyo Dome | Kensuke Sasaki (c) vs. Keiji Mutoh for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 8 | 1999 | Wrestling World 1999 | Scott Norton (c) vs. Keiji Mutoh for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 9 | 2000 | Wrestling World 2000 | Genichiro Tenryu (c) vs. Kensuke Sasaki for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 10 | 2001 | Wrestling World 2001 | Kensuke Sasaki vs. Toshiaki Kawada in the IWGP Heavyweight Championship tournament final |
| 11 | 2002 | Wrestling World 2002 | Jun Akiyama (c) vs. Yuji Nagata for the GHC Heavyweight Championship |
| 12 | 2003 | Wrestling World 2003 | Yuji Nagata (c) vs. Josh Barnett for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 13 | 2004 | Wrestling World 2004 | Shinsuke Nakamura (IWGP) vs. Yoshihiro Takayama (NWF) for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and NWF Heavyweight Championship |
| 14 | 2005 | Toukon Festival: Wrestling World 2005 | Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura for the IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship |
| Toukon Shidou |||||
| 15 | 2006 | Toukon Shidou Chapter 1 | Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| Wrestle Kingdom |||||
| 16 | 2007 | Wrestle Kingdom I | Keiji Mutoh and Masahiro Chono vs. Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima) |
| 17 | 2008 | Wrestle Kingdom II | Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 18 | 2009 | Wrestle Kingdom III | Keiji Mutoh (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 19 | 2010 | Wrestle Kingdom IV | Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Yoshihiro Takayama for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 20 | 2011 | Wrestle Kingdom V | Satoshi Kojima (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 21 | 2012 | Wrestle Kingdom VI | Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Minoru Suzuki for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 22 | 2013 | Wrestle Kingdom 7 | Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 23 | 2014 | Wrestle Kingdom 8 | Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship |
| 24 | 2015 | Wrestle Kingdom 9 | Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 25 | 2016 | Wrestle Kingdom 10 | Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 26 | 2017 | Wrestle Kingdom 11 | Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kenny Omega for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 27 | 2018 | Wrestle Kingdom 12 | Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 28 | 2019 | Wrestle Kingdom 13 | Kenny Omega (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 29 | 2020 | Wrestle Kingdom 14: Night 1 | Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kota Ibushi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 30 | 2021 | Wrestle Kingdom 15: Night 1 | Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Kota Ibushi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and IWGP Intercontinental Championship |
| 31 | 2022 | Wrestle Kingdom 16: Night 1 | Shingo Takagi (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship |
| 32 | 2023 | Wrestle Kingdom 17: Night 1 | Jay White (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship |
| 33 | 2024 | Wrestle Kingdom 18 | Sanada (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship |
| 34 | 2025 | Wrestle Kingdom 19 | Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Shota Umino for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship |
| (c) - refers to the champion(s) heading into the match |||||