Wrestle Kingdom III

Wrestle Kingdom III
Information
Promotion	New Japan Pro Wrestling
Date	January 4, 2009
Venue	Tokyo Dome
City	Tokyo, Japan
Attendance	40,000
Last Event	Destruction 2008
Next Event	Circuit 2009 New Japan ISM - Night 1

Wrestle Kingdom III was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) produced by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), which took place on January 4, 2009 from the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. It was the third annual event under the NJPW Wrestle Kingdom chronology.

Results

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

(c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.

• Dark match: Milano Collection A.T., Minoru & Taichi Ishikari defeated Mitsuhide Hirasawa, Kazuchika Okada & Nobuo Yoshihashi in a Six Man Tag Team Match (6:24)
• Mistico, Ryusuke Taguchi & Prince Devitt defeated Averno & Great Bash Heel (Jado & Gedo) in a Six Man Tag Team Match (9:50)
• Jushin Thunder Liger & Takuma Sano defeated Wataru Inoue & Koji Kanemoto (8:47)
• The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin) defeated NO LIMIT (Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito) (c) to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (13:21)
• Tiger Mask #4 defeated Low Ki (c) to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (8:48)
• Legend (Riki Choshu & Masahiro Chono) & Main Event Mafia (Kurt Angle & Kevin Nash) defeated Great Bash Heel (Giant Bernard, Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii & Karl Anderson) (7:09)
• Yuji Nagata (c) defeated Masato Tanaka to retain the Zero1 World Heavyweight Championship (11:41)
• Jun Akiyama defeated Manabu Nakanishi (10:27)
• Team 3D (Brother Ray & Brother Devon) defeated Most Violent Players (Togi Makabe & Toru Yano) (c) to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship(15:34)
• Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto defeated Mitsuharu Misawa & Takashi Sugiura (15:17)
• Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Keiji Muto (c) to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship (30:22)

Also see

• NJPW Wrestle Kingdom

External links

•  NJPW Wrestle Kingdom III on CageMatch.net