NJPW Roster in 2001: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

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On this page you find the full NJPW Roster in the year 2001. 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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Noah Williams · 5 hours ago
Kelani Jordan is the New TNA knockouts champion
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Bee · 15 hours ago
los titanes del aire (hologram & komander) are back together
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Giosiu35 · 17 hours ago
Thank god Kane is back a the ambassadors list, can you add Ron Simmons to the list? He’s been signed to wwe under the legends program since 2003 it says on Wikipedia
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Wright Hill · 1 days ago
I think it is safe to say that Braun Strowman is a WWE Ambassador due to him having partnered up with them to make his show.

Can't get footage without permish.
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Wright Hill · 1 days ago
The Great Khali, Kane, and Ron Simmons are ALL WWE Ambassadors.
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  Giosiu35 · 17 hours ago
  
  @Wright Hill Great Khali is not signed to wwe
  
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  Draysin Martin · 13 hours ago
  
  @Giosiu35 If he isn't how would he have made it into WWE2k25?
  
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Constance Affinito · 1 days ago
Jazmyn Nyx got released
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Micah K · 2 days ago
Jasper Troy should be mid card, Logan Paul should be inactive, Grayson Waller should be mid card, DIY are no longer in NXT as that was for a few weeks, the Wyatt’s should be heels, AJ styles should be upper card as he will have a match with Cena at crown jewel, Jacob Fatu should be inactive since wwe isn’t using him, and motor city machine guns well they haven’t wrestled since last month either inactive or they remain on the mid card scene as if now, but take your time don’t rush on these
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  Draysin Martin · 13 hours ago
  
  @Micah K What were you saying about Jacob fatu?
  
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Giosiu35 · 2 days ago
Can you add Ron Simmons on the ambassadors list, he has been signed to wwe under the legends program since 2003, it says on ai overview
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Constance Affinito · 2 days ago
For the love of god, Roman Reigns has been Raw since like June 😂
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Draysin Martin · 3 days ago
Jazmin Nyx was kicked out of Fatal Influence Earlier tonight
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Bee · 3 days ago
it's also probably safe to assume big bill and bryan keith are no longer aligned with chris jericho and the learning tree
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Bee · 4 days ago
fuego del sol has been unmasked for some time now, his name is now kj orso.
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Dyenemo · 4 days ago
After new monday night raw segment :
- Jimmy Uso ( from Smackdown to RAW )
- Jey Uso, 100% tweener
- Asuka 100% heel with Kairi Sane after attacking betray Io
- Rusev is tweener, his feud kinda confusing ( feud to face Sheamus and feud to heel Dom )
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  Wright Hill · 3 days ago
  
  @Dyenemo Bayley is def a tweener
  
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  Draysin Martin · 3 days ago
  
  @Dyenemo I agree with everything but Kairi Asuka Forced kairi to attack Rhea & Iyo so therefore kairi is Tweener
  
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  GaymerGeek316 · 2 days ago
  
  @Dyenemo Jimmy Uso's WWE profile page still lists him as Smackdown, so it should remain that way on here until there is official confirmation from WWE
  
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Wright Hill · 4 days ago
Glenn Jacobs (Kane) has always been a WWE Ambassador since 2021. Hell, He has been signed to WWE since 1995! Please just don't take the Google AI overview as gospel, lol.

But yes, please put Kane back as a WWE Ambassador.
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smah · 4 days ago
asuka is definitively a heel now. probably upper card too if that's where rhea and iyo are, since that's the program. it's non-title but it main evented a show.
kairi is now tweener, she is conflicted about her actions and is presented as a more morally gray character. upper card as well.
pete dunne and tyler bate are not inactive, they're with kaiser in his el grande americano stable. not faces, either tweeners or heels.
shinsuke is not inactive and has been in the background of backstage segments on smackdown the last couple of weeks, stalking sami zayn.
feel like they kinda teased a finn face turn tonight? not fully yet but something to keep an eye on.
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Jackson Conley · 4 days ago
Asuka Def a Heel!
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Buttered Cheese · 4 days ago
Asuka fr a heel again, but the way kairi was portrayed, is she also heel or is she tweener because of the fear factor of it all?
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smah · 4 days ago
shinsuke is not inactive. he's been in the background of some backstage segments on smackdown recently. he's coming for sami in the US open challenge soon.
i posted this a day or two ago with a twitter link to pics as proof but it didn't get approved. but it was in the segments where sami is speaking to rey fenix and carmelo before their matches, if you look there you'll see him.
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Constance Affinito · 4 days ago
Jey Uso got a concussion
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Carter Berndt · 5 days ago
El Grande Americano (Ludwig Kaiser) is the Speed Champion, not Chad Gable
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  Draysin Martin · 5 days ago
  
  @Carter Berndt Chad Gable was the original El grande Americano which means he won the title besides when have we ever seen Ludwig Kaiser who Is the current On Screen Americano defend it?
  
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  Wright Hill · 5 days ago
  
  @Carter Berndt I already mentioned this. It's best we wait until Americano appears WITH the title.
  
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IWGP Heavyweight Championship	Kazuyuki Fujita Won: April 9, 2001 Osaka, Japan \| NJPW Strong Style 2001 266+ days	266+ days
	Scott Norton Won: March 17, 2001 Nagoya, Japan \| NJPW Hyper Battle 2001 23 days	23 days
	Kensuke Sasaki Won: January 4, 2001 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Wrestling World 2001 72 days Defeated Toshiaki Kawada in a tournament final to win the vacant title.	72 days
	Vacant Won: October 9, 2000 87 days The title was vacated after Sasaki lost a non-title match to Toshiaki Kawada at Do Judge!!.	87 days

NJPW Roster in 2001: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

NJPW: All (65)

Heavyweight

Junior Heavyweight

Young Lions

Teams

BATT - Bad Ass Translate Trading

Club 7

Complete Players

Dr. Wagner Jr. & Silver King

G-EGGS

Hiro Saito & Tatsutoshi Goto

Junior Stars

Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai

Keiji Muto & Taiyō Kea

King of the Hills

Manabu Nakanishi & Yutaka Yoshie

Riki Choshu & Kensuke Sasaki

Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa

TEAM2000

Tencozy / Ten-Koji

World Class Tag Team

Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi

Yuji Nagata & Takashi Iizuka

Champions

IWGP Heavyweight Championship

Kazuyuki Fujita

Scott Norton

Kensuke Sasaki

Vacant

IWGP Tag Team Championship

BATTKeiji Muto & Taiyo Kea

Tatsumi Fujinami & Osamu Nishimura

TencozyHiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship

Gedo & Jado

Jushin "Thunder" Liger & El Samurai

Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship

Kendo Kashin

Masayuki Naruse

Minoru Tanaka

Extras

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Commentators

Ring Announcer

President

Chairman

Promoters

Referees

Producers

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