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NJPW G1 Climax '02 - Day 1
| Date: Sat, Aug 3rd 2002 | Pay Per View: yes |
| Venue: Furitsu Gym, Osaka, Osaka | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 6,200 |
Matches for G1 Climax '02 - Day 1
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Masahito Kakihara & Masayuki Naruse | def. (sub) | Blue Wolf & Wataru Inoue | 05:50 | |||
| 2 | Gedo & Jado & Koji Kanemoto | def. (sub) | El Samurai & Jushin Liger & Minoru Tanaka | 14:35 | 6-person tag | ||
| 3 | Hiroshi Tanahashi | def. (pin) | Shiro Koshinaka | ||||
| 4 | Hiroyoshi Tenzan | def. (sub) | Yutaka Yoshie | 15:53 | |||
| 5 | Kenzo Suzuki | def. (pin) | Tadao Yasuda | 00:37 | |||
| 6 | Osamu Nishimura | draw (time) | Manabu Nakanishi | 30:00 | |||
| 7 | Yuji Nagata | def. (sub) | Masa Chono | 16:00 | |||
| 8 | Kensuke Sasaki | def. (pin) | Yoshihiro Takayama | ||||