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NJPW New Year Golden Series '88 - Day 1
| Date: Mon, Jan 4th 1988 | Pay Per View: no |
| Venue: Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Tokyo | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 2,200 |
Matches for New Year Golden Series '88 - Day 1
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akira Nogami | def. | Tatsuo Nakano | 09:03 | |||
| 2 | Keiichi Yamada & Yuji Funaki | def. | Kensuke Sasaki & Norio Honaga | 08:13 | |||
| 3 | Steve R. Blackman & Tony St. Clair | def. | Black Cat & Osamu Kido | 07:43 | |||
| 4 | Shiro Koshinaka | def. | Tatsutoshi Goto | 08:12 | |||
| 5 | Nobuhiko Takada | def. | Kuniaki Kobayashi | 10:18 | |||
| 6 | George Takano & Kengo Kimura | def. | Buzz Sawyer & Johnny K-9 | 09:09 | |||
| 7 | Hiro Saito & Riki Choshu | def. | Kazuo Yamazaki & Yoshiaki Fujiwara | 07:30 | |||
| 8 | Antonio Inoki | def. (DQ) | Big Van Vader | 10:12 | |||
| 9 | Hiroshi Hase | def. | Owen Hart | 13:09 | ***½ | ||
| 10 | Tatsumi Fujinami | def. | Masa Saito | 07:50 | |||