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{{Infobox Wrestling event
|name=Wrestling World 2003
|image=[[File:Wrestling World 2003.jpg]]
|promotion=[[New Japan Pro Wrestling]]
|date={{dts|2003|1|4}}
|venue=[[Tokyo Dome]]
|city=[[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]
|attendance=30,000
|liveevent=y
|event= January 4 Dome Show
|lastevent=[[Wrestling World 2002|2002]]
|nextevent=[[Wrestling World 2004|2004]]
}}'''Wrestling World 2003''' was the title of [[New Japan Pro Wrestling]] (NJPW)'s annual start of the year show that takes place on January 4 in the [[Tokyo Dome]] each year. Wrestling World 2003 was the twelfth January 4 Dome Show held by NJPW. The show drew 30,000 spectators. The show featured the semi–finals and the finals of the "Young Generation Cup", an NJPW tournament for relative newcomers who have yet to establish themselves as top level wrestlers, which saw [[Ryushi Yanagisawa]] defeat [[Yutaka Yoshie]] to win the cup. The show featured a total of eleven maches, including a match for the vacant [[NWF Heavyweight Championship]] that [[Yoshihiro Takayama]] won by defeating [[Tsuyoshi Kohsaka|Tsuyoshi Kosaka]]. The main event was a successful defense of the [[IWGP Heavyweight Championship]] as champion [[Yuji Nagata]] defeated [[Josh Barnett]].

==Results==
;{{small|Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.}}
;{{small|(c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.}}
*[[Osamu Nishimura]] defeated [[Tatsumi Fujinami]] (8:10)
*[[Yutaka Yoshie]] defeated [[Togi Makabe|Shinya Makabe]] in a Semifinal match of the Young Generation Cup (13:20)
*[[Ryushi Yanagisawa]] defeated [[Kenzo Suzuki]] in a Semifinal match of the Young Generation Cup (9:23)
*[[Dai Majin]] & [[Junji Hirata|Makai #1]] defeated [[Tatsutoshi Goto]] & [[Hiro Saito]] by DQ (7:50)
*[[Katsuyori Shibata|Makai #4]] & [[Mitsuya Nagai|Makai #5]] defeated [[Takayuki Iizuka|Takashi Iizuka]] & [[Masahito Kakihara]] (10:54)
*[[Koji Kanemoto]], [[Jushin Liger]] and [[Takehiro Murahama]] defeated [[Minoru Tanaka|HEAT]], [[Masayuki Naruse]] & [[Tiger Mask IV]] (16:10)
*[[Ryushi Yanagisawa]] defeated [[Yutaka Yoshie]] in the Finals of the Young Generation Cup (6:48)
*[[Shinsuke Nakamura]] & [[Michiyoshi Ohara]] defeated [[Kazunari Murakami]] & [[Tadao Yasuda]] (7:12)
*[[Satoshi Kojima]] & [[Hiroyoshi Tenzan]] defeated [[Masahiro Chono]] & [[Manabu Nakanishi]] (23:18)
*[[Yoshihiro Takayama]] defeated [[Tsuyoshi Kohsaka|Tsuyoshi Kosaka]] to win the vacant [[NWF Heavyweight Championship]] (10:19)
*[[Yuji Nagata]] (c) defeated [[Josh Barnett]] to retain the [[IWGP Heavyweight Championship]] (10:40)

==External links==
*[[File:Cm logo.jpg|50px]] [https://www.cagematch.net//?id=1&nr=834 Results]

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