NJPW Roster in 1987: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

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On this page you find the full NJPW Roster in the year 1987. 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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Wright Hill · 1 days ago
Roman Reigns moved to Raw!
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  GHOST · 1 days ago
  
  @Wright Hill When?
  
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Nomad · 5 days ago
Can you please add team F.I.S.T, Shane saw, up in smoke, and los ice creams?
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  Joshua Araujo
  
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  @Nomad Some old school Chikara names, pretty cool. We have some similarly related ROH names on our to-do list, I think when we finish them, we can add on some more to this very influential US indie company. If I'm not mistaken though weren't Los Ice Creams portrayed by various people?
  
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  Nomad · 4 days ago
  
  @Joshua Araujo Well…….yeah, but I don’t know if we’re counting very mysterious ice cream.
  
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DMHunk · 8 days ago
Please add The New Day as heels… now that they turned on Big E🥹
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ty eash · 9 days ago
Hello! It's me again! I have even more people for you guys to add the ECW roster:

Ian Rotten
Chris Chetti
Jack Victory
Jason
Spanish Angel
Wild Bill/Beautiful Billy
Tony Devito (Not related to Danny Devito)
Prodigy
Jim Molineaux
Val Puccio (He was an FBI member once)
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  Joshua Araujo
  
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  · 9 days ago
  
  @ty eash Some very good suggestions there, I think Chetti/Victory would be priorities among the names listed there. Would love to do Chris Hamrick as well
  
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  ty eash · 8 days ago
  
  @Joshua Araujo Awesome! Don't forget the other stuff I mentioned prior too! You guys are the best!
  
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Nomad · 9 days ago
Can you please add some titles to Noah and all japan
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  Joshua Araujo
  
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  @Nomad Considering how much work I've put in to the historical AJPW/Noah roster, this might not be too far away from someday occurring
  
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Jacob Dunman · 10 days ago
You're missing Gunner Scott from WWE in 2006. He was on Smackdown for a hiccup. He wrestled as Brent Albright in OVW.
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Wright Hill · 11 days ago
Make sure that Jimmy and Jey Uso are both injured after war games.
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  Nomad · 10 days ago
  
  @Wright Hill Sounds illegal out of context
  
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ty eash · 12 days ago
Hey, it's me again. (Sorry, I am being really annoying, I know) But I have even more suggestions for the ECW alumni roster.

If it's possible, can we get A.J. Petrucci & Doug Stahl (The Super Destroyers)? It would be important to get them, because they are not only 2 time ECW Tag Team Champions, but they are also the inaugural ECW Tag Team Champions as well, which would make them really important to include. Also, they look kinda cool with their black masks.

Another guy I would like to be added is Johnny Hotbody. He was the ECW Heavyweight Champion once, beating inaugural champ, Jimmy Snuka, becoming the 2nd ever ECW Heavyweight champ.

Last but not least, a while back I asked for Chubby Dudley and Dances With Dudley to be in with the rest of the Dudleys. Well I kinda forgor one member, and that is none other than Lil' Snot Dudley. He didn't have that big of a career, so getting all of his info wouldn't be that hard.

I appreciate the hard work you guys do, and I can't wait to see awesome this will play out! Keep up the good work mods!
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ty eash · 12 days ago
Can you guys add Aerostar and Texano to the Lucha Underground alumni roster?
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ty eash · 12 days ago
Damn. I didn't even know there were two Kamala's. Much power to the guy who suggested him to be in the ECW alumni roster!
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ty eash · 12 days ago
Woah. They just added Mustapha Saed right in front of my eyes rn. I just checked to see if he was there. He wasn't, so I went through the website randomly for a bit, and when I came back, there he is.
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gary vaughan · 13 days ago
add the free agents to be on Smackdown Raw and NXT Brands
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gary vaughan · 13 days ago
add the wrestlers from AEW and TNA to be on Smackdown Raw and NXT brands
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Travis Smith · 15 days ago
All Time roster is having some sort of difficulty, can you see if you can fix it
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  Travis Smith · 15 days ago
  
  @Travis Smith It seems to be attempting to work, if you did something, thank you
  
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Sohyle Setaya · 17 days ago
Bianca heel😈
Bianca Belair attack Jade Cargill
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gary vaughan · 17 days ago
add cm punk to OG bloodline
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İlke Kurtlutepe · 18 days ago
Punk's return should be updated for face/heel list
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gary vaughan · 19 days ago
add the rock or Cody Rhodes to the OG bloodline Stable
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ty eash · 20 days ago
Can you please finish the original dudley stable by adding Chubby Dudley and Dances With Dudley?
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Jota Eme · 22 days ago
Idk if someone ever asked for this before but I think you should add the feature of creating a custom roster and share on this website. No matter the year, era or company. It would be a cool thing for the fans.
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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship	Hiroshi Hase Won: December 27, 1987 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Year End in Kokugikan (1987): Inoki Toukon Live III 4+ days	4+ days
	Kuniaki Kobayashi Won: August 20, 1987 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Summer Night Fever in Kokugikan 129 days Defeated Nobuhiko Takada to win the vacant title.	129 days
	Vacant Won: August 2, 1987 18 days Koshinaka vacated the title due to injuring his right ankle.	18 days
	Shiro Koshinaka Won: September 19, 1986 Fukuoka, Japan \| NJPW Challenge Spirit 1986 317 days	317 days

IWGP Tag Team Championship	Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kazuo Yamazaki Won: September 1, 1987 Fukuoka, Japan \| NJPW Sengoku Battle Series 1987 121+ days	121+ days
	Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada Won: March 26, 1987 Osaka, Japan \| NJPW Inoki Toukon Live II 159 days	159 days
	Vacant Won: February 5, 1987 43 days The title was vacated when Kimura & Fujinami split up.	43 days
	Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami Won: September 23, 1986 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Challenge Spirit 1986 135 days	135 days

NJPW Roster in 1987: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

NJPW: All (56)

Heavyweight

Junior Heavyweight

Young Lions

Teams

Akira Maeda & Osamu Kido

Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami

The Cosmic Cowboys

Golden Combi

Ishin Gundan / New Wolves

Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami

The Von Erichs

Champions

IWGP Heavyweight Championship

Antonio Inoki

IWGP Heavyweight Championship

Antonio Inoki

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship

Hiroshi Hase

Kuniaki Kobayashi

Vacant

Shiro Koshinaka

IWGP Tag Team Championship

Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kazuo Yamazaki

Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada

Vacant

Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami

WWF World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship

Antonio Inoki

Extras

Part Time Wrestler

Manager

Ring Announcer

President

Promoter

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Coaches

Ambassador