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- Wrestling World 2000 was a professional wrestling event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on January 4, 2000 in the Tokyo Dome. Wrestling World 2000 was the ninth January 4 Tokyo Dome Show held by NJPW. The show drew 53,500 spectators and $5,900,000 in ticket sales. The event saw the return of World Championship Wrestling's Chris Benoit under the ring name Wild Pegasus, reprising the character he played for NJPW in the early to mid-1990s. The show also featured Rick Steiner and Randy Savage, both working as freelancers brought in specifically for the show. The twelve match card saw a successful defense of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship and the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship as well as Kensuke Sasaki defeating Genichiro Tenryu to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. The undercard featured a match between Masahiro Chono defeated Keiji Mutoh bearing a stipulation that the losing wrestler's faction would have to disband. Chono represented Team 2000, while Mutoh represented nWo Japan. Through Mutoh's loss nWo Japan ceased to be. It also featured the retirement match of Kazuo Yamazaki, as he wrestled his student, Yuji Nagata. (en)
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- Chris Benoit, who portrayed his former gimmick "Wild Pegasus" at the event. (en)
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- Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeated Wild Pegasus (en)
- Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Koji Kanemoto (en)
- Kensuke Sasaki defeated Genichiro Tenryu (en)
- Kimo defeated Kazuyuki Fujita by disqualification (en)
- Manabu Nakanishi defeated Kenzo Suzuki (en)
- Masahiro Chono defeated Keiji Mutoh (en)
- Rick Steiner defeated Randy Savage (en)
- Scott Norton defeated Don Frye (en)
- Shiro Koshinaka defeated Satoshi Kojima (en)
- Yuji Nagata defeated Kazuo Yamazaki (en)
- Shinya Hashimoto and Takashi Iizuka defeated Kazunari Murakami and Naoya Ogawa (en)
- Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Kendo Kashin and Minoru Tanaka (en)
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- Wrestling World 2000 (en)
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- Tag team match (en)
- Singles match (en)
- Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship (en)
- Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (en)
- Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (en)
- Singles match; with Mutoh losing, nWo Japan was forced to disband (en)
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- Wrestling World 2000 was a professional wrestling event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on January 4, 2000 in the Tokyo Dome. Wrestling World 2000 was the ninth January 4 Tokyo Dome Show held by NJPW. The show drew 53,500 spectators and $5,900,000 in ticket sales. The event saw the return of World Championship Wrestling's Chris Benoit under the ring name Wild Pegasus, reprising the character he played for NJPW in the early to mid-1990s. The show also featured Rick Steiner and Randy Savage, both working as freelancers brought in specifically for the show. The twelve match card saw a successful defense of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship and the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship as well as Kensuke Sasaki defeating Genichiro Tenryu to win the IWGP (en)
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- Wrestling World 2000 (en)
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- Wrestling World 2000 (en)
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