NJPW Roster in 1976: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions
On this page you find the full NJPW Roster in the year 1976. This includes the list of all NJPW Wrestlers from Heavyweight, Junior Heavyweight and Young Lions, active Tag Teams & Stables, the current reigning Champions, as well as Managers, Announcers, Authority figures, Producers and other personalities in New Japan Pro Wrestling.
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1976NJPW: All (29)
Heavyweight
Junior Heavyweight
Young Lions
Teams
Golden Combi
Power Fighters
Superstar Billy Graham & Ivan Koloff
Champions
Asia Heavyweight Championship | | Tiger Jeet Singh
Defeated Seiji Sakaguchi in Asia Heavyweight League finals to become the inaugural champion. | 155+
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NWF Heavyweight Championship | | Antonio Inoki
Ordered by the NWA to stop referring to belt as a world title at annual NWA meeting on August 7, 1976. | 554+
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Asia Tag Team Championship | | Strong Kobayashi & Seiji Sakaguchi
Defeated Tiger Jeet & Gama Singh in Asia Tag Team League finals to become the inaugural champions. | 88+
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NWA North American Tag Team Championship | | Seiji Sakaguchi & Strong KobayashiSeiji Sakaguchi & Strong Kobayashi
Defeated Tiger Jeet Singh and Voodoo Mulumba in a tournament final to win the vacant championship. | 330+
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 | Vacant
The championship was vacated after Antonio Inoki chose to focus on martial arts competition. | 35
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| Antonio Inoki & Seiji SakaguchiAntonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi
| 91
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Extras
President
Promoters
Producers
Coach
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