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NJPW G1 Climax '98 - Day 1
| Date: Fri, Jul 31st 1998 | Pay Per View: no |
| Venue: New Sumo Hall - Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, Tokyo | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 11,000 |
Matches for G1 Climax '98 - Day 1
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa | def. (pin) | Dr. Wagner Jr. & Koji Kanemoto | 15:47 | |||
| 2 | El Samurai & Jushin Liger | def. (pin) | Kendo Ka Shin & Yuji Yasuraoka | 11:40 | |||
| 3 | Tadao Yasuda | def. (pin) | Big Titan | 10:35 | |||
| 4 | Satoshi Kojima | def. (pin) | Hiroyoshi Tenzan | 11:08 | |||
| 5 | Shiro Koshinaka | def. (pin) | Osamu Nishimura | 10:05 | |||
| 6 | Kensuke Sasaki | def. (pin) | Michiyoshi Ohara | 10:59 | |||
| 7 | Shinya Hashimoto | def. (TKO) | Tatsutoshi Goto | 04:00 | *½ | ||
| 8 | Kazuo Yamazaki | def. (sub) | Tatsumi Fujinami | 07:35 | |||
| 9 | Masahiro Chono | def. (sub) | Manabu Nakanishi | 18:52 | ***¾ | ||
| 10 | Genichiro Tenryu | def. (pin) | Keiji Mutoh | 21:37 | **** | ||