NJPW Roster in 2002: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions
On this page you find the full NJPW Roster in the year 2002. This includes the list of all NJPW Wrestlers from Heavyweight, Junior Heavyweight and Young Lions, 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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Young Lions
Teams
Cho-Ten
Club 7
Dr. Wagner Jr. & Silver King
The Havana Pitbulls / Los Cubanitos
Hiro Saito & Tatsutoshi Goto
Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai
King of the Hills
Makai Club
Manabu Nakanishi & Yutaka Yoshie
Riki Choshu & Kensuke Sasaki
SWING-LOWS
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Tencozy / Ten-Koji
World Class Tag Team
Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi
Yuji Nagata & Takashi Iizuka
Champions
IWGP Heavyweight Championship![]() | ![]() | Yuji Nagata
| 270+
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![]() | Tadao Yasuda
Defeated Yuji Nagata in a tournament final to win the vacant title. | 48
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![]() | Vacant
Fujita vacated the title due to an injured achilles tendon. | 43
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![]() | Kazuyuki Fujita
| 270
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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship![]() | ![]() | Koji Kanemoto
| 165+
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![]() | Heat
Defeated Masahito Kakihara to win the vacant title. | 153
| |
![]() | Vacant
Kashin left NJPW and returned the title to the IWGP Executive Committee. | 15
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![]() | Kendo Kashin
| 116
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IWGP Tag Team Championship![]() | ![]() ![]() | Cho-TenHiroyoshi Tenzan & Masahiro Chono
Defeated Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata in a tournament final to win the vacant title. | 282+
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![]() ![]() | Vacant
The title was vacated due to Mutoh leaving NJPW. | 50
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![]() ![]() | BATTKeiji Muto / The Great Muta & Taiyo Kea
| 97
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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship![]() | ![]() ![]() | Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
| 124+
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![]() ![]() | Jushin "Thunder" Liger & Heat
| 119
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![]() ![]() | Gedo & Jado
| 286
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Extras
Part Time Wrestlers
Manager
Commentators
Ring Announcer
Presidents
Chairman
CEO - Chief Executive Officer
Promoters
Referees
Producers
Coaches
Ambassadors
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