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NJPW IWGP Champion Series '88 - Day 1
| Date: Fri, May 20th 1988 | Pay Per View: no |
| Venue: Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Tokyo | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 2,050 |
Matches for IWGP Champion Series '88 - Day 1
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Osamu Matsuda | def. (pin) | Takayuki Iizuka | 12:33 | |||
| 2 | Akira Nogami & Tatsutoshi Goto | def. (pin) | Kensuke Sasaki & Norio Honaga | 12:42 | |||
| 3 | Kantaro Hoshino | def. (pin) | Black Cat | 10:56 | |||
| 4 | George Takano & Osamu Kido | def. (pin) | Kendo Nagasaki & Mr. Pogo | 10:23 | |||
| 5 | Keiichi Yamada & Owen Hart | def. | Hiro Saito & Kuniaki Kobayashi | 12:40 | |||
| 6 | Kengo Kimura | def. (DQ) | Adrian Adonis | 09:03 | |||
| 7 | Barry Gaspar & Billy Gaspar | def. (pin) | Masa Saito & Super Strong Machine | 16:25 | |||
| 8 | Dick Murdoch | def. | Yoshiaki Fujiwara | 09:56 | |||
| 9 | Riki Choshu | def. (pin) | Shiro Koshinaka | 03:59 | |||
| 10 | Tatsumi Fujinami | def. (sub) | Hiroshi Hase | 06:02 | |||