NJPW Roster in 1998: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

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On this page you find the full NJPW Roster in the year 1998. This includes the list of all NJPW Wrestlers from Heavyweight, Junior Heavyweight and Young Lions, division between Men and Women Rosters, 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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The profile of each NJPW wrestler features their Career History, Ring Names, Face / Heel Turns, Accomplishments, Pictures, Bio and more information and statistics.

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Draysin Martin · 1 hours ago
there is no way the bloodline are not faces after tonight.
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Jackson Conley · 1 hours ago
What a match.
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Wright · 4 hours ago
Big Cass could be Low Card.
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  MrAicrow · 3 hours ago
  
  @Wright So that signing was pointless, At least Corbin did something
  
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  Wright · 2 hours ago
  
  @MrAicrow Unfortunately, that seems to be the case. Unless he wins more often, or has promo time.
  
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Keith Meyer · 23 hours ago
Nattie/ Natalya should not be in NXT anymore. That was only a feud with jayda Parker jayda's now on the main roster I think she's just inactive in WWE in all
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Draysin Martin · 1 days ago
The Usos & Jacob Fatu are face feuding with 946, Roman Reigns is tweener as he might get involved soon.
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 1 days ago
Rusev had a match at the live events in hawaii so hes inactive
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MrAicrow · 1 days ago
Hangman and Brodido are the new AEW World Trios Champions
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Roy · 1 days ago
you know first of all, ilja debuting to aew was quite fascinating, second of all, seeing the miz get pushed to the low card hurts man.
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  MrAicrow · 1 days ago
  
  @Roy I just hope they use Ilja well, That AEW roster is way too bloated, He might get lost in the shuffle
  
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Ryan · 1 days ago
Ijla is ALL ELITE
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Tyler Andreasen · 2 days ago
SmackDown Hotel, can you please do a favor and update Megan Bayne's photo in the AEW roster? Because it's shown that she has black hair and that's not what she looks like now. She currently has blonde hair.
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Keith Meyer · 3 days ago
Kendall grey got cleared on NXT so she should probably go back to upper card
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 4 days ago
Zach Gowen has retired
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 5 days ago
Id add Adam Copeland, Konosuke Takeshita, Ricochet, and Darby Allin in the aew upper card for being in the clockwork carnage match
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MrAicrow · 5 days ago
Also, I have some ideas for the 5th man of the 946 War Games team

1. LA Knight, Feel like he hates Roman enough, And maybe a LA Knight heel turn would finally give him a title, IDK
2. Drew McIntyre, HATES the bloodline, It think Drew would 100% join just to hurt Roman
3. Montez Ford or Angelo Dawkins, Neither man is doing anything, Maybe one of them is a mystery 6th Member of 946?
4. Jacob Fatu, Would WWE be dumb enough to pull a swerve like this, At this point maybe, Feels like Vince Russo is booking more and more.....
5. Anthony Bowens (Or whatever they'll call him in WWE) He's a free agent, WWE bringing in someone like him would be interesting
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MrAicrow · 5 days ago
WWE going through with Crown Jewel is like Archduke Franz Ferdinand going to visit the wounded at the hospital rather than leaving after getting Car bombed, Which led to him being, You know.... ASSASINATED!!!
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Firstname Lastname · 5 days ago
Kit Wilson being listed as a midcarder despite being a massive jobber makes no sense. Guy only ever wins matches on Main Event. Most of the guys on the Low Card list win more regularly than he does.
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  @Firstname Lastname Fixed, that makes a lot of sense
  
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Roy · 5 days ago
i just feel WrenQCC is ending the alliance soon, this just might be Kendal Grey’s heel turn.
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Davey Castegnaro · 5 days ago
These people need profiles.
WWE ID: Conan Lycan, Josiah Jean, Richard Adonis, and Monica Monroe (ID Women's Champion)

WWE Performance Center: Cara Brown, Ana da Silva, Jackson Goonrey, & Tyran Tuckey
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Constance Affinito · 5 days ago
If any are available, there should be new renders of the members of 946
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Lensky · 6 days ago
WWE is still going through with Crown Jewel, even though Riyadh literally got missile-attacked, to think this company couldn't get any more stupid
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IWGP Heavyweight Championship	Scott Norton Won: September 23, 1998 Yokohama, Japan \| NJPW G1 Climax Special 1998 - Big Wednesday Defeated Yuji Nagata to win the vacant title.	99+ days
	Vacant Won: September 21, 1998 The title was vacated due to Chono's neck injury.	2 days
	Masahiro Chono Won: August 8, 1998 Osaka, Japan \| NJPW Rising the Next Generations in Osaka Dome	44 days
	Tatsumi Fujinami Won: April 4, 1998 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Antonio Inoki Retirement Show	126 days
	Kensuke Sasaki Won: August 31, 1997 Yokohama, Japan \| NJPW Final Power Hall in Yokohama	216 days

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship		Jushin "Thunder" Liger Won: February 7, 1998 Sapporo, Japan \| NJPW Fighting Spirit 1998	327+ days
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship		Shinjiro Otani Won: August 10, 1997 Nagoya, Japan \| NJPW The Four Heaven in Nagoya Dome On November 5, 1997, Otani vacated all J-Crown belts but the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, effectively ending the J-Crown.	181 days

IWGP Tag Team Championship	Genichiro Tenryu & Shiro Koshinaka Won: July 15, 1998 Sapporo, Japan \| NJPW Summer Struggle 1998	169+ days
	Cho-TenHiroyoshi Tenzan & Masahiro Chono Won: June 5, 1998 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Best of the Super Jr. V Finals Defeated Genichiro Tenryu & Shiro Koshinaka in a tournament final to win the vacant title.	40 days
	Vacant Won: May 7, 1998 The title was vacated due to Mutoh having surgery on his knee.	29 days
	nWo JapanThe Great Muta & Masahiro Chono Won: October 19, 1997 Kobe, Japan \| NJPW nWo Typhoon 1997	200 days

NJPW Roster in 1998: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

NJPW: All (51)

Heavyweight

Junior Heavyweight

Young Lions

Teams

Bull Powers

Heisei Ishingun

Hiro Saito & Tatsutoshi Goto

Junji Hirata & Shinya Hashimoto

Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai

Kazuo Yamazaki & Takashi Iizuka

Kensuke Sasaki & Kazuo Yamazaki

Masahiro Chono & Keiji Muto

nWo Hollywood

nWo Japan

Riki Choshu & Kensuke Sasaki

Shinjiro Otani & Koji Kanemoto

Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa

Team Wolf

Tencozy / Ten-Koji

Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi

Yuji Nagata & Takashi Iizuka

Champions

IWGP Heavyweight Championship

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship

IWGP Tag Team Championship

Genichiro Tenryu & Shiro Koshinaka

Cho-TenHiroyoshi Tenzan & Masahiro Chono

nWo JapanThe Great Muta & Masahiro Chono

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship

Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa

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