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NJPW Best of the Super Juniors VIII - Day 1
| Date: Fri, May 18th 2001 | Pay Per View: no |
| Venue: Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Tokyo | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 1,750 |
Matches for Best of the Super Juniors VIII - Day 1
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michiyoshi Ohara & Tatsutoshi Goto | def. | Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kenzo Suzuki | 08:46 | |||
| 2 | AKIRA & Gran Naniwa | def. | El Samurai & Katsuyori Shibata | 11:52 | |||
| 3 | Shiro Koshinaka & Yutaka Yoshie | def. | Junji Hirata & Rob Rage | 10:14 | |||
| 4 | Silver King | def. | Chris Candido | 07:40 | |||
| 5 | Super Shocker | def. | Dr. Wagner Jr. | 14:23 | |||
| 6 | Jushin Thunder Liger | def. | Wataru Inoue | 13:56 | ***½ | ||
| 7 | Minoru Tanaka | def. | Shinya Makabe | 16:34 | ****¼ | ||
| 8 | Brian Johnston & Takashi Iizuka & Yuji Nagata | def. | Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima & Super J | 14:55 | 6-person tag | ||
| 9 | Keiji Muto & Taiyo Kea | def. | Manabu Nakanishi & Osamu Nishimura | 18:42 | |||