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

New Japan Pro Wrestling: Rosters History Database

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.

Our complete Pro Wrestlers Database allows you to travel through time and see the NJPW Roster by Year or any specific Date in history. Simply use the filters below! You even have the option to view a breakdown of the rosters split by Face and Heel divisions.

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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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Constance Affinito · 15 minutes ago
Bronson Reed is injured again. Injured at Crown Jewel
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Yansy Martínez · 54 minutes ago
They should add Big Mami to the AAA roster so the AAA roster can be completed
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Roy · 8 hours ago
kiana james might as well be inactive, i havent seen her since her last match against giulia
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 12 hours ago
I'm once again preaching Fred Rosser is removed off the WWE roster here given he was a one time guest coach at the wwe performance center and there was no indication anywhere else saying he signed to wwe not even he himself said anything about being signed only stating being a guest coach
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MrAicrow · 16 hours ago
RIP Jim Herd

That WCW booker who almost made Ric Flair Spartacus and created the Ding Dongs
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Amanda Pax · 1 days ago
Giulia and Sol Ruca or Paige add Wargames 2026
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Roy · 1 days ago
creed brothers leaving is just… not it.
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Alex Garcia · 1 days ago
Is Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee still with LWO or no
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  Wright · 21 hours ago
  
  @Alex Garcia According to the WWE, they are still members.
  
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Vishnoah · 1 days ago
AFter Crown Jewel,
Rey Fenix active on RAW and become top candidate for IC Title
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Jackson Conley · 1 days ago
Jacob is back!!! And the 2 words have been said!!!!! "WAR GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 1 days ago
Donovan Dijak is no longer in MLW anymore and is back to being a free agent
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Nkrst · 2 days ago
Some updates to MLW following Saturday Night SuperFight:
- Tessa Blanchard and Yota Tsuji debuted and won their respective matches.
- The Good Brothers and Austin Aries retained their respective titles.

Also, the roster needs quite a few updates, such as the addition of Zamaya, Diego Hill, Labron Kozone, Jumbo, Brick Savage, Don Gato, and others.

There should also be the addition of CONTRA, led by Josef Samael, and other factions.

Joe Dombrowski should also be added to the commentary team, since Rich Bocchini is currently just an interviewer.

If you could update the roster, that would be awesome. Sorry for the long message!
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 2 days ago
I just want to say AEW on Twitter X made a post wishing Keith Lee a happy birthday so if you want definitive proof other than being listed on the roster page on their website that hes still employed there you go
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 2 days ago
LA Knight is inactive (literally only doing dark matches and house shows)

Stephanie Vaquer is inactive (had a match at a house show on November 5th and 6th in Portland and Bangor Maine she also had a match at the hawaii live tour shows)
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Constance Affinito · 2 days ago
It still shows that Stratton has the briefcase on this roster, but also has the title, so that needs to he fixed.
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Vishnoah · 3 days ago
Tiffy is heel

Btw new team Penta and Jevon
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APLDAGOAT · 3 days ago
Well obviously WWE doesn’t agree with my predictions not one of them except for Chelsea green and even then she didn’t even walk out with the title
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Lensky · 3 days ago
Imma be honest, ive been a wwe only guy for 10-12 years, nowadays i'd watch an aew ple or an episode of dynamite if im bored, but besides that it's been strictly wwe. it's been such a terrible year for wwe(and it's not just me saying it), and it's getting hard to defend them, they do nothing but go backwards. I'll give them until the rumble, but im not liking anything im seeing from them, i'll have to consider a short-term switch to aew if things somehow get worse.
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Roy · 3 days ago
tommaso ciampa is your new national champion
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MrAicrow · 3 days ago
AAA has gone of the rails, My god, It's amazing
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IWGP Heavyweight Championship	Kazuyuki Fujita Won: April 9, 2001 Osaka, Japan \| NJPW Strong Style 2001	266+ days
	Scott Norton Won: March 17, 2001 Nagoya, Japan \| NJPW Hyper Battle 2001	23 days
	Kensuke Sasaki Won: January 4, 2001 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Wrestling World 2001 Defeated Toshiaki Kawada in a tournament final to win the vacant title.	72 days
	Vacant Won: October 9, 2000 The title was vacated after Sasaki lost a non-title match to Toshiaki Kawada at Do Judge!!.	87 days

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship	Kendo Kashin Won: October 8, 2001 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Indicate of Next	84+ days
	Masayuki Naruse Won: July 20, 2001 Sapporo, Japan \| NJPW Dome-Quake	80 days
	Minoru Tanaka Won: October 29, 2000 Kobe, Japan \| NJPW GET A RIGHT!! BLACK VS. G-EGGS	264 days

IWGP Tag Team Championship	BATTKeiji Muto & Taiyo Kea Won: October 28, 2001 Fukuoka, Japan \| NJPW Survival 2001 - Fighting Destination in Fukuoka	64+ days
	Tatsumi Fujinami & Osamu Nishimura Won: September 23, 2001 Osaka, Japan \| NJPW G1 World 2001	35 days
	TencozyHiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima Won: July 20, 2000 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Summer Struggle 2000	430 days

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship	Gedo & Jado Won: July 20, 2001 Sapporo, Japan \| NJPW Dome-Quake	164+ days
	Jushin "Thunder" Liger & El Samurai Won: March 6, 2001 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Hyper Battle 2001	136 days
	Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka Won: June 25, 2000 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Summer Struggle 2000	254 days

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

NJPW: All (68)

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 Junior Heavyweight Championship

Kendo Kashin

Masayuki Naruse

Minoru Tanaka

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

Extras

Part Time Wrestlers

Commentators

Ring Announcer

President

Chairman

Promoters

Referees

Producers

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Ambassador