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NJPW Battle Formation 1997
| Date: Sat, Apr 12th 1997 | Pay Per View: no |
| Venue: Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Tokyo | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 60,500 |
Matches for Battle Formation 1997
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hiroyoshi Tenzan | def. (sub) | Manabu Nakanishi | 14:29 | |||
| 2 | El Samurai | def. (pin) | Shinjiro Otani | 13:51 | ***¾ | ||
| 3 | Chris Benoit | def. (pin) | Kevin Sullivan | 09:17 | |||
| 4 | Junji Hirata & Satoshi Kojima | def. (pin) | Kazuo Yamazaki & Osamu Kido | 10:18 | |||
| 5 | Shiro Koshinaka | def. (pin) | Takashi Ishikawa | 11:16 | |||
| 6 | Jushin Liger (c) | def. (pin) | The Great Sasuke | 20:08 | J-Crown Championship | ***¾ | |
| 7 | Antonio Inoki | def. (sub) | Tiger King | 06:46 | |||
| 8 | Keiji Mutoh | def. (pin) | Masa Chono | 14:09 | |||
| 9 | Kensuke Sasaki & Riki Choshu | def. (pin) | Kengo Kimura (c) & Tatsumi Fujinami (c) | 15:39 | IWGP World Tag Team Titles | ||
| 10 | Naoya Ogawa | def. (KO) | Shinya Hashimoto | 09:25 | |||