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NJPW Rising The Next Generation
| Date: Sat, Aug 8th 1998 | Pay Per View: no |
| Venue: Osaka Dome, Osaka, Osaka | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 35,000 |
Matches for Rising The Next Generation
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kendo Ka Shin | def. (sub) | El Samurai | 10:13 | |||
| 2 | Kazuo Yamazaki & Osamu Nishimura | def. (sub) | Tadao Yasuda & Takashi Iizuka | 11:00 | |||
| 3 | Shiro Koshinaka | def. (pin) | Hiroyoshi Tenzan | 08:24 | |||
| 4 | Manabu Nakanishi & Satoshi Kojima | def. (pin) | Kazuyuki Fujita & Yuji Nagata | 12:02 | |||
| 5 | The Great Kabuki & The Great Muta | def. (pin) | Michiyoshi Ohara & Tatsutoshi Goto | 10:33 | |||
| 6 | The Great Sasuke | def. (pin) | Jushin Liger | 15:11 | |||
| 7 | Kensuke Sasaki | def. (DQ) | Don Frye | 09:06 | |||
| 8 | Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa | def. (pin) | Dr. Wagner Jr. & Koji Kanemoto | 20:13 | IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (title change) | ||
| 9 | Genichiro Tenryu | def. (pin) | Shinya Hashimoto | 14:12 | |||
| 10 | Masa Chono | def. (sub) | Tatsumi Fujinami (c) | 19:53 | IWGP Heavyweight Championship (title change) | ||