NJPW Roster in 2012: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions
On this page you find the full NJPW Roster in the year 2012. 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 (64)
Heavyweight
Junior Heavyweight
Young Lions
Teams
Apollo 55
Black Dynamite
CHAOS
CHAOS Invincible
CHAOS Ride the Lightning
CHAOS Top Team
CHAOS World Wrestling Warriors
Complete Players
Crazy Ichizoku / Bloody CHAOS
Forever Hooligans
Golden☆Lovers
Great Bash Heel
IRON HADES
Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask
Killer Elite Squad
La Generación Dorada
La Ola Amarilla
Laughter7
No Remorse Corps
Seigigun
Suzuki-gun
Sword & Guns
Tencozy / Ten-Koji
Time Splitters
Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii
World Class Tag Team
Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi
Yuji Nagata & Wataru Inoue
Champions
IWGP Heavyweight Championship | Hiroshi Tanahashi
| 198+
| |
Kazuchika Okada
| 125
| ||
Hiroshi Tanahashi
| 404
|
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | Prince Devitt
| 50+
| |
Low Ki
| 34
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Kota Ibushi
| 71
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Low Ki
| 87
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Prince Devitt
Defeated KUSHIDA to win the vacant title. | 227
|
NEVER Openweight Championship | Masato Tanaka
Defeated Karl Anderson in a tournament finals to become the inaugural champion. | 42+
|
IWGP Intercontinental Championship | Shinsuke Nakamura
| 162+
| |
Hirooki Goto
| 161
| ||
Masato Tanaka
| 125
|
IWGP Tag Team Championship | Killer Elite SquadDavey Boy Smith Jr. & Lance Archer
| 84+
| |
TencozyHiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima
Defeated Chaos (Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka) to win the vacant title. | 78
| ||
Vacant
Iizuka & Yano were stripped of the title, after a title match between them and Tencozy on June 16 ended in a no contest. | 32
| ||
CHAOSToru Yano & Takashi Iizuka
| 48
| ||
TencozyHiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima
| 120
| ||
Bad IntentionsGiant Bernard & Karl Anderson
| 564
|
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship | Time SplittersAlex Shelley & Kushida
| 50+
| |
Forever HooligansRocky Romero & Alex Koslov
| 112
| ||
Jushin "Thunder" Liger & Tiger Mask (IV)
Defeated Suzuki-gun (Taichi & TAKA Michinoku) to win the vacant title. | 36
| ||
Vacant
The title held up after Davey Richards was unable to attend Wrestling Dontaku 2012 due to travel issues. | 45
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No Remorse CorpsRocky Romero & Davey Richards
| 80
| ||
Apollo 55Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi
| 39
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No Remorse CorpsRocky Romero & Davey Richards
| 86
|
Extras
Part Time Wrestler
Manager
Commentators
Promoter
Director of Operation
Referees
Producers
Coaches
Ambassadors
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