NJPW Roster in 1985: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions
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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1985NJPW: All (45)
Abdullah the Butcher
Adrian Adonis
Akira Nogami
André the Giant
Antonio Inoki
Bad News Allen
The Barbarian
Black Cat
Black Tiger
Bruiser Brody
The Cobra
Dick Murdoch
Don Arakawa
Dos Caras
Hidekazu Tanaka
Hiro Saito
Hulk Hogan
Jimmy Snuka
Kantaro Hoshino
Keiichi Yamada
Keiji Muto
Kengo Kimura
Kerry von Erich
Kevin von Erich
King Kong Bundy
Konga The Barbarian
KY Wakamatsu
Masaharu Funaki
Masahiro Chono
The Masked Superstar
Matt Borne
Mr. Pogo
Naoki Sano
Pedro Morales
Rambo Sakurada
Samu
Seiji Sakaguchi
Shinya Hashimoto
Shiro Koshinaka
Shunji Takano
Super Strong Machine
Tatsumi Fujinami
Tatsutoshi Goto
Tiger Chung Lee
Umanosuke Ueda
Heavyweight
Abdullah the Butcher
Adrian Adonis
André the Giant
Antonio Inoki
Bad News Allen
The Barbarian
Bruiser Brody
Dick Murdoch
Don Arakawa
Hulk Hogan
Jimmy Snuka
Kengo Kimura
Kerry von Erich
Kevin von Erich
King Kong Bundy
Konga The Barbarian
KY Wakamatsu
The Masked Superstar
Matt Borne
Mr. Pogo
Pedro Morales
Rambo Sakurada
Samu
Seiji Sakaguchi
Shunji Takano
Super Strong Machine
Tatsumi Fujinami
Tiger Chung Lee
Umanosuke Ueda
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
King Kong Bundy & The Masked Superstar
The North-South Connection
The Von Erichs
Champions
IWGP Championship | | Antonio Inoki
| 565+
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WWF International Tag Team Championship | | Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami
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
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IWGP Tag Team Championship | | Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami
Defeated Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi in a tournament final to become the first champions. | 19+
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WWF Junior Heavyweight Championship | | The Cobra
| 95
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| Hiro Saito
| 69
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| The Cobra
Defeated Black Tiger to win the vacant title. | 143
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NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship | Denny Brown
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
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 | Vacant
The title was vacated after NJPW, the promotion which The Cobra performed for, pulled out of NWA. | 0
| |
| The Cobra
| 4
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| Hiro Saito
| 0
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| The Cobra
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
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