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NJPW G1 Climax '12 - Day 1
| Date: Wed, Aug 1st 2012 | Pay Per View: no |
| Venue: Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Tokyo | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 2,020 |
Matches for G1 Climax '12 - Day 1
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rush | def. (pin) | Hirooki Goto | 08:02 | |||
| 2 | Minoru Suzuki | def. (pin) | Yujiro Takahashi | 08:05 | |||
| 3 | Karl Anderson | def. (pin) | Yuji Nagata | 11:28 | |||
| 4 | Lance Archer | def. (pin) | Togi Makabe | 09:55 | |||
| 5 | Naomichi Marufuji | def. (pin) | Satoshi Kojima | 11:37 | |||
| 6 | Kazuchika Okada | def. (pin) | Hiroyoshi Tenzan | 11:20 | |||
| 7 | Tetsuya Naito | def. (pin) | Shinsuke Nakamura | 13:39 | |||
| 8 | Hiroshi Tanahashi | def. (pin) | Shelton Benjamin | 13:54 | |||