WCW/New Japan Supershow III

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.[3] The show would be the third and final show available on pay-per-view in America 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.

WCW/New Japan Supershow III
Promotion	World Championship Wrestling New Japan Pro Wrestling
Date	January 4, 1993[1] Aired March 1993
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Tokyo Dome
Attendance	63,500[1] (official) 53,500[2] (claimed)
Pay-per-view chronology
← Previous Starrcade Next → SuperBrawl III
NJPW January 4 Dome Show chronology
← Previous Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome Next → Battlefield
WCW/New Japan Supershow chronology
← Previous II Next → Final

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 Steiner and Scott Steiner), 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.

The WCW/NJPW Supershows were a 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.[4]

Storylines

The event featured ten professional wrestling matches and two pre-show matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[5]

Other on-screen personnel

Role:	Name:
Commentator	Tony Schiavone
	Jim Ross

Results

No.	Results[6]	Stipulations	Times
1^D	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 (IWGP) defeated Masahiro Chono (NWA)	Singles match for the IWGP and the NWA World Heavyweight Championships	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^D	The Hell Raisers (Hawk Warrior and Power Warrior) (c) wrestled The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) to a double countout	Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship	14:38
9^D	Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Takashi Ishikawa	Singles match	11:41
10^D	Genichiro Tenryu defeated Riki Choshu	Singles match	18:14
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match D – indicates the match was a dark match

See also

• 1993 in professional wrestling

References

1. "Fantastic Story". ProWrestlingHistory.com. January 4, 1993. Retrieved April 13, 2010.
2. Meltzer, Dave (January 16, 2012). "Jan 16 Observer Newsletter: Cyborg busted for steroids, all the details, Edge and Horsemen going into WWE Hall, New Japan Dome Show review, 30 year Muchnick retrospective, TNA and Strikeforce shows, more". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Campbell, California. pp. 14–16. ISSN 1083-9593.
3. "WCW/New Japan Pay Per Views WCW/New Japan Supershow III". Prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved October 6, 2007.
4. "16 PPVs now on the WWE Network". Archived from the original on July 23, 2014. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
5. Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on 2013-11-18. Retrieved 2014-01-05.
6. Cawthon, Graham (2014). the History of Professional Wrestling Vol 4: World Championship Wrestling 1989-1994. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 1499656343.