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NJPW G1 Climax Special '96 - Day 9
| Date: Mon, Sep 23rd 1996 | Pay Per View: no |
| Venue: Yokohama Arena, Yokohama, Kanagawa | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 16,000 |
Matches for G1 Climax Special '96 - Day 9
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dean Malenko & Shinjiro Otani | def. | Black Tiger II & El Samurai | 13:19 | |||
| 2 | Junji Hirata & Osamu Nishimura & Satoshi Kojima & Yuji Nagata | def. | Akira Nogami & Akitoshi Saito & Kuniaki Kobayashi & Michiyoshi Ohara | 09:40 | 8-person tag | ||
| 3 | Lex Luger & Sting | def. | Arn Anderson & Steven Regal | 12:03 | |||
| 4 | Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami | def. | Kengo Kimura & Tatsutoshi Goto | 07:08 | |||
| 5 | Animal Warrior | def. | Tadao Yasuda | 03:31 | |||
| 6 | Rick Steiner | def. | Kurasawa | 08:00 | |||
| 7 | Kensuke Sasaki | def. | Scott Norton | ||||
| 8 | Shiro Koshinaka | def. | Shinya Hashimoto | 10:56 | |||
| 9 | Jushin Thunder Liger | def. | Wild Pegasus | 18:31 | |||
| 10 | Keiji Muto | def. | Pedro Otavio | 06:06 | Vale Tudo rules | ||
| 11 | Hiroyoshi Tenzan (c) & Masahiro Chono (c) | def. | Kazuo Yamazaki & Takashi Iizuka | 18:06 | IWGP World Tag Team Titles | ||
| 12 | Kensuke Sasaki | def. | Shiro Koshinaka | 12:10 | |||