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  • Shows: 3
    Total attendance: 33,500
    Average attendance: 11,167
    Highest attendance: 11,500 on 8/3/97 (headlined by Kensuke Sasaki vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan)
    Lowest attendance: 11,000 on 8/1/97 & 8/2/97 (headlined by Shinya Hashimoto vs. Kazuo Yamazaki / Shinya Hashimoto vs. Masahiro Chono)
    Longest match: Masahiro Chono vs. Michiyoshi Ohara on 8/1/97 at 18:39
    Shortest match: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Scott Norton on 8/3/97 at 5:16

    NJPW, 8/3/97 (WPW)
    Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
    11,500 Fans
    - Super No Vacancy Full House

    1. Kuniaki Kobayashi & Akitoshi Saito beat Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani (15:45) when Saito used a flying kneel kick on Otani.
    2. Tatsuhito Takaiwa beat El Samurai (16:42) with a Michinoku Driver II.
    3. Jushin Thunder Liger beat Kendo Kashin (12:19) with an avalanche-style Fisherman buster.
    4. Buff Bagwell & Hiro Saito beat Tatsutoshi Goto & Michiyoshi Ohara (13:11) when Bagwell used a Blockbuster on Goto.
    5. G1 Climax - Semi Final: Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Shinya Hashimoto (14:01) with a diving headbutt.
    6. G1 Climax - Semi Final: Kensuke Sasaki beat Scott Norton (5:16) with a Northern Light bomb.
    7. Great Muta beat Steven Regal World Championship Wrestling (6:40) with a moonsault press.
    8. Tatsumi Fujinami, Kengo Kimura & Akira Nogami beat Junji Hirata, Manabu Nakanishi & Satoshi Kojima (12:57) when Nogami pinned Kojima.
    9. G1 Climax - Final: Kensuke Sasaki beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan (8:09) with a Northern Light bomb.

    NJPW, 8/2/97 (WPW)
    Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
    11,000 Fans
    - Super No Vacancy

    1. Jushin Thunder Liger, El Samurai & Norio Honaga beat Koji Kanemoto, Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa (15:41) when Honaga pinned Kanemoto.
    2. Tatsutoshi Goto, Kuniaki Kobayashi & Michiyoshi Ohara beat Kazuo Yamazaki, Osamu Kido & Takashi Iizuka (13:18) when Goto used a backdrop suplex on Iizuka.
    3. Kengo Kimura, Akira Nogami & Akitoshi Saito beat Junji Hirata, Manabu Nakanishi & Tadao Yasuda (12:04) when Kimura pinned Yasuda.
    4. Steven Regal World Championship Wrestling beat Hiro Saito (9:36) with the Royal stretch.
    5. Different Style Fight: Don Frye beat Kazuyuki Fujita (6:40) with a leg neck lock.
    6. G1 Climax - Quarter Final: Kensuke Sasaki beat Buff Bagwell (8:04) with an ipponzei.
    7. G1 Climax - Quarter Final: Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Satoshi Kojima (11:43) with a moonsault press.
    8. G1 Climax - Quarter Final: Scott Norton beat Great Muta (6:31) with a powerslam.
    9. G1 Climax - Quarter Final: Shinya Hashimoto beat Masahiro Chono (5:45) with a standing achilles tendon hold.

    NJPW, 8/1/97 (WPW)
    Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
    11,000 Fans
    - Super No Vacancy

    1. Takashi Iizuka & Kazuyuki Fujita beat Kendo Kashin & Tatsuhito Takaiwa (9:20) when Iizuka used a cross armbreaker on Takaiwa.
    2. Koji Kanemoto & Shinjiro Otani beat Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai (17:21) when Otani used a swan dive DDT on Liger.
    3. Tatsumi Fujinami & Osamu Kido beat Riki Choshu & Kengo Kimura (9:06) when Kido used the Kido clutch on Kimura.
    4. G1 Climax - Round 1: Satoshi Kojima beat Steven Regal World Championship Wrestling (9:45) with a chin crusher.
    5. G1 Climax - Round 1: Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Tadao Yasuda (10:39) with a moonsault press.
    6. G1 Climax - Round 1: Scott Norton beat Junji Hirata (6:31) with a powerbomb.
    7. G1 Climax - Round 1: Masahiro Chono beat Michiyoshi Ohara (18:39) with a Butterfly Lock.
    8. G1 Climax - Round 1: Great Muta beat Manabu Nakanishi (10:25) with an avalanche-style Frankensteiner.
    9. G1 Climax - Round 1: Shinya Hashimoto beat Kazuo Yamazaki (11:35) by referee stop.

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