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NJPW G1 Climax '06 - Day 1
| Date: Sun, Aug 6th 2006 | Pay Per View: no |
| Venue: Niigata City Gymnasium, Niigata, Niigata | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 2,842 |
Matches for G1 Climax '06 - Day 1
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wataru Inoue | def. | Yujiro | 08:28 | |||
| 2 | El Samurai & Ryusuke Taguchi | def. | Minoru & Tetsuya Naito | 12:46 | |||
| 3 | Shiro Koshinaka & Togi Makabe | def. | Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano | 12:11 | |||
| 4 | Akebono & Riki Choshu | def. | Black Strong Machine & Giant Bernard | 09:59 | |||
| 5 | Yuji Nagata | def. | Naofumi Yamamoto | 10:28 | |||
| 6 | Satoshi Kojima | def. | Jushin Thunder Liger | 14:09 | |||
| 7 | Hiroyoshi Tenzan | def. | Koji Kanemoto | 13:07 | |||
| 8 | Hiroshi Tanahashi | def. | Manabu Nakanishi | 14:51 | |||