NJPW Roster in 1985: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

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On this page you find the full NJPW Roster in the year 1985. 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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1985

NJPW: All (46)

Heavyweight

Junior Heavyweight

Young Lions

Teams

Champions

IWGP Championship

Antonio Inoki

Won: June 14, 1984 Tokyo, Japan | NJPW IWGP League '84 Finals

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days

WWF International Tag Team Championship

Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami

Won: May 24, 1985 Kobe, Japan | IWGP & WWF Championship Series

Defeated Dick Murdoch & Adrian Adonis in a tournament final for the title, that was revived as WWF International Tag Team Championship for a partnership between WWF and NJPW.

160

days

IWGP Tag Team Championship

Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami

Won: December 12, 1985 Sendai, Japan | NJPW IWGP Tag Team League '85 Finals

Defeated Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi in a tournament final to become the first champions.

19+

days

WWF Junior Heavyweight Championship	The Cobra Won: July 28, 1985 Osaka, Japan \| NJPW Burning Spirit in Summer (1985)	95 days
	Hiro Saito Won: May 20, 1985 Hiroshima, Japan \| IWGP & WWF Championship Series	69 days
	The Cobra Won: December 28, 1984 New York City, New York \| WWF on MSG Network Defeated Black Tiger to win the vacant title.	143 days

NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship	Denny Brown Won: August 1, 1985 Brown previously unofficialy won a disputed version of the title at Starrcade '84. He received official recognition as champion by NWA vice president Shohei Baba, promoter of AJPW, on August 1 after NJPW, which had controlled the title since 1982, withdrew from NWA.	14 days
	Vacant Won: August 1, 1985 The title was vacated after NJPW, the promotion which The Cobra performed for, pulled out of NWA.	0 days
	The Cobra Won: July 28, 1985 Osaka, Japan \| NJPW Burning Spirit in Summer (1985)	4 days
	Hiro Saito Won: July 28, 1985 Osaka, Japan \| NJPW Burning Spirit in Summer (1985)	0 days
	The Cobra Won: November 3, 1983 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Toukon Series 1983 Defeated Davey Boy Smith to win the vacant title. During this reign, Les Thornton was recognized by some promoters in the USA as champion due to The Cobra working for WWF. On 1943-11-14, GCW announced that Les Thornton won a fictitious tournament to become champion (unofficial). Then, on 1984-06-02, American promoters vacated their version of the title after Les Thornton joined WWF; Thornton continued to bill himself as champion, defending the title on WWF events as the "WWF Lt. Hvywt Championship". Then, on 1984-07-13, JCP announced that Hector Guerrero won a fictitious tournament to become champion (unofficial). Then, on 1984-10-02, Mike Davis defeated Guerrero to win this unofficial version of the title; then, on 1984-11-22, Denny Brown defeated Davis to win this unofficial version of the title.	633 days

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Jey zeen · 8 hours ago
Fabian Aichner is TNA
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  smah · 1 hours ago
  
  @Jey zeen happy to see him back, a great pick up for TNA
  
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Emmanuel · 16 hours ago
Hi, my name is Eliezer Mbuku and can you make more new updated render photos of May 2026 for WWE Raw, SmackDown, NXT, Evolve and LFG rosters please!!!!
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Wright · 20 hours ago
Let's appreciate the SDH team for continuing their hard work on making this website better and moving forward. 🎉
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Joshua Araujo

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I updated a bunch of images on the WWE roster page! I bet the improvements will be immediately noticeable

I also want to add that in the background, I’ve been updating card positions/images for a lot of our older profiles. For an extended list of who I did:
- All 4 members of the Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly, Bobby Fish, Roderick Strong)
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- The Fabulous Moolah
- Trevor Murdoch & Lance Cade
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- Keith Lee!!!

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Andy

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We now have enabled the Card Positions feature for AEW Roster as well! Let us know if anything needs to be improved.
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  DANNY H · 1 days ago
  
  @Andy Thank you, I've been wanting this for ages!
  
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  Reese Wasil · 13 hours ago
  
  @Andy Could u do that for every company like tna, roh, and aaa?
  
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  smah · 1 hours ago
  
  @Andy thanks for doing that, i was hoping for this one day, it looks great and the positions are pretty accurate too i’d say
  only issue i’ll raise is kris stat in upper card, imo it should either just be thekla alone cause there’s not really one designated woman she’s feuding with, or stat/shida/jamie all upper card because they’re all in the title match at the ppv
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Abram Pena · 1 days ago
Why is Nattie still a mid-card she hasn’t showed up on Raw in the past 2 months.
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Texas Steve · 1 days ago
Max Abrams group is called The Mog Squad on Evolve
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Jey zeen · 1 days ago
Reaffirming that Stephanie Vaquer is genuinely injured and not kayfabe injured inactive
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Anthony Campos · 1 days ago
New Renders!
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Anthony Campos · 1 days ago
Romans Render Looks A Little Funny
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Micah K · 1 days ago
All of darskstate should be tweaners *acted less heelish when tensions arrived
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Micah K · 1 days ago
Royce keys has a new photo, Tony d Angelo is a face
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Axiom1954 · 2 days ago
Checked my birthday comments on the on this day page to see that someone has downvoted birthdays? Do you hate undertaker, Sting and AJ Lee that much?
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  MrAicrow · 18 hours ago
  
  @Axiom1954 People are quite sad on this site, They just downvote everything for some reason
  
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Wright · 2 days ago
Becky Lynch, Roman Reigns and Sheamus are in need of higher quality renders. Romans' in particular bothers me.
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  Abram Pena · 2 days ago
  
  @Wright I agree because they are definitely out of date especially Roman Reigns but I do disagree about Becky lynch because I think it’s good for now.
  
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Lensky · 2 days ago
Maxxine Dupri was spotted in the passenger seat as the Vision were entering their car. We might finally see a new edition to the currently all-male faction
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Reese Wasil · 2 days ago
Can we put Kam Hendrix in the Upper Card since he attacked Tony D'Angelo
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Davey Castegnaro · 2 days ago
I feel like both AEW/ROH, and WWE/AAA should both be linked together as rosters. Like AAA should be a roster on the WWE page, and ROH should be a roster on the AEW page.
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  Jey zeen · 2 days ago
  
  @Davey Castegnaro I respectfully disagree ROH and AAA are still considered separate promotions rather than brands with different rosters and ecosystems despite being owned by bigger promotions
  
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  smah · 2 days ago
  
  @Davey Castegnaro i wouldn't be against this for ROH/AEW because there is much less of a divide between those rosters but would disagree with AAA/WWE where they mostly remain distinct outside of a few wrestlers.
  
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Nathan Marcy · 3 days ago
YKW We ain't cool anymore Jacob attacking your Cousin because he beat you at Backlash The Usos learned that lesson not to challenge Roman Reigns and your not listening at this point join back up with Solo you two are rebels anyway
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  @Nathan Marcy who is bro talking to?
  
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DANNY H · 3 days ago
Becky Lynch's render looks quite wierd, could you guys please use the one on WWE.com?
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Central · 3 days ago
I think Randy is inactive...although maybe it's too early to tell. Also, I believe Asuka is a babyface now
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NJPW Roster in 1985: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

NJPW: All (46)

Heavyweight

Junior Heavyweight

Young Lions

Teams

Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami

The Cosmic Cowboys

Golden Combi

Jimmy Snuka & Bruiser Brody

Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami

Kerry von Erich & Bruiser Brody

The North-South Connection

The Von Erichs

Champions

IWGP Championship

Antonio Inoki

WWF International Tag Team Championship

Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami

IWGP Tag Team Championship

Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami

WWF Junior Heavyweight Championship

The Cobra

Hiro Saito

The Cobra

NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship

Denny Brown

Vacant

The Cobra

Hiro Saito

The Cobra

Extras

Part Time Wrestler

Manager

Ring Announcer

President

Promoter

Referees

Ambassadors