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NJPW G1 Climax '97 - Day 1
| Date: Fri, Aug 1st 1997 | Pay Per View: no |
| Venue: New Sumo Hall - Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, Tokyo | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 10,500 |
Matches for G1 Climax '97 - Day 1
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kazuyuki Fujita & Takashi Iizuka | def. (sub) | Kendo Ka Shin & Tatsuhito Takaiwa | 09:20 | |||
| 2 | Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani | def. (pin) | El Samurai & Jushin Liger | 17:24 | |||
| 3 | Osamu Kido & Tatsumi Fujinami | def. (pin) | Kengo Kimura & Riki Choshu | 09:06 | |||
| 4 | Satoshi Kojima | def. (pin) | Steven Regal | 09:45 | |||
| 5 | Hiroyoshi Tenzan | def. (pin) | Tadao Yasuda | 10:31 | |||
| 6 | Scott Norton | def. (pin) | Junji Hirata | 06:31 | |||
| 7 | Masa Chono | def. (sub) | Michiyoshi Ohara | 18:39 | |||
| 8 | The Great Muta | def. (pin) | Manabu Nakanishi | 10:25 | |||
| 9 | Shinya Hashimoto | def. (sub) | Kazuo Yamazaki | 11:35 | |||