Dome Impact 2000: WrestleFile Historical Verdict

Yuji Nagata defeated Kendo Kashin in 12:16 in the first match of Dome Impact at Tokyo Dome on April 7, 2000. Billed as Challenge the Super Heavy, the singles opener put Nagata against Kashin rather than against one of the heavyweight title contenders. WrestleFile rated it C+ / 6.8. The event did not feature a new IWGP Heavyweight Champion in the finale; Naoya Ogawa defeated Shinya Hashimoto in a separate non-title knockout result. Nagata's win introduced one of several cross-division Challenge the Super Heavy matches, while later contests featured Masahiro Chono winning by disqualification and Kensuke Sasaki defeating Jushin Thunder Liger.

Manabu Nakanishi defeated Scott Norton in 11:07 at Dome Impact on April 7, 2000, under the advertised Super Power Battle name. WrestleFile assigned the second match C+ / 6.5. It was a non-title singles meeting featuring a pair of heavyweight wrestlers, not the later Sasaki-Liger clash billed as Challenge the Super Heavy - IWGP Kings. Nakanishi was the credited winner, while Norton was the opponent. The two men did not exchange the IWGP Heavyweight Championship here. The evening instead concluded with Naoya Ogawa knocking out Shinya Hashimoto in an individually billed Extreme Shock final, which the event account explicitly distinguishes from a title change.

Don Frye defeated Koji Kanemoto in 9:59 in the Challenge the Super Heavy third match of Dome Impact 2000 at Tokyo Dome. WrestleFile rated the singles result C+ / 6.5. Frye was the winner and Kanemoto the losing junior wrestler; the saved match result does not state a specific submission, knockout, or championship transfer, despite Frye's background in combat sports. The crossover pairing is a different attraction from Kensuke Sasaki versus Jushin Thunder Liger near the close of the card, another heavyweight-junior match with the same broad advertisement. Ogawa's documented knockout of Hashimoto belongs to the final match, not to this Frye-Kanemoto result.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeated Yutaka Yoshie in 12:34 in the fourth bout of Dome Impact on April 7, 2000, specifically billed as Yoshie's Return Match. WrestleFile gave it C+ / 6.8. The returning wrestler was Yoshie, but Tenzan was the recorded winner, making a celebratory Yoshie victory an incorrect retelling. No IWGP Heavyweight Championship was at stake in their middle-card singles pairing. Tenzan later worked the high-profile title picture in other years, but the April 2000 card built toward Naoya Ogawa versus Shinya Hashimoto, a knockout finish that did not create a new champion. The exact match billing explains Yoshie's role despite the result.

Satoshi Kojima defeated Shinjiro Otani in 10:06 in the fifth Dome Impact 2000 match, one of the event's Challenge the Super Heavy pairings. WrestleFile graded it C+ / 6.5. Kojima was the winning wrestler, Otani the unsuccessful opponent, with no title change or specific finish established in this result. This cross-division encounter is distinct from the earlier Don Frye-Koji Kanemoto challenge and the later Kensuke Sasaki-Jushin Thunder Liger contest. Keeping the individual winners intact gives the match a recognizable place in the card's recurring format, without treating the event as an IWGP tournament or assigning Ogawa's subsequent knockout result to unrelated participants.

Takashi Iizuka defeated Kazunari Murakami in 11:26 in the sixth match of Dome Impact, presented under the special Sink or Swim! billing. WrestleFile assigned C+ / 6.5. Iizuka's victory was a non-title singles result that preceded the more unusual Restricted Zone match, where Masahiro Chono beat The Great Muta by disqualification. The two outcomes have different winners and separately documented circumstances, while the final Naoya Ogawa-Shinya Hashimoto pairing ended by knockout. The event ledger does not specify an individual finish for Iizuka-Murakami, so a submission, referee decision, or disqualification should not be inferred simply from the show's surrounding special rules.

Masahiro Chono defeated The Great Muta by DISQUALIFICATION in 16:21 in the Restricted Zone encounter at Dome Impact on April 7, 2000. WrestleFile graded this seventh match B- / 7.1, its second-strongest numeric assessment after the knockout finale. Chono was awarded the result through a disqualification rather than by pinfall or a title victory. No IWGP Heavyweight Championship transfer followed. The next match saw Kensuke Sasaki defeat Jushin Thunder Liger in a cross-division special, while the final Naoya Ogawa-Shinya Hashimoto contest ended by knockout. Those three late outcomes deserve distinct official methods rather than an interchangeable narrative of conventional victories.

Kensuke Sasaki defeated Jushin Thunder Liger in only 7:40 under the Challenge the Super Heavy - IWGP Kings billing in Dome Impact's penultimate match. WrestleFile graded the cross-division singles attraction C+ / 6.6. Sasaki, rather than the junior star Liger, was the recorded winner. Although the advertisement invokes IWGP Kings, the saved ledger does not identify this contest as a heavyweight or junior title transfer. This result came after Chono's victory over Great Muta by disqualification and before the Ogawa-Hashimoto knockout finale. The short duration and unusual heavyweight-junior pairing explain its specific historical role more clearly than assigning championship stakes absent from the results.

Naoya Ogawa defeated Shinya Hashimoto by KNOCKOUT in 15:09 in Dome Impact's final match on April 7, 2000, billed as Extreme Shock - FINAL IMPACT. WrestleFile's B / 7.6 is the top numeric score for the nine-match Tokyo Dome card. The knockout is an explicit recorded method; replacing it with a pinfall, referee's decision, or title change misstates the historical result. Unlike separate past or future Hashimoto-Ogawa contests, the April 7 event did not put the IWGP Heavyweight Championship at stake in this finale. The preceding Masahiro Chono-Great Muta encounter had ended by disqualification, giving the show's last stretch two individually documented irregular finishes.