NJPW Roster in 2022: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions
On this page you find the full NJPW Roster in the year 2022. This includes the list of all NJPW Wrestlers from Heavyweight, Junior Heavyweight, Young Lions, STRONG and TAMASHII, 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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Catch 2 / 2
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CHAOS Ride the Lightning
Christopher Daniels & Yuya Uemura
CMFTR
Dangerous Tekkers
El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
The Factory
Far East Connection
FinJuice
Flying Tiger
FTR / The Revival / The Mechanics
General’s Jewel
The Good Brothers
Great Bash Heel
Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb
Guerrillas of Destiny
House of Black
HOUSE OF TORTURE
Intergalactic Jet Setters
The Jay and Bey Connection
Jon Moxley & Shota Umino
LA Dojo
LiYoh
Los Ingobernables de Japón
Mega Coaches
Motor City Machine Guns
The Natural Classics / The Filip Brothers
O-Khan & Henare
The Rogue Army
Six or Nine
Stray Dog Army
Suzuki-gun
TAKATaichi
Team Filthy
Tencozy / Ten-Koji
Time Machine
TMDK
Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii
United Empire
The VeloCities
VLNCE UNLTD
West Coast Wrecking Crew / One Percent
Wild Hips
World Class Tag Team
Champions
IWGP World Heavyweight Championship![]() | ![]() | Jay White
| 202+
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![]() | Kazuchika Okada
| 159
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![]() | Shingo Takagi
Defeated Kazuchika Okada to win the vacant title. | 211
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Strong Openweight Championship![]() | ![]() | Fred Rosser
| 189+
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![]() | Tom Lawlor
Won the New Japan Cup USA 2021 to become the inaugural champion. | 428
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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship![]() | ![]() | Taiji Ishimori
| 244+
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![]() | El Desperado
| 176
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NEVER Openweight Championship![]() | ![]() | Karl Anderson
| 202+
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![]() | Tama Tonga
| 42
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![]() | EVIL
| 117
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![]() | Tomohiro Ishii
| 52
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IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship![]() | ![]() | Will Ospreay
Defeated SANADA to win the vacant title. | 202+
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![]() | Juice Robinson
| 28
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![]() | Hiroshi Tanahashi
Defeated Tomohiro Ishii to win the vacant title. | 13
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![]() | Vacant
The title was vacated due to SANADA suffering a fractured orbital bone. | 22
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![]() | SANADA
| 49
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![]() | Hiroshi Tanahashi
| 45
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![]() | KENTA
| 60
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IWGP Tag Team Championship![]() | ![]() ![]() | FTRDax Harwood & Cash Wheeler
| 188+
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![]() ![]() | United EmpireJeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan
| 14
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![]() ![]() | General’s JewelBad Luck Fale & Chase Owens
| 42
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![]() ![]() | United EmpireJeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan
| 22
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![]() ![]() | BishamonHirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI
| 95
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![]() ![]() | Dangerous TekkersZack Sabre Jr. & Taichi
| 163
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Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship![]() | ![]() ![]() | Motor City Machine GunsChris Sabin & Alex Shelley
| 64+
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![]() ![]() | Aussie OpenMark Davis & Kyle Fletcher
Defeated Christopher Daniels & Yuya Uemura in a tournament finals to become the inaugural champions. | 76
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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship![]() | ![]() ![]() | Catch 2/2TJP & Francesco Akira
| 194+
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![]() ![]() | Six or NineRyusuke Taguchi & Master Wato
| 121
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![]() ![]() | Flying TigerRobbie Eagles & Tiger Mask (IV)
| 116
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NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship![]() | ![]() ![]() ![]() | House of TortureEVIL, Yujiro Takahashi & SHO
| 99+
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![]() ![]() ![]() | CHAOSHirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & YOH
| 80
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![]() ![]() ![]() | House of TortureEVIL, Yujiro Takahashi & SHO
| 241
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IWGP Women's Championship![]() | ![]() | KAIRI
Defeated Mayu Iwatani in a tournament finals to become the inaugural champion. | 41+
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KOPW Championship![]() | ![]() | Shingo Takagi
Minoru Suzuki defeated Chase Owens, Cima and Toru Yano in a 4-way match at Wrestle Kingdom 16 to become the first provisional 2022 champion. Toru Yano won the provisional title at New Years Golden Series (Night 4), then Taichi won it at Wrestle Grand Hyper Battle '22, then Shingo Takagi won it at Golden Fight Series 2022, and he retained it to become the official 2022 champion. | 250
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