Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Giant Baba Memorial Spectacular was a professional wrestling memorial event produced by the All-Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) promotion, which took place on January 28, 2001 at the Tokyo Egg Dome in Tokyo, Japan. It was the first memorial event held in memory of AJPW founder Shohei \"Giant\" Baba since his death in 1999, and subsequently followed by the Giant Baba Memorial Cup and Giant Baba Memorial Six Man Tag Team Tournament a year later. Ten professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card, with two including championships.The main event was an interpromotional Tag Team \"dream match\" between IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kensuke Sasaki and All-Japan's Toshiaki Kawada against Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion Genichiro Tenryu and Hiroshi Hase, a one-time star for New Japan Pro Wrestling and then a member of the Japanese parliament. Another featured bout was a \"Legends match\" which saw Terry Funk team with longtime rival Atsushi Onita to take on Abdullah the Butcher and Giant Kimala, which Funk and Onita won. The event featured two other interpromotional matches on the undercard; New Japan's Jushin Thunder Liger defeating All Japan's Masa Fuchi and Keiji Mutoh beating Taiyō Kea. The team of Johnny Smith, Jim Steele and George Hines defeated Mike Rotunda, Curt Hennig and Barry Windham (substituting for an injured Kendall Windham). The show also included a special in-ring retirement ceremony for Stan Hansen, one of the most dominant \"Gaijin heels\" in the promotion's history, was honored by several wrestlers including The Destroyer and Mil Máscaras.The event was highly anticipated according to the professional wrestling section of the Canadian Online Explorer, especially the \"dream team\" featured in the main event, but later reported that it attracted \"a disappointing crowd of 30,000 fans\". The show was aired on Nippon TV two days later."@en }
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- Giant_Baba_Memorial_Spectacular abstract "The Giant Baba Memorial Spectacular was a professional wrestling memorial event produced by the All-Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) promotion, which took place on January 28, 2001 at the Tokyo Egg Dome in Tokyo, Japan. It was the first memorial event held in memory of AJPW founder Shohei \"Giant\" Baba since his death in 1999, and subsequently followed by the Giant Baba Memorial Cup and Giant Baba Memorial Six Man Tag Team Tournament a year later. Ten professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card, with two including championships.The main event was an interpromotional Tag Team \"dream match\" between IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kensuke Sasaki and All-Japan's Toshiaki Kawada against Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion Genichiro Tenryu and Hiroshi Hase, a one-time star for New Japan Pro Wrestling and then a member of the Japanese parliament. Another featured bout was a \"Legends match\" which saw Terry Funk team with longtime rival Atsushi Onita to take on Abdullah the Butcher and Giant Kimala, which Funk and Onita won. The event featured two other interpromotional matches on the undercard; New Japan's Jushin Thunder Liger defeating All Japan's Masa Fuchi and Keiji Mutoh beating Taiyō Kea. The team of Johnny Smith, Jim Steele and George Hines defeated Mike Rotunda, Curt Hennig and Barry Windham (substituting for an injured Kendall Windham). The show also included a special in-ring retirement ceremony for Stan Hansen, one of the most dominant \"Gaijin heels\" in the promotion's history, was honored by several wrestlers including The Destroyer and Mil Máscaras.The event was highly anticipated according to the professional wrestling section of the Canadian Online Explorer, especially the \"dream team\" featured in the main event, but later reported that it attracted \"a disappointing crowd of 30,000 fans\". The show was aired on Nippon TV two days later.".