NJPW Roster in 2005: 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 2005. 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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Roy · 19 minutes ago
bronson reed suffered a rib and lung injury if im not wrong.
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Constance Affinito · 1 hours ago
Bronson Reed is injured again. Injured at Crown Jewel
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Yansy Martínez · 1 hours ago
They should add Big Mami to the AAA roster so the AAA roster can be completed
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Roy · 9 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 · 13 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 · 17 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 · 22 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 · 3 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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IWGP Heavyweight Championship	Brock Lesnar Won: October 8, 2005 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Toukon Souzou New Chapter	84+ days
	Kazuyuki Fujita Won: July 18, 2005 Sapporo, Japan \| NJPW Summer Fight Series 2005	82 days
	Hiroyoshi Tenzan Won: May 14, 2005 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Nexess VI	65 days
	Satoshi Kojima Won: February 20, 2005 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW New Year Gold Series 2005	83 days
	Hiroyoshi Tenzan Won: December 12, 2004 Nagoya, Japan \| NJPW Battle Final 2004	70 days

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship	Black Tiger (IV) Won: October 8, 2005 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Toukon Souzou New Chapter	84+ days
	Tiger Mask (IV) Won: January 4, 2005 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Toukon Festival - Wrestling World 2005	277 days
	Minoru Won: December 14, 2003 Nagoya, Japan \| NJPW Battle Final 2003 Previously known as Minoru Tanaka.	387 days

IWGP Tag Team Championship		Cho-TenHiroyoshi Tenzan & Masahiro Chono Won: October 30, 2005 Kobe, Japan \| NJPW Toukon Series 2005 During this reign Tenzan & Chono showed signs of inactivity, so an interim tag team title was created and Togi Makabe & Shiro Koshinaka won it at Circuit 2006 Turbulence. Then Manabu Nakanishi & Takao Ōmori defeat them to win the interim title.	62+ days
IWGP Tag Team Championship		Hiroshi Tanahashi & Shinsuke Nakamura Won: December 11, 2004 Osaka, Japan \| NJPW Battle Final 2004 Defeated Kensuke Sasaki & Minoru Suzuki to win the vacant title.	323 days

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship	Hirooki Goto & Minoru Won: May 14, 2005 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Nexess VI	231+ days
	Wataru Inoue & Koji Kanemoto Won: March 4, 2005 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Big Fight Series 2005	71 days
	Gedo & Jado Won: June 5, 2004 Osaka, Japan \| NJPW Best of the Super Jr. XI Finals	272 days

IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship	Hiroshi Tanahashi Won: June 18, 2005 Kyoto, Japan \| NJPW Best of the Super Jr. XII Finals Defeated Toru Yano in a tournament final for the vacant title.	196+ days
	Vacant Won: May 1, 2005 Nakamura vacated the title by company request due to not defending it.	48 days
	Shinsuke Nakamura Won: January 4, 2005 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Toukon Festival - Wrestling World 2005	117 days
	Hiroshi Tanahashi Won: April 23, 2003 Hiroshima, Japan \| NJPW Strong Energy 2003 Defeated Shinya Makabe in G2 U-30 Climax tournament finals to become the inaugural champion. The title wa exclusive to under-30 wrestlers.	622 days

NJPW Roster in 2005: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

NJPW: All (57)

Heavyweight

Junior Heavyweight

Young Lions

Teams

Black New Japan

C.T.U

C.T.U.

Cho-Ten

Hiro Saito & Tatsutoshi Goto

Hiroshi Tanahashi & Koji Kanemoto

Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yutaka Yoshie

Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai

Kensuke Family

Koji Kanemoto & Wataru Inoue

La Ola Amarilla

Most Violent Players

Team JAPAN

World Class Tag Team

Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi

Yuji Nagata & Takashi Iizuka

Champions

IWGP Heavyweight Championship

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship

IWGP Tag Team Championship

Cho-TenHiroyoshi Tenzan & Masahiro Chono

Hiroshi Tanahashi & Shinsuke Nakamura

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship

Hirooki Goto & Minoru

Wataru Inoue & Koji Kanemoto

Gedo & Jado

IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship

Extras

Commentators

Ring Announcer

President

CEO - Chief Executive Officers

Promoters

Director of Operations

Referees

Producers

Coaches

Ambassadors