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NJPW G1 Climax '96 - Day 2
| Date: Fri, Aug 2nd 1996 | Pay Per View: no |
| Venue: New Sumo Hall - Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, Tokyo | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 10,500 |
Matches for G1 Climax '96 - Day 2
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akitoshi Saito | def. (pin) | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | 13:04 | *** | ||
| 2 | Akira Nogami & Tatsutoshi Goto | def. (pin) | Takayuki Iizuka & Yuji Nagata | 11:43 | *** | ||
| 3 | Shinjiro Otani (c) | def. (pin) | Negro Casas (c) | 11:34 | NWA Welterweight Title UWA Junior Heavyweight Title (title change) | ***½ | |
| 4 | El Samurai (c) | def. (pin) | Gran Hamada (c) | 12:38 | WWA Junior Lightheavyweight Title WWF Light Heavyweight Title (title change) | **½ | |
| 5 | Osamu Kido & Tatsumi Fujinami | def. (pin) | Kengo Kimura & Yoshiaki Fujiwara | 11:29 | *¼ | ||
| 6 | Kensuke Sasaki | def. (KO) | Junji Hirata | 05:08 | *¼ | ||
| 7 | Keiji Mutoh | def. (pin) | Satoshi Kojima | 15:21 | **½ | ||
| 8 | Riki Choshu | def. (pin) | Hiroyoshi Tenzan | 05:12 | *¼ | ||
| 9 | Shiro Koshinaka | def. (pin) | Kazuo Yamazaki | 13:50 | ***¾ | ||