NJPW Roster in 2005: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions
On this page you find the full NJPW Roster in the year 2005. 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 (55)
Heavyweight
Junior Heavyweight
Young Lions
Teams
Black New Japan
C.T.U
C.T.U.
Cho-Ten
Hiro Saito & Tatsutoshi Goto
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Koji Kanemoto
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yutaka Yoshie
Jushin Thunder Liger & El Samurai
Kensuke Family
Koji Kanemoto & Wataru Inoue
La Ola Amarilla
Most Violent Players
Team JAPAN
World Class Tag Team
Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi
Yuji Nagata & Takashi Iizuka
Champions
IWGP Heavyweight Championship | Brock Lesnar
| 84+
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Kazuyuki Fujita
| 82
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Hiroyoshi Tenzan
| 65
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Satoshi Kojima
| 83
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Hiroyoshi Tenzan
| 70
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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | Black Tiger (IV)
| 84+
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Tiger Mask (IV)
| 277
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Minoru
Previously known as Minoru Tanaka. | 387
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IWGP Tag Team Championship | Cho-TenHiroyoshi Tenzan & Masahiro Chono
During this reign Tenzan & Chono showed signs of inactivity, so an interim tag team title was created and Togi Makabe & Shiro Koshinaka won it at Circuit 2006 Turbulence. Then Manabu Nakanishi & Takao Ōmori defeat them to win the interim title. | 62+
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Hiroshi Tanahashi & Shinsuke Nakamura
Defeated Kensuke Sasaki & Minoru Suzuki to win the vacant title. | 323
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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship | Hirooki Goto & Minoru
| 231+
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Wataru Inoue & Koji Kanemoto
| 71
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Gedo & Jado
| 272
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IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship | Hiroshi Tanahashi
Defeated Toru Yano in a tournament final for the vacant title. | 196+
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Vacant
Nakamura vacated the title by company request due to not defending it. | 48
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Shinsuke Nakamura
| 117
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Hiroshi Tanahashi
Defeated Shinya Makabe in G2 U-30 Climax tournament finals to become the inaugural champion. The title wa exclusive to under-30 wrestlers. | 622
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