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NJPW G1 Climax '96 - Day 3
| Date: Sat, Aug 3rd 1996 | Pay Per View: no |
| Venue: New Sumo Hall - Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, Tokyo | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 11,000 |
Matches for G1 Climax '96 - Day 3
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michiyoshi Ohara | def. (sub) | Yuji Nagata | 09:55 | *** | ||
| 2 | Osamu Kido & Osamu Nishimura & Tadao Yasuda & Takayuki Iizuka | def. (sub) | Akira Nogami & Akitoshi Saito & Kuniaki Kobayashi & Tatsutoshi Goto | 14:45 | 8-person tag | *½ | |
| 3 | Jushin Liger & Norio Honaga | def. (pin) | Negro Casas & Tatsuhito Takaiwa | 12:04 | **¾ | ||
| 4 | Ultimo Dragon (c) | def. (pin) | Shinjiro Otani (c) | British Junior Heavyweight Title NWA Welterweight Title UWA Junior Heavyweight Title (title change) | ****¾ | ||
| 5 | The Great Sasuke (c) | def. (pin) | El Samurai (c) | 16:25 | IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title NWA Junior Heavyweight Title WWA Junior Lightheavyweight Title (title change) | ****¼ | |
| 6 | Kazuo Yamazaki | def. (sub) | Satoshi Kojima | 09:56 | *½ | ||
| 7 | Hiroyoshi Tenzan | def. (pin) | Shinya Hashimoto | 11:27 | ***¾ | ||
| 8 | Shiro Koshinaka | def. (pin) | Masa Chono | 22:10 | ***¾ | ||