Pro-Wrestling Summit 2008

Pro-Wrestling Summit 2008: Countdown Pro-Wrestling (プロレスサミット2008〜カウントダウンプロレス〜) was a Japanese professional wrestling event co-produced by Apache Pro-Wrestling Army, Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW), DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), International Wrestling Association of Japan (IWA Japan), Kaientai Dojo (K-Dojo), Michinoku Pro Wrestling (M-Pro) and Osaka Pro Wrestling (OPW) on December 31, 2008, at Korakuen Hall, with the participation of wrestlers from All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), Battlarts, Dradition, Dragon Gate (DG), Hustle, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Okinawa Pro-Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Noah, Pro Wrestling Zero1 and Union Pro-Wrestling.

The event featured a mixture of wrestlers from different independent promotions facing each other in a total of nine matches. The main event was a six-man tag team match between the teams of Mammoth Sasaki (Apache), Yoshihito Sasaki (freelancer) and Shuji Ishikawa (Union), and Kengo Mashimo (K-Dojo), Daisuke Sekimoto (BJW) and Atsushi Aoki (Noah).

Background
Following the success of the 2006 Indy Summit, Taka Michinoku, who was in charge of the event, created the Pro-Wrestling Summit Committee to hold more joint shows. Summits were held in Osaka, Ariake and eventually at Korakuen Hall on New Year's Eve, thus continuing the tradition of the December 31 Korakuen Hall Show. The event was broadcast on Samurai! TV and Gaora.

Storylines
The 2008 Pro-Wrestling Summit featured nine professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.