NJPW Roster in 1996: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions
On this page you find the full NJPW Roster in the year 1996. 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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Junior Heavyweight
Young Lions
Teams
Bull Powers
The Four Horsemen
Golden Cups
Harlem Heat
Heisei Ishingun







Hiro Saito & Tatsutoshi Goto
Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki
J-J-Jacks
Junji Hirata & Shinya Hashimoto
Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai
Kazuo Yamazaki & Takashi Iizuka
Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami
Masa Saito & Shinya Hashimoto
nWo Japan
Ookami Gundan
Riki Choshu & Kensuke Sasaki
The Road Warriors / Legion of Doom
Shinjiro Otani & Koji Kanemoto
Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Team Wolf
Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi
Champions
IWGP Heavyweight Championship![]() | ![]() | Shinya Hashimoto
| 246+
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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship![]() | ![]() | Ultimate Dragon
| 81+
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IWGP Tag Team Championship![]() | ![]() ![]() | Cho-TenHiroyoshi Tenzan & Masahiro Chono
| 168+
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WWF Light Heavyweight Championship![]() | ![]() | Ultimate Dragon
| 81+
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Extras
Commentator
Ring Announcer
Presidents
Promoters
Director of Operation
Referees
Producers
Coaches
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