New Japan Pro Wrestling roster

Contents 1 Roster 1.1 Heavyweight wrestlers 1.2 Junior Heavyweight wrestlers 1.3 Stables and tag teams 1.4 Announcers 1.5 Doctor 1.6 Referees 1.7 Trainer 2 Former wrestlers 2.1 Native 2.2 Outside wrestlers 3 References

This is a list of professional wrestlers who currently wrestle for New Japan Pro Wrestling, as well as a list of notable alumni. The list also contains foreigners.^[1]

Roster

Heavyweight wrestlers

• Karl Anderson (Chad Allegra)
• Lance Archer (Lance Hoyt)
• Giant Bernard (Matthew Bloom)
• Hirooki Goto
• Tomoaki Honma
• Takashi Iizuka (Takayuki Iizuka)
• Wataru Inoue
• Tomohiro Ishii
• King Fale (Simi Taitoko Fale)
• Satoshi Kojima
• Togi Makabe (Shinya Makabe)
• Kyōsuke Mikami
• MVP (Hassan Assad)
• Yuji Nagata
• Tetsuya Naitō
• Shinsuke Nakamura
• Manabu Nakanishi
• Kazuchika Okada
• Hideo Saito (Mitsuhide Hirasawa)
• Super Strong Machine (Junji Hirata)
• Minoru Suzuki
• Yujiro Takahashi
• Hiroshi Tanahashi
• Masato Tanaka
• Hiroyoshi Tenzan (Hiroyoshi Yamamoto)
• Tama Tonga (Alipate Fifita)
• Takaaki Watanabe
• Toru Yano
• YOSHI-HASHI (Nobuo Yoshihashi)

Junior Heavyweight wrestlers

• Prince Devitt (Fergal Devitt)
• Gedo (Keiji Takayama)
• Jado (Shoji Akiyoshi)
• Kota Ibushi
• Koji Kanemoto
• KUSHIDA (Yujiro Kushida)
• Jushin "Thunder" Liger (Keiichi Yamada)
• TAKA Michinoku (Takao Yoshida)
• Katsuhiko Nagata
• Davey Richards (Wesley Richards)
• Rocky Romero (John Rivera)
• Ryusuke Taguchi
• Taichi (Maki Taichiro)
• Hiromu Takahashi
• Tiger Mask (Yoshihiro Yamazaki)

Stables and tag teams

• Apollo 55 – (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi)
• Bad Intentions – (Karl Anderson and The Giant Bernard)
• Blue Justice Army – (King Fale, Wataru Inoue, Yuji Nagata and Super Strong Machine)
• CHAOS – (Gedo, Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii, Jado, Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka, Yujiro Takahashi, Toru Yano and YOSHI-HASHI)
• Great Bash Heel – (Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma)
• No Remorse Corps – (Davey Richards and Rocky Romero)
• Suzuki Army – (Lance Archer, Minoru Suzuki, Taichi and TAKA Michinoku)

Announcers

• Milano Collection A.T. (Akihito Terui)
• Kimihiko Ozaki

Doctor

• Masayuki Hayashi

Referees

• Marty Asami
• Red Shoes Unno
• Tiger Hattori

Trainer

• Takeshi Misawa

Former wrestlers

Native

• Akebono (Akebono Tarō)
• AKIRA (Akira Nogami)
• Akiya Anzawa
• Masahiro Chono
• Riki Chōshū (Mitsuo Yoshida)
• Super Delfin (Hiroto Wakita)
• Último Dragón (Yoshihiro Asai)
• Tatsumi Fujinami
• Kazuyuki Fujita
• Yoshiaki Fujiwara
• Masakatsu Funaki
• Tatsutoshi Goto
• Taiji Ishimori
• Hiroshi Hase
• Shinya Hashimoto
• Antonio Inoki
• Kendo Ka Shin (Tokimitsu Ishizawa)
• Masahito Kakihara
• W*ING Kanemura (Yukihiro Kanemura)
• Toshiaki Kawada
• Kenta Kobashi
• Osamu Kido
• Kengo Kimura (Seiei Kimura)
• Shiro Koshinaka
• Shunji Kosugi
• Akira Maeda
• Mitsuharu Misawa
• Keiji Mutoh
• Mitsuya Nagai
• Hiroshi Nagao
• Masayuki Naruse
• Osamu Nishimura
• Michiyoshi Ohara
• Okumura (Shigeo Okumura)
• Shinjiro Otani
• Akitoshi Saito
• Hiro Saito
• Masa Saito
• Seiji Sakaguchi
• Naoki Sano
• Kensuke Sasaki
• Great Sasuke (Masanori Murakawa)
• Katsuyori Shibata
• Kenzo Suzuki
• Nobuhiko Takada
• Yoshihiro Takayama
• Katsushi Takemura
• Minoru Tanaka
• Genichiro Tenryu
• Takashi Uwano
• Kazuo Yamazaki
• Ryushi Yanagisawa
• Tadao Yasuda
• Yoshiaki Yatsu

Outside wrestlers

• Abdullah The Butcher (Lawrence Shreeve)
• American Dragon (Bryan Danielson)
• Arn Anderson (Martin Lunde)
• Atsushi Aoki
• Averno (Renato Ruíz)
• Sangre Azteca
• Steve Austin (Steven Williams)
• Bob Backlund
• Chris Sabin
• Alex Shelley
• The Barbarian (Sione Vailahi)
• Bam Bam Bigelow (Scott Bigelow)
• Black Tiger (Mark Rocco)
• Black Tiger II (Eddie Guerrero)
• Black Tiger III (César González)
• Black Tiger IV (John Rivera)
• Blue Wolf (Dolgorsürengiin Serjbüdee)
• Bruiser Brody (Frank Goodish)
• Chyna (Joanie Laurer)
• Consequences Creed (Austin Watson)
• Dr. Wagner, Jr. (Juan González)
• Ric Flair (Richard Fliehr)
• Rick Fuller
• Héctor Garza (Héctor Solano)
• André the Giant (André Roussimoff)
• Karl Gotch (Karl Istaz)
• Tony Halme
• Stan Hansen (John Hansen, Jr.)
• Jeff Hardy
• Bret Hart
• Owen Hart
• Salman Hashimikov
• Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea)
• Brian Kendrick
• Super Liger (Chris Irvine)
• Low Ki (Brandon Silvestry)
• Dynamite Kid (Thomas Billington)
• Brock Lesnar
• Christopher Daniels / Curry Man (Daniel Covell)
• Dean Malenko (Dean Simon)
• Naomichi Marufuji
• Máscara Dorada
• Mephisto
• Místico (Luis Urive)
• Dick Murdoch
• Jim Neidhart
• Scott Norton
• NOSAWA Rongai (Kazushige Nosawa)
• Kenny Omega (Tyson Smith)
• Pegasus Kid / Wild Pegasus (Chris Benoit)
• Daniel Puder
• Jimmy Rave (James Guffey)
• Billy Robinson
• Robert Roode
• Rick Rude (Richard Rood)
• Sabu (Terry Brunk)
• El Samurai (Osamu Matsuda)
• Giant Singh (Dalip Singh)
• Giant Silva (Paulo César da Silva)
• La Sombra
• James Storm (James Cox)
• Tiger Jeet Singh (Jagjit Singh)
• Davey Boy Smith (David Smith)
• Rick Steiner (Robert Rechsteiner)
• Scott Steiner (Scott Rechsteiner)
• Sting (Steve Borden)
• Strong Man (Jon Andersen)
• TAJIRI (Yoshihiro Tajiri)
• Takao Omori
• Terry Taylor (Paul Taylor III)
• Travis Tomko
• Último Guerrero
• Rob Van Dam (Robert Szatkowski)
• Big Van Vader (Leon White)
• Road Warrior Animal (Joseph Laurinaitis)
• Road Warrior Hawk (Michael Hegstrand)
• Barry Windham

References

New Japan Pro Wrestling Championships Active IWGP Heavyweight (reigns) · IWGP Junior Heavyweight (reigns) · IWGP Tag Team (reigns) · IWGP Junior Tag Team (reigns) · IWGP Intercontinental (reigns) Inactive IWGP U-30 (reigns) · NWA International Junior Heavyweight (reigns) · NWA World Junior Heavyweight (reigns) · NWF Heavyweight (reigns) · NWF North American Heavyweight (reigns) · NWA North American Tag Team (reigns) · UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight (reigns) · WWF International Heavyweight (reigns) · WWF International Tag Team (reigns) · WWF Junior Heavyweight (reigns) · WWF World Martial Arts Heavyweight (reigns) Tournaments Best of the Super Juniors · G1 Climax · G1 Climax Tag League · New Japan Cup · Super J Cup · Young Lion Cup Miscellaneous History · International Wrestling Grand Prix (IWGP) · Roster · Alumni