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Final Dome
Promotion
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
DateOctober 11, 1999[1]
CityTokyo, Japan[1]
VenueTokyo Dome[1]
Attendance48,000[1]

Final Dome was a major professional wrestling event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on October 12, 1999 at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan and was televised live on TV Asahi.[2]

Ten

nWo Japan (Satoshi Kojima and Scott Norton) and Jushin Liger defeated Kendo Kashin to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship while Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa retained the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka).[2]

Production

Storylines

The main event of the event pitted the defending champion

NWA World Heavyweight Championship. The lengthy rivalry between Ogawa and Hashimoto began at Battle Formation on April 12, 1997, where Ogawa pulled out an upset victory in his debut match against Hashimoto by knocking him out with a choke in a different style fight.[3] This earned Ogawa, a title shot against Hashimoto for the latter's IWGP Heavyweight Championship, the following month at Strong Style Evolution, where Hashimoto retained the title.[4] The duo had a rubber match at the 1999 Wrestling World event, where they fought to a no contest after Ogawa hit Hashimoto viciously and knocked him out. The feud further escalated when Hashimoto attacked Ogawa at a press conference in the United States
after Ogawa won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, thus setting up a match between the two for the latter's title at Final Dome.

A second main event of Final Dome was between

Keiji Mutoh and Manabu Nakanishi for the former's IWGP Heavyweight Championship. On August 15, Nakanishi defeated Mutoh in the finals of the 1999 G1 Climax to win the tournament, thus earning a future title shot against Mutoh.[5]
This set up a title match between the two at Final Dome.

Event

Preliminary matches

The event kicked off with a match between

diving headbutt on Goto.[6]

Next,

Achilles tendon hold.[6]

Next, the team of Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Junior Stars (Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka). Otani delivered a Spiral Bomb to Kanemoto to win the match and retain the titles.[6]

Next,

fisherman buster to Kashin to win the title.[6]

Next, the team of Shiro Koshinaka and Tatsumi Fujinami took on Osamu Kido and Takashi Iizuka in a tag team match. Koshinaka executed a powerbomb on Iizuka for the win.[6]

Next, Yuji Nagata took on Kimo. Kimo won the match via submission by applying a sleeper hold on Nagata.[6]

Next,

nWo Japan representatives Satoshi Kojima and Scott Norton in a tag team match. Chono made Kojima submit to the STF for the win.[6]

Later,

Wrestle Association R representative Genichiro Tenryu in an interpromotional match. Tenryu nailed a scoop brainbuster on Sasaki for the win.[6]

The penultimate match was for the

cross armbreaker to retain the title.[6]

Main event match

In the main event,

NWA World Heavyweight Championship against Shinya Hashimoto, with Tatsumi Fujinami serving as the special guest referee. Hashimoto was knocked out after a series of stiff kicks and punches by Ogawa, which resulted in Fujinami stopping the match and Ogawa was awarded the victory and thus retained the title.[6]

Aftermath

The feud between Naoya Ogawa and Shinya Hashimoto continued after Final Dome as the two squared off in a tag team match on opposite sides at Wrestling World 2000, where Ogawa teamed with Kazunari Murakami and Hashimoto teamed with Takashi Iizuka. Hashimoto and Iizuka won the match. Ogawa and Hashimoto had one final encounter at Dome Impact, which Ogawa won to end the feud.

Minoru Tanaka would challenge Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa for the Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, with Kendo Kashin as his partner at Wrestling World but failed to win the titles. Tanaka would then receive a Final Dome rematch with Koji Kanemoto against Otani and Takaiwa on June 25, where they won the titles.

Results

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes
1
NWA World Heavyweight Championship with Tatsumi Fujinami as the special guest referee
13:10
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Final Dome 1999". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b "NJPW Final Dome 1999". Cagematch. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Battle Formation 1997". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Strong Style Evolution". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  5. ^ "G-1 Climax Finals 1999". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "New Japan Pro-Wrestling Results: 1999". Puro Love. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
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