NJPW Roster in 1981: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions
On this page you find the full NJPW Roster in the year 1981. 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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NJPW: All (49)
Heavyweight
Junior Heavyweight
Young Lions
Teams
Animal Hamaguchi & Rusher Kimura
Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami
Golden Combi
Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami
Power Fighters
The Texas Outlaws
Wild Samoans
Champions
Asia Heavyweight Championship | Tiger Jeet Singh
Defeated Seiji Sakaguchi in Asia Heavyweight League finals to become the inaugural champion. | 1729
|
Asia Tag Team Championship | Tiger Jeet Singh & Umanosuke Ueda
| 1378
|
WWF Junior Heavyweight Championship | Vacant
The title was vacated when Fujinami entered the heavyweight division. | 30+
| |
Tatsumi Fujinami
| 789
|
WWF World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship | Antonio Inoki
The WWWF World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship was created for a partnership between WWWF and NJPW, and was awarded by Vincent J. McMahon to Inoki for his achievements in matches against fighters from other combat sports. During this reigns the title changes name to WWF World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship. | 1109+
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NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship | Les Thornton
| 47+
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Extras
Ring Announcer
Presidents
Promoters
Referees
Producers
Coaches
Ambassador
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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