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NJPW G1 Climax Special '96 - Day 1
| Date: Thu, Sep 12th 1996 | Pay Per View: no |
| Venue: Miyagi Sports Center, Sendai, Miyagi | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 4,500 |
Matches for G1 Climax Special '96 - Day 1
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akitoshi Saito | def. | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | 11:54 | |||
| 2 | Dean Malenko & Shinjiro Otani | def. | Black Tiger II & El Samurai | 14:09 | |||
| 3 | Michiyoshi Ohara & Tatsutoshi Goto | def. | Osamu Nishimura & Yuji Nagata | 13:19 | |||
| 4 | Osamu Kido | def. | Kuniaki Kobayashi | 07:06 | |||
| 5 | Hiro Saito & Masahiro Chono | def. | Satoshi Kojima & Tadao Yasuda | 11:05 | |||
| 6 | Kurasawa | def. | Hiroyoshi Tenzan | 09:54 | |||
| 7 | Akira Nogami & Shiro Koshinaka & Tatsumi Fujinami | def. | Junji Hirata & Riki Choshu & Takashi Iizuka | 10:22 | 6-person tag | ||
| 8 | Keiji Muto & Rick Steiner | def. | Animal Warrior & Power Warrior | 07:31 | |||
| 9 | Shinya Hashimoto | def. | Kazuo Yamazaki | 11:50 | |||