New Japan Pro-Wrestling

Japanese professional wrestling promotion

New Japan Pro-Wrestling Co., Ltd.

NJPW headquarters in Tokyo

Trade name

| New Japan-Pro Wrestling

Native name

| 新日本プロレスリング株式会社

Romanized name

| Shin Nihon Puroresuringu Kabushiki-gaisha
Company type| Subsidiary
Industry| Professional wrestling
Streaming media
Predecessor| Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance
Founded| January 13, 1972; 53 years ago (1972-01-13)
Founder| Antonio Inoki
Headquarters| Sumitomo Nakanosakaue Bldg 1-38-1
Chuo, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan[1]

Area served

| Worldwide

Key people

| Naoki Sugabayashi
(Chairman)
Hiroshi Tanahashi
(President & Representative Director)
Products|

* Films
* Home video
* Live events
* Merchandise
* Music
* Pay-per-view
* Publishing
* TV
* Video on demand

Services| Licensing
Revenue|  ¥5.4 billion (2019[2])
Owners| Bushiroad[3][2]
(majority owner – 85%)
TV Asahi[2]
(minority owner – 10%)
Amuse Inc.[2]
(minority owner – 5%)

Number of employees

| 78 (2020[2])
Divisions| NJPW Dojo
NJPW World
Team NJPW
Tokon Shop
Subsidiaries| New Japan Pro-Wrestling of America[4]
World Wonder Ring Stardom[5]
Website|

* njpw.co.jp
(Japanese site)
* njpw1972.com
(English site)

New Japan Pro-Wrestling (新日本プロレスリング株式会社, Shin Nihon Puroresuringu Kabushiki-gaisha) (NJPW)[2] or simply New Japan is a Japanese professional-wrestling promotion founded on January 13, 1972, by Antonio Inoki, and based in Nakano, Tokyo. It is currently majority owned by card-game company Bushiroad, with TV Asahi and Amuse Inc. owning minority shares of the promotion.[2] Naoki Sugabayashi has served as the promotion's Chairman since September 2013,[6] while Hiroshi Tanahashi has served as the president of the promotion since December 2023.

Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, NJPW is the largest and longest-running professional wrestling promotion in Japan.[7] Their biggest event is the January 4 Tokyo Dome Show (currently promoted under the Wrestle Kingdom banner) held each year since 1992. In addition to promoting professional wrestling matches, NJPW has also showcased mixed martial arts fights on some of its live events.

The promotion was owned by Yuke's from 2005 until 2012.[8][9][10] It was then sold to Bushiroad in 2012, which parlayed its entry to the world of professional wrestling into a best-selling trading card game, King of Pro Wrestling, and appearances from NJPW stars in its various franchises.

NJPW was affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance at various points in its history. NJPW also has and has had agreements with various MMA and professional wrestling promotions around the world; including WWE, World Championship Wrestling, American Wrestling Association, World Class Championship Wrestling, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, WAR, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, UWFi, Ring of Honor, Pride Fighting Championships, and All Elite Wrestling.[11]

## History

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### Formation and early history (1972–2000)

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History

* History of professional wrestling
* By year
* Early wrestling championships
* Gold Dust Trio
* 1980s boom
* Black Saturday
* 1994 NWA World Title Tournament
* Monday Night War
* Attitude Era
* 2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus
* The Invasion
* Wednesday Night Wars

Notable promotions

* AEW
* All Japan Pro Wrestling
* All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
* All Star Wrestling
* American Wrestling Association
* Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
* Extreme Championship Wrestling
* DDT Pro-Wrestling
* Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
* Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
* Jim Crockett Promotions
* Joint Promotions
* Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
* Major League Wrestling
* Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling
* National Wrestling Alliance
* New Japan Pro-Wrestling
* Pro Wrestling Noah
* Ring of Honor
* Soft Ground Wrestling
* Stampede Wrestling
* Titanes en el ring
* Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling
* TNA
* UWF International
* Women of Wrestling
* World Championship Wrestling (Australia)
* World Championship Wrestling (United States)
* World Wonder Ring Stardom
* WWE
* Raw
* SmackDown
* NXT
* Evolve
* Others

Notable men

Early 20th century (Before 1949)

* Bert Assirati
* Billy Riley
* Billy Sandow
* Ed "Strangler" Lewis
* Frank Gotch
* George Hackenschmidt
* The Great Gama
* Jack Pfefer
* Joe Stecher
* Jim Londos
* Lou Thesz
* Martin "Farmer" Burns
* Orville Brown
* Salvador Lutteroth
* Toots Mondt

Mid 20th century (1950−1969)

* Blue Demon
* Bruno Sammartino
* Buddy Rogers
* Danny Hodge
* Dick "The Destroyer" Beyer
* Édouard Carpentier
* El Santo
* Freddie Blassie
* Gene Kiniski
* Gorgeous George
* Karl Gotch
* Killer Kowalski
* Rikidōzan
* Sam Muchnick
* Stu Hart
* Verne Gagne

1970s

* Abdullah The Butcher
* Akira Maeda
* André the Giant
* Antonio Inoki
* Baron von Raschke
* Big Daddy
* Billy Robinson
* Carlos Colón
* Dory Funk Jr.
* Dusty Rhodes
* Ernie Ladd
* Giant Baba
* Gordon Solie
* Harley Race
* Jack Brisco
* Mil Máscaras
* Negro Navarro
* Nick Bockwinkel
* Terry Funk

1980s

* Bobby Heenan
* Dynamite Kid
* Genichiro Tenryu
* Hulk Hogan
* Jim Crockett Jr.
* Kerry Von Erich
* Randy Savage
* Ric Flair
* Ricky Steamboat
* Roddy Piper
* Satoru Sayama
* Stan Hansen
* Ted DiBiase
* Vince McMahon

1990s

* Akira Taue
* Antonio Peña
* Atsushi Onita
* Bret Hart
* Eric Bischoff
* Jim Ross
* Jushin Liger
* Keiji Muto
* Kenta Kobashi
* Kevin Nash
* Mick Foley
* Mitsuharu Misawa
* Owen Hart
* Paul Heyman
* Rob Van Dam
* Ron Simmons
* Scott Hall
* Shawn Michaels
* Sting
* Steve Austin
* The Rock
* The Undertaker
* Toshiaki Kawada
* Triple H
* Vince Russo

2000s

* AJ Styles
* Batista
* Brock Lesnar
* Chris Jericho
* Eddie Guerrero
* Edge
* Hiroshi Tanahashi
* Jeff Hardy
* Jeff Jarrett
* John Cena
* Kurt Angle
* Místico
* Naomichi Marufuji
* Randy Orton
* Rey Mysterio
* Samoa Joe

2010s−2020s

* Bryan Danielson
* CM Punk
* Cody Rhodes
* Jon Moxley
* Kazuchika Okada
* Kenny Omega
* Nick Khan
* Roman Reigns
* Rossy Ogawa
* Seth Rollins
* Tetsuya Naito
* Tony Khan
* Will Ospreay
* Zack Sabre Jr.

Notable women

Early and Mid 20th century (1900−1974)

* Chabela Romero
* Cora Livingston
* Donna Christanello
* Ethel Johnson
* Irma González
* June Byers
* La Dama Enmascarada
* Mae Young
* Mildred Burke
* The Fabulous Moolah

Late 20th century (1975−1999)

* Aja Kong
* Akira Hokuto
* Bull Nakano
* Chigusa Nagayo
* Chyna
* Dump Matsumoto
* Jackie Sato
* Lady Apache
* Lioness Asuka
* Madusa Miceli
* Manami Toyota
* Megumi Kudo
* Miss Elizabeth
* Sherri Martel
* Wendi Richter

2000s

* Awesome Kong
* Ayako Hamada
* Beth Phoenix
* Faby Apache
* Gail Kim
* Kaori Yoneyama
* Lita
* Madison Eagles
* Marcela
* Nanae Takahashi
* Sara Del Rey
* Stephanie McMahon
* Trish Stratus

2010s

* Alexa Bliss
* Asuka
* Bayley
* Becky Lynch
* Charlotte Flair
* Iyo Sky
* Kairi Sane
* Mayu Iwatani
* Meiko Satomura
* Mercedes Moné
* Princesa Sugehit
* Ronda Rousey

2020s

* Bianca Belair
* Giulia
* Liv Morgan
* Rhea Ripley
* Sareee
* Syuri
* Toni Storm
* Utami Hayashishita

Notable tag teams and stables

Mid 20th century − 1970s

* Assassins
* Blackjacks
* Blond Bombers
* The Duseks
* Fabulous Kangaroos
* First Family
* Kalmikoffs
* Los Misioneros de la Muerte
* Sharpe Brothers
* Valiant Brothers
* Wild Samoans

1980s

* Brain Busters
* British Bulldogs
* Bushwackers
* Crush Gals
* Demolition
* Fabulous Freebirds
* Four Horsemen
* Hart Foundation
* Heenan Family
* Los Infernales
* Mega Powers
* Nasty Boys
* Midnight Express
* Revolution
* Road Warriors
* Rock 'n' Roll Express
* Steiner Brothers

1990s

* Cho-Ten
* Dangerous Alliance
* D-Generation X (New Age Outlaws)
* Doom
* Dudley Brothers and the Dudley Boyz
* Dungeon of Doom
* Harlem Heat
* Heisei Ishingun
* Holy Demon Army
* Jado & Gedo
* Kai En Tai
* Las Cachorras Orientales
* Los Gringos Locos
* Ministry of Darkness
* Miracle Violence Connection
* New World Order (Outsiders)
* Public Enemy

2000s

* Age of the Fall
* Apollo 55
* Beer Money, Inc.
* The Briscoes
* Brothers of Destruction
* Burning
* Colony
* Edge & Christian
* Evolution
* Hardy Boyz
* Kings of Wrestling
* Latin American Xchange
* Los Guerreros
* Main Event Mafia
* Motor City Machine Guns
* Tencozy
* Voodoo Murders

2010s and 2020s

* The Addiction / SCU
* American Wolves
* Blackpool Combat Club / Death Riders
* Bloodline (Usos)
* Bullet Club
* Chaos
* Elite
* FTR
* Golden Lovers
* Judgment Day
* Los Ingobernables (de Japón)
* Los Perros del Mal
* New Day
* Oedo Tai
* Queen's Quest
* Shield
* Undisputed Era (reDRagon)
* Wyatt Family
* Young Bucks

By region

* Australia
* Bolivia
* Canada
* China
* France
* India
* Iran
* Israel
* Japan
* Mexico
* New Zealand
* Puerto Rico
* Russia
* Saudi Arabia
* United Kingdom
* United States

Styles

* British wrestling
* All-in style
* Mountevans rules
* Cruiserweight
* X Division
* French catch
* Hardcore
* Intergender
* Lucha libre
* Midget
* Mini-Estrella
* Puroresu
* Shoot style
* U-Kei
* Women's

Concepts

* Attire
* Masks
* Wrestling singlet
* Wrestling shoe
* Blading
* Championship
* World Heavyweight
* Dirt sheet
* Glossary of terms
* Kayfabe
* Gimmick
* Face
* Heel
* Shoot
* Heat
* Job
* Push
* House show
* Match types
* Music
* Ring name
* Sports entertainment
* Tag team
* Weight classes
* Wrestling ring

Culture

* Backyard wrestling
* Cauliflower Alley Club
* Cauliflower ear
* Comic books
* Fantasy wrestling
* Films
* Luchador films
* Magazines
* Paintings
* Gustave Courbet
* Thomas Eakins
* William Etty
* George Luks
* Rib
* Ribera Steakhouse
* Ten-bell salute
* Video games
* Wrestling personalities in politics
* Zubaz

Media outlets

* Botchamania
* Box y Lucha
* Dark Side of the Ring
* Fighting Spirit Magazine
* Live Audio Wrestling
* OSW Review
* Power Slam
* Pro Wrestling Illustrated
* Solowrestling
* Súper Luchas
* WrestleCrap
* Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Controversies

* Animals in professional wrestling
* Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide
* David Arquette in WCW
* Death of Owen Hart
* Fingerpoke of Doom
* Killing of Bruiser Brody
* Killing of Rikidōzan
* Mass Transit incident
* Montreal Screwjob
* Premature deaths
* Ring boy scandal
* Speaking Out
* United States v. McMahon
* Vince McMahon sex trafficking scandal
* WWE–Saudi Arabia relationship

Lists

* Attendance records
* Championships
* Families
* Halls of fame
* Matches rated 5 or more stars by Dave Meltzer
* Moves
* Promotions
* Rivalries
* Rosters
* TV shows
* Wrestling families

Related topics

* Combat sport
* Comparison of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts
* Martial arts
* Mock combat
* Pankration
* Shootfighting
* Sport wrestling
* Amateur
* Catch
* Shoot
* Submission
* Lancashire
* Luta Livre
* Pehlwani
* Stage combat
* Theatre
* Theatresports

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The promotion's founder Antonio Inoki, seen here in 2012.

The promotion was founded by Antonio Inoki on January 13, 1972[12] after his departure from the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance promotion.[13] The first NJPW event, titled Opening Series, took place on March 6, 1972, in the Ota Ward Gymnasium in Tokyo, to a crowd of 5,000.[14][15] The following year, NJPW signed a television deal with NET TV, now known as TV Asahi.[12] The company launched its own governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix (IWGP); and in 1983, Hulk Hogan became the first ever IWGP Heavyweight Champion by defeating Inoki.[16] However, this championship was later abandoned and the current version of the championship was established in 1987. Inoki would serve as the president of the promotion until 1989, when he was succeeded by Seiji Sakaguchi.[12]

On April 24, 1989, NJPW hosted Battle Satellite, its first show in the Tokyo Dome.[17] The promotion was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) from 1975 to 1985 and once more from 1992 to 1993. NJPW was briefly reaffiliated with the NWA in the late 2000s to the early 2010s as well. On January 4, 1992, NJPW partnered with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) to produce Super Warriors, the first ever January 4 Tokyo Dome Show,[18] an event that would become an annual tradition for NJPW and is considered their biggest event of the year and comparable to WWE's WrestleMania event. In April 1995, NJPW and WCW held the two-day Collision in Korea event at the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea. The event was the first professional wrestling event held in North Korea and holds the record for most attended wrestling event of all time, with 355,000 people packing the stadium over the two days.[19][20][21]

### Decline and Inoki's departure (2000–2011)

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In the early 2000s, the burgeoning popularity of mixed martial arts (MMA) in Japan was noticed by Inoki, who wanted to integrate elements of shoot wrestling to make the company appear more realistic. The company would partner with martial arts organization K-1 and begin to insert wrestlers into MMA fights, with the goal of pushing NJPW in a more realistic direction and to make it appear as an actual sport.[22] The company's new management was criticized by critics and fans.[23] Inoki later departed NJPW in 2005 after selling his share of the company to Yuke's,[24][25] and began his own promotion, the Inoki Genome Federation (IGF), in 2007. After his departure, Inoki's son-in-law Simon took over the company, before Naoki Sugabayashi was appointed president in 2007 after Simon also left NJPW to join Antonio in IGF.[12] After the departure of the Inoki family, the company began to reintegrate its prior puroresu style of wrestling.[26]

Also in 2007, NJPW hosted its first ever pay-per-view (PPV) event Wrestle Kingdom I.[27]

The promotion debuted a new series called NEVER in August 2010, designed to be a series of events spotlighting younger up-and-coming New Japan talent and feature more outsider participation in the promotion. On January 4, 2011, New Japan officially announced the NJPW Invasion Tour 2011: Attack on East Coast, the promotion's first tour of the United States to be held in May 2011. The tour featured shows in Rahway, New Jersey on May 13, New York City on May 14 and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 15, as well as cross-promotion with American independent group Jersey All Pro Wrestling (JAPW). As part of the tour, NJPW introduced a new title, the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.[28]

### Acquisition by Bushiroad and expansion (2012–2020)

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On January 31, 2012, Yuke's announced that it had sold all shares of New Japan Pro-Wrestling to card game company Bushiroad for ¥500 million ($6.5 million).[29]

New Japan aired its first internet pay-per-view, the fourth day of the 2012 G1 Climax, on August 5, 2012.[30] The October 8, 2012, King of Pro-Wrestling pay-per-view marked the first time viewers outside Japan were able to order a pay-per-view by the promotion through Ustream.[31][32] On October 5, 2012, New Japan announced the creation of the NEVER Openweight Championship, which would be contested for on the NEVER series. A two-day tournament to determine the inaugural champion was held between November 15 and 19, 2012.[33] The final NEVER event was held in November 2012.

In February 2014, New Japan announced a partnership with Ring of Honor (ROH), which saw the promotion return to North America the following May to present two supershows; Global Wars in Toronto and War of the Worlds in New York City.[34][35] During the tour, New Japan wrestlers also took part in an event held by Canadian promotion Border City Wrestling (BCW).[36] A year later, NJPW and ROH announced another tour together to produce four more supershows; War of the Worlds '15 on May 12 and 13 in Philadelphia and Global Wars '15 on May 15 and 16 in Toronto.[37]

In June 2014, New Japan announced a partnership with the new American Global Force Wrestling (GFW) organization helmed by Jeff Jarrett.[38] In November 2014, GFW announced that it would be broadcasting NJPW's Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome on pay-per-view in the United States as a four-hour event.[39] Also in November 2014, the American AXS TV network announced it had acquired rights to rebroadcast a series of thirteen episodes of NJPW matches from TV Asahi. The series premiered on January 16, 2015, airing weekly on Fridays.[40] Averaging 200,000 viewers per episode, the show was considered a success, leading to AXS TV and TV Asahi signing a multi-year deal to continue airing the show.[41] In June 2016, the show was also acquired by the Canadian Fight Network.[42] On December 1, 2014, NJPW and TV Asahi announced NJPW World, a new worldwide streaming site for the promotion's events.[43]

On July 18, 2015, NJPW announced the "New IWGP Conception", a global expansion strategy centered on their international partnerships with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), GFW, ROH, Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW), Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw), and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) as well as holding more shows in Thailand, Singapore, and Taiwan. Also announced was the Lion's Gate Project, which would feature NJPW rookies as well as up-and-coming outsiders working trial matches in an effort to earn a spot in the promotion. Finally, it was announced that there were plans to take the company public with a listing on the stock market within three to five years.[44][45][46]

On December 21, 2015, NJPW announced the creation of its seventh active title and the first six-man tag team championship in the promotion's history, the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship.[47] On January 5, 2016, NJPW announced a partnership with the Amuse talent agency with the goal of making the promotion's wrestlers internationally recognized stars in the vein of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.[48]

In March 2017, NJPW partnered with the New Zealand-based Fale Dojo, a pro wrestling training facility run by NJPW performer Bad Luck Fale.[49] NJPW will utilize the partnership as an opportunity to scout talent from Oceania.[49] The following month on April 24, 2017, it was announced that NJPW would co-present the Japanese qualifiers for the Pro Wrestling World Cup tournament hosted by the British What Culture Pro Wrestling (WCPW) promotion.[50]

On May 12, 2017, NJPW announced the creation of a new title: the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, with the inaugural champion to be crowned during the promotion's G1 Special in USA shows in Long Beach, California on July 1 and 2.[51][52] Four days later, NJPW held a press conference to announce plans to establish a subsidiary company, including a dojo, in the United States.[53] A Los Angeles office was scheduled to be opened before the end of 2017, with a dojo scheduled to be opened at the start of 2018.[54] NJPW's second American event, Strong Style Evolved, took place on March 25, 2018, also in Long Beach.[55] In November 2017, NJPW signed a television deal with Discovery Communications, which would see the company's programming brought to 70 million Indian homes through DSport.[56]

In January 2018, NJPW announced the four-show Fallout Down Under tour, the promotion's inaugural tour of Australia spanning from February 16–19.[57] In March 2018, New Japan opened the NJPW LA Dojo with Katsuyori Shibata serving as head trainer and ROH wrestler Scorpio Sky serving as assistant trainer.[58] On May 13, 2018, New Japan hired its first foreign president, Dutch businessman Harold Meij.[59]

In February 2019, NJPW re-established their partnership with the NWA and entered into a new partnership with The Crash Lucha Libre; both partnerships ended later in 2019.[60][61] On October 21, 2019, NJPW announced the formation of a new American subsidiary of the company, named New Japan Pro-Wrestling of America (NJoA).[4] In 2019, they had run a record 13 shows in the United States, with plans to run double that in 2020. It was reported at the same time that NJPW and ROH had no joint shows planned for the future.[62]

On October 31, 2019, Super7 announced the first line of NJPW action figures.[63][64]

### Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2022)

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Further information: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports and COVID-19 pandemic in Japan

Amidst from the Japanese onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, in accordance with recommendations from the Japanese Ministry of Health, NJPW decided to cancel all scheduled shows from March 1 through March 15.[65] On March 10, NJPW announced that they were cancelling all shows through March 22, which meant that they cancelled the 2020 New Japan Cup as well.[66] World Wonder Ring Stardom is owned by Bushiroad, also made adjustments to their schedule, cancelling shows from February 18 to March 14. Their March 8 show in Korakuen Hall was held without any spectators in attendance, instead streaming live on their YouTube channel.[67] On March 23, NJPW would later cancel the 2020 Sakura Genesis event that was originally scheduled to take place in on March 31.[68][69]

On April 8, NJPW would cancel more events from April 11 through May 4, which mean both nights of 2020 Wrestling Dontaku were cancelled as well.[70] On May 6, NJPW cancelled their annual Best of the Super Juniors tournament.[71] The next day, NJPW postponed their Wrestle Dynasty event to 2021, which was to take place in Madison Square Garden in New York.[72] On June 9, NJPW announced their return with special show with mystery match card called Together Special on June 15 and the return of the New Japan Cup would now be held from June 16 until July 11, with the final being held at Osaka-jō Hall in Osaka alongside Dominion in Osaka-jo Hall being rescheduled to July 12.[73][74]

NJPW 50th Anniversary logo, introduced in late 2021 to celebrate the milestone

On September 29, NJPW announced that Meij would no longer be appointed president of the promotion and was replaced by Takami Ohbari on October 23, who is the current CEO of New Japan Pro-Wrestling of America.[75]

In 2020, NJPW partnered with Game Changer Wrestling (GCW) and Major League Wrestling (MLW), with both promotions sending wrestlers to the Super J-Cup tournament.[76] On July 31, NJPW announced a new weekly series titled NJPW Strong, with its initial episodes to feature matches from the inaugural New Japan Cup USA tournament. As part of NJPW's expansion into the United States, the series would be produced by NJoA.[77] In February 2021, it was reported that NJPW had entered into partnerships with All Elite Wrestling (AEW)[78] and Impact Wrestling.[79] On November 19, 2021, NJPW would re-establish a relationship with Pro Wrestling Noah with Noah wrestlers being involved at the third night of NJPW's Wrestle Kingdom 16 event.[80]

During Wrestle Kingdom 16 in January 2022, it was announced that NJPW programming, including new programs and reruns of past English broadcasts, would return to AXS TV and Fight Network in the United States and Canada. Reruns will begin airing on AXS starting January 20, with all new content to premiere on March 3.[81] On the April 20, 2022 episode of AEW Dynamite, it was announced that New Japan and AEW would co-promote a supershow called AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door. The event would take place on June 26, 2022, at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.[82]

During September 2022, NJPW announced NJPW Tamashii, an Oceania-based brand that would stage events throughout the region.[83]

### Post-COVID and new partnerships (2022–present)

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On October 1, 2022, NJPW's founder Antonio Inoki died from systemic transthyretin amyloidosis at age 79.[84][85][86] On January 4, 2023, NJPW held their Wrestle Kingdom 17 event in Inoki's honor.[87]

In October 2023, NJPW and sister promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom established the Asia Pacific Pro-Wrestling Alliance, an interpromotional governing body that seeks to connect wrestling promotions across Asia.[88] On January 5, 2024, the alliance was renamed the Asia-Pacific Federation of Wrestling (APFW).[89] The inaugural event sanctioned by APFW, NJPW's Wrestling World in Taiwan, took place on April 14 in Taipei.[89]

In early December 2023, NJPW was announced as a founding member of the United Japan Pro-Wrestling (UJPW) alliance.[90] The inaugural UJPW event took place on May 6, 2024, in the Nippon Budokan arena.[90] On December 23, NJPW announced that Takami Ohbari had stepped down as the promotion's president, with Hiroshi Tanahashi replacing him as NJPW president and representative director.[91]

On April 23, 2024, NJPW announced that it would fully acquire sister promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom on June 28.[5] The acquisition was completed on June 28, with Stardom Co., Ltd. becoming a subsidiary of NJPW.

## Contracts

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Main article: List of New Japan Pro-Wrestling personnel

Up until the 1980s, NJPW signed its workers to multi-year contracts,[92] before changing to a system where the promotion signed its wrestlers to one-year deals that expired at the end of every January.[93] Following the departures of A.J. Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura, NJPW chairman Takaaki Kidani announced in February 2016 that the promotion was returning to the multi-year contract system.[92] The contracts forbid negotiations with other promotions.[94] After All Elite Wrestling (AEW) was launched by wrestlers working for NJPW, they started signing foreigners to guaranteed deals as well.[95] Any side contracts or agreements offered to wrestlers under NJPW contracts, need the promotion's approval before being signed.[96] NJPW currently has partnerships with several promotions across the world, for which NJPW wrestlers can also perform for.

NJPW partnerships  Promotion | Country

|

All Elite Wrestling (AEW)[78] | United States
All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW)[97] | Japan
Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW)[90] | Japan
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)[98][99] | Mexico
Costa Rica Wrestling Embassy (CWE)[100] | Costa Rica
DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT)[90] | Japan
Dragongate Japan Pro-Wrestling (Dragongate)[90] | Japan
Dragon Fighting Wrestling (DFW)[88] | China
Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro)[90] | Japan
Grapplemax Pro Wrestling Studios (Grapplemax)[88] | Singapore
Kyushu Pro-Wrestling (KPW) | Japan
Major League Wrestling (MLW)[101] | United States
Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah)[102] | Japan
Puzzle[88] | Taiwan
Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW)[103] | United Kingdom
Ring of Honor (ROH)[104] | United States
Setup Thailand Pro Wrestling (Setup)[88] | Thailand
Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling (TJPW)[90] | Japan
World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana (Diana) | Japan
World Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom)[105] | Japan

## Championships and accomplishments

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The promotion has its own fictional governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix, shortened as IWGP.

At the top of NJPW's championship hierarchy for male wrestlers is the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. Secondary titles include the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship, the NEVER Openweight Championship, the NJPW World Television Championship, and for wrestlers in New Japan's United States based NJPW Strong brand, there is the Strong Openweight Championship

For tag teams, there are three traditional championship for two-man teams (the IWGP Tag Team Championship and - for wrestlers in NJPW Strong - the Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship ) and for wrestlers in NJPW TAMASHII - the NJPW TAMASHII Tag Team Championship, and one for three-man teams (the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship).

There are two championships in NJPW for junior heavyweight wrestlers - a singles title (the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship) and one for tag teams (the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship).

There are two championships for female wrestlers in NJPW, the IWGP Women's Championship and the Strong Women's Championship (the latter for wrestlers in NJPW strong).

### Current championships

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Main article: List of current champions in New Japan Pro-Wrestling

As of August 3, 2025.

### Men's division

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#### Singles

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Championship  | Current champion(s)  | Reign  | Date won  | Days
held  | Successful
defenses  | Location  | Notes  | Ref.

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IWGP World Heavyweight Championship |  | Zack Sabre Jr. | 2 | June 29, 2025 | 35  | 0  | Nagoya, Japan | Defeated Hirooki Goto at Tanahashi Jam.  | [106]
IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship |  | Gabe Kidd | 1 | June 15, 2025 | 49  | 1  | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Yota Tsuji at Dominion 6.15 in Osaka-jo Hall.  | [107]
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship |  | El Desperado | 5 | January 4, 2025 | 211  | 6  | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Douki at Wrestle Kingdom 19.  | [108]
NEVER Openweight Championship |  | Boltin Oleg | 1 | June 15, 2025 | 49  | 1  | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Konosuke Takeshita at Dominion 6.15 in Osaka-jo Hall.  | [109]
Strong Openweight Championship |  | Tomohiro Ishii | 1 | April 11, 2025 | 114  | 1  | Chicago, Illinois | Defeated Gabe Kidd in a 30-minute iron man match, which Ishii won 2–1 in sudden death overtime at Windy City Riot.  | [110]
NJPW World Television Championship |  | El Phantasmo | 2  | April 29, 2025 | 96  | 2  | Saga, Japan | Defeated Great-O-Khan at Wrestling Hizen no Kuni.  | [111]

#### Tag team

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Championship  | Current champion(s)  | Reign  | Date won  | Days
held  | Successful
defenses  | Location  | Notes  | Ref.

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IWGP Tag Team Championship |
| Tomohiro Ishii and Taichi | 1
(2, 4) | June 15, 2025 | 49  | 0  | Osaka, Japan | Defeated United Empire (Great-O-Khan and Callum Newman) at Dominion 6.15 in Osaka-jo Hall.  | [112]
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship |
| House of Torture
(Sho and Douki) | 1
(6, 1) | June 15, 2025 | 49  | 0  | Osaka, Japan | Defeated Master Wato and Yoh at Dominion 6.15 in Osaka-jo Hall.  | [113]
Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship |
| United Empire
(TJP and Templario) | 1
(1, 1) | May 9, 2025  | 86  | 1  | Ontario, California | Defeated World Class Wrecking Crew (Royce Isaacs and Jorel Nelson) at Resurgence.  | [114]
NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship |

| Master Wato, Toru Yano and Yoh | 1
(1, 7, 2) | July 4, 2025  | 30  | 0  | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated House of Torture (Ren Narita, Sho and Yujiro Takahashi) at New Japan Soul 2025: Night 8.  |
NJPW TAMASHII Tag Team Championship  |
| The Pretty Boys
(Magic Mark and Pretty Richie) | 1
(1, 1) | July 4, 2025 | 30  | 0  | Auckland, New Zealand | Defeated Young Blood (Oskar Leube & Yuto Nakashima) at NJPW TAMASHII: Cold War in Auckland, New Zealand in the NJPW TAMASHII Tag Team Title Tournament Finals to become the inaugural Champions.  |

### Women's division

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Championship  | Current champion(s)  | Reign  | Date won  | Days
held  | Successful
defenses  | Location  | Notes  | Ref.

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IWGP Women's Championship |  | Sareee | 1 | June 21, 2025 | 43  | 0  | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Syuri at The Conversion.  | [115]
Strong Women's Championship |  | AZM | 1  | May 9, 2025 | 86  | 1  | Ontario, California | Defeated previous champion Mercedes Moné and Mina Shirakawa in a three-way match at Resurgence.  | [114]

### Defunct championships

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Championship  | Last champion(s)  | Reign  | Date retired  | Notes

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IWGP Heavyweight Championship | Kota Ibushi | 1  | March 4, 2021  | Unified with the IWGP Intercontinental Championship to create the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.
IWGP Intercontinental Championship | Kota Ibushi | 2  | March 4, 2021  | Unified with the IWGP Heavyweight Championship to create the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.
IWGP Third Belt Championship | Shinsuke Nakamura | 1  | February 17, 2008  | Unified with the IWGP Heavyweight Championship after Nakamura defeated the previous champion Kurt Angle.
IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship | Hiroshi Tanahashi | 2  | June 7, 2006  | The championship could only be won by wrestlers under the age of 30.
Vacated by Tanahashi at the age of 29 and soon after deactivated.
IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship | Will Ospreay | 2  | December 11, 2023  | The championship was deactivated and replaced by IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship.
KOPW | Great-O-Khan | 1  | December 22, 2024  | The championship was retired and deactivated by official 2024 champion Great-O-Khan.
NWF Heavyweight Championship | Shinsuke Nakamura | 1  | January 4, 2004  | Unified with the IWGP Heavyweight Championship after Nakamura defeated the previous champion Yoshihiro Takayama.
J-Crown Octuple Unified Championship | Shinjiro Otani | 1  | November 5, 1997  | The championship resulted from the unification of eight lower-weight class titles from several different wrestling promotions.
The championship was retired at the request of the WWF, who was introducing their own version of the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship (which was one of the component championships of the J-Crown).
Greatest 18 Club Championship | The Great Muta | 1  | August 16, 1992  | Muta retired championship, in order to focus on his IWGP Heavyweight Championship title defenses.
WWF World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship | Antonio Inoki | 2  | December 31, 1989  | The championship was contested in matches billed as shoot wrestling fights.
Abandoned for undocumented reasons.
IWGP Heavyweight Championship
(original version) | Antonio Inoki | 2  | May 11, 1987  | The championship was deactivated and replaced by the new IWGP Heavyweight Championship, which was first awarded to the winner of the 1987 IWGP League.[16]
WWF International Heavyweight Championship | Tatsumi Fujinami | 3  | October 31, 1985  | Abandoned after the NJPW and the WWF ended their working relationship.
WWF International Tag Team Championship | Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami | 1
(1, 1) | October 31, 1985  | Abandoned after the NJPW and the WWF ended their working relationship.
WWF Junior Heavyweight Championship | The Cobra | 2  | October 31, 1985  | Abandoned after the NJPW and the WWF ended their working relationship.
Asia Heavyweight Championship | Tiger Jeet Singh | 1  | April 23, 1981  | Championship retired after announcement of the IWGP, a new governing body, which would promote their own-branded championships.
Asia Tag Team Championship | Tiger Jeet Singh and Umanosuke Ueda | 1  | April 23, 1981  | Championship retired after announcement of the IWGP, a new governing body, which would promote their own-branded championships.
NWF Heavyweight Championship
(original version) | Antonio Inoki | 1  | April 23, 1981  | Championship retired after announcement of the IWGP, a new governing body, which would promote their own-branded championships.
NWF North American Championship | Tiger Jeet Singh | 1  | April 23, 1981  | Championship retired after announcement of the IWGP, a new governing body, which would promote their own-branded championships.
NWA North American Tag Team Championship
(Los Angeles/Japan version) | Riki Choshu and Seiji Sakaguchi | 1
(1, 5)  | April 23, 1981  | Championship retired after announcement of the IWGP, a new governing body, which would promote their own-branded championships.
WWF North American Heavyweight Championship | Seiji Sakaguchi | 1  | April 23, 1981  | Championship retired after announcement of the IWGP, a new governing body, which would promote their own-branded championships.
Real World Championship | Karl Gotch | 2  | 1972  | Abandoned for undocumented reasons.

## Events

[edit]

### Marquee events

[edit]

See also: List of major NJPW events

* Wrestle Kingdom
* New Year Dash!!
* The New Beginning
* NJPW Anniversary Show
* Sakura Genesis
* Wrestling Dontaku
* Dominion
* Destruction
* King of Pro-Wrestling
* Power Struggle

### International events

[edit]

* Strong Style Evolved
* Fighting Spirit Unleashed
* Royal Quest
* Resurgence
* Battle in the Valley
* Windy City Riot
* Capital Collision

### Collaborated events

[edit]

* Fantastica Mania (with CMLL)
* All Together (with UJPW)
* Forbidden Door (with AEW)
* Historic X-Over (with Stardom)
* Wrestle Dynasty (with AEW, CMLL, Stardom and Ring of Honor)

### Tournaments

[edit]

See also: List of New Japan Pro-Wrestling tournaments

#### Active

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Tournament  | Latest winner(s)  | Date won  | Location  | Notes

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G1 Climax | Zack Sabre Jr. | August 18, 2024  | Tokyo | Defeated Yota Tsuji in the tournament final.
World Tag League | Los Ingobernables de Japón
(Tetsuya Naito and Hiromu Takahashi) | December 8, 2024  | Kumamoto | Defeated Bullet Club War Dogs (Sanada and Gabe Kidd) in the tournament final.
New Japan Cup | David Finlay | March 20, 2025  | Nagaoka | Defeated Shota Umino in the tournament final.
Best of the Super Juniors | Kosei Fujita | June 1, 2025  | Ota, Tokyo | Defeated Yoh in the tournament final.
Super Junior Tag League[Note 1] | The Mighty Don't Kneel
(Robbie Eagles and Kosei Fujita) | November 4, 2024  | Osaka | Defeated Catch 2/2 (Francesco Akira and TJP) in the tournament final.
Oceania Cup  | Jack Bonza  | November 15, 2024  | Auckland | Defeated PunchDrunk Istria in the last block match.
NJPW Academy Cup  | Allan Breeze  | March 21, 2025  | Carson, California | Defeated Raymond Bright in the Finals match.

#### Inactive

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Tournament  | Last winner(s)  | Last held  | Type  | Created  | Notes

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New Japan Cup USA | Tom Lawlor | 2021  | Openweight | 2020  | A spin-off of the New Japan Cup tournament, held in 2020 and 2021.
Super J-Cup | El Phantasmo | 2020  | Junior Heavyweight | 1994  | A tournament for junior heavyweight wrestlers.
Lion's Break Crown | Clark Connors | 2020  | Openweight | 2020  | A single-elimination singles tournament, held in 2020.
Young Lion Cup[Note 2] | Karl Fredericks | 2019  | Openweight  | 1985  | A tournament for younger wrestlers.
J Sports Crown Openweight 6-Man Tag Tournament  | Apollo 555
(Hirooki Goto, Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi)  | 2011  | Openweight six-man tag team | 2010  | A single-elimination six-man tag team tournament, held in 2010 and 2011.
G2 U-30 Climax  | Hiroshi Tanahashi | 2005  | Openweight  | 2003  | A tournament for wrestlers under the age of 30, held in 2003 and 2005.

## Halls of Fame

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### Greatest 18 Club

[edit]

See also: Greatest 18 Club Championship

The Greatest 18 Club was New Japan's first hall of fame, being established in september 30th during Antonio Inoki's career 30th anniversary in 1990. Additionally, Lou Thesz also debuted a new Greatest 18 Club Championship, awarding it to Riki Choshu.

#### Inductees

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Ring name
(Birth name)  | Accolades

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Lou Thesz
(Aloysius Thesz) | Considered to be one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. He was a three-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, three-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion and a two-time World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. In Japan, he helped train young Japanese talents.
Karl Gotch
(Charles Istaz) | Inaugural and two-time Real World Champion. Wrestled Antonio Inoki in the main event of the very first show in NJPW. Helped training young Japanese talents.
André the Giant
(André Roussimoff) | Winner of the 1981 MSG Tag League, 1982 MSG Series and 1985 IWGP League and the Sagawa Express Cup.
Dusty Rhodes[Note 3]
(Virgil Runnels Jr.) | Three-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion and one-time NWF World Tag Team Champion. Participated in several NJPW tournaments.
Stan Hansen
(John Hansen) | One-time NWF Heavyweight Championship.
Wim Ruska
(Willem Ruska) | Professional wrestler and a judoka, only athlete to win two gold medals in Judo in one Olympics.
Billy Robinson
(William Robinson) | Two-time IWA World Heavyweight Champion, one-time NWA United National Championship and PWF World Heavyweight Champion. Helped training young Japanese talents.
Hiro Matsuda
(Yasuhiro Kojima) | Two-time NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion and one-time NWA North American Tag Team Champion.
Bob Backlund
(Robert Blacklund) | Two-time WWWF Heavyweight Champion, and one-time WWF Tag Team Champion.
Verne Gagne
(Laverne Gagne) | Ten-time AWA World Heavyweight Champion, four-time AWA World Tag Team Champion and one-time IWA World Heavyweight Champion.
Strong Kobayashi
(Shozo Kobayashi) | Two-time NWA North American Tag Team Champion.
Hulk Hogan
(Terry Bollea) | First original IWGP Heavyweight Champion, winner of 1982 and 1983 MSG Tag Leagues and 1983 IWGP Leagues. In America he was also six-time WWF Heavyweight/WWE Undisputed Champion and six-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion.
Muhammad Ali
(Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.) | Considered to be one of the greatest professional boxers of all time. Three-time heavyweight lineal champion. Fought Antonio Inoki in a wrestler vs. boxer match.
Seiji Sakaguchi | Four-time NWA North American Tag Team Champion, one-time NWF North American Heavyweight Champion and WWF North American Heavyweight Champion.
Nick Bockwinkel
(Nicholas Warren Francis Bockwinkel) | Four-time AWA World Heavyweight Champion, three-time AWA World Tag Team Champion and one-time AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion.
Johnny Powers (Dennis Waters) | One-time NWF Heavyweight Champion, one-time NWF North American Heavyweight Champion and one-time NWA North American Tag Team Champion (Los Angeles-Japan Version).
Johnny Valentine
(John Theodore Wisniski) | Five-time WWWF United States Television Champion, four-time WWWF United States Tag Team Champion, one-time NWA United States Heavyweight Champion, three-time NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Champion, one-time NWA World Tag Team Champion (Minneapolis Version), one time NWA International Tag Team Champion and one-time NWA United National Champion.
Antonio Inoki
(Kanji Inoki) | NJPW founder and first IWGP Heavyweight Champion. Also won many top titles, including the WWF World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship, NWA United National Championship and NWF Heavyweight Championship.

### Greatest Wrestlers

[edit]

The Greatest Wrestlers is New Japan's hall of fame, established in 2007 to honor wrestlers who have wrestled for the promotion. From 2007 to 2011, the inductions begin on March 6, the anniversary of the promotion's founding.[116]

#### Inductees

[edit]

Year  | Ring name
(Birth name)  | Accolades

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2007  | Antonio Inoki
(Kanji Inoki) | NJPW founder and first IWGP Heavyweight Champion. Also won many top titles, including the WWF World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship, NWA United National Championship and NWF Heavyweight Championship.
Seiji Sakaguchi | Three-time NWA North American Tag Team Champion and one-time NWF North American Heavyweight and WWF North American Heavyweight Champion.
Kantaro Hoshino
(Tatsuo Hoshino) | One-time IWA World Tag Team Champion with Kotetsu Yamamoto as the Yamaha Brothers. Also known as a promoter and manager.
Kotetsu Yamamoto
(Masaru Yamamoto) | One-time IWA World Tag Team Champion with Kantaro Hoshino as the Yamaha Brothers.
Shoji Kai
(Motoyuki Kitazawa) | Winner of the 1976 Karl Gotch Cup. Famous as the debut opponent of many legends, including Kotetsu Yamamoto, Rusher Kimura, Masa Saito, Tatsumi Fujinami, Osamu Kido, Mitsuo Momota, Satoru Sayama (the original Tiger Mask) and Hiro Saito.
2009  | Kuniaki Kobayashi | One of NJPW's top junior heavyweights of the 1980s and of a few to win the junior heavyweight titles in both New Japan and All Japan Pro Wrestling.
Akira Maeda
(Go Il-myeong) | Two-time IWGP Tag Team Champion. Founder of the Universal Wrestling Federation and Fighting Network Rings.
Black Cat
(Víctor Manuel Mar) | One-time Mexican National Junior Heavyweight Champion and Naucalpan Tag Team Champion.
2010  | Animal Hamaguchi
(Heigo Hamaguchi) | Trainer and two-time All Asia Tag Team Champion. Also four-time IWA World Tag Team Champion.
Shinya Hashimoto | One of the Three Musketeers. Three-time IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Tag Team Champion. Founder of Pro Wrestling Zero1.
2011  | Don Arakawa
(Makoto Arakawa) | One-time WWC Caribbean Tag Team Champion. Best known as an underdog and comedy wrestler.

## Broadcasters

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Domestic:

* TV Asahi (1973–present, currently broadcasting weekly highlights show World Pro-Wrestling and live specials)
* Fighting TV Samurai (1996–present, currently broadcasting live specials, retrospective shows and magazine show NJPW Battle DX)
* Abema (2014–present, online linear television service, live-streaming episodes of World Pro-Wrestling)

International (former):

* AXS TV (2014–19, 2022–24, United States, Canada, broadcast World Pro-Wrestling and major shows, dubbed with English commentary)
* Eurosport (mid '90s–2007, Europe, dubbed episodes of World Pro-Wrestling and major shows for various continental markets)
* The Wrestling Channel (2002–2005, UK & Ireland, dubbed and undubbed broadcasts of major shows)
* 1Sports (2020, Indian Subcontinent, broadcast the AXS version of World Pro-Wrestling)
* DSport/Eurosport (2017–2020, 2021, Indian Subcontinent, broadcast the AXS TV version of World Pro-Wrestling, Season 3–5)
* J-One (May 2018 – 2020, France, dubbed with French commentary)
* FX (2019–2020, South Korea, broadcasting the AXS TV version of World Pro-Wrestling)

International (current):

* The Roku Channel (2021–present, United States, United Kingdom and Canada broadcast World Pro-Wrestling and major shows, dubbed with English commentary)
* Fight Network (2016–2019, 2022–present, Canada, broadcasting the AXS version of World Pro-Wrestling)
* Extreme Sports Channel (2023–present, Europe, broadcast World Pro-Wrestling and major shows for various continental markets)

Worldwide:

* NJPW World (streaming service, in partnership with TV Asahi, broadcasting most NJPW shows live, as well as on-demand classic, documentary and anime content, as well as content from other promotions, beginning with promotional partners CMLL's weekly Super Viernes and AEW's weekly Dynamite and Collision shows)
* Triller TV (for Wrestle Kingdom and Dominion LIVE)

## Notes

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1. ^ NJPW has previously held other round-robin tournaments for junior heavyweight tag teams: the Junior Heavyweight Super Grade Tag League in 1996, won by Eddie Guerrero as Black Tiger II and The Great Sasuke; the G1 Junior Tag League in 2001, won by El Samurai and Jyushin Thunder Liger; and the Super J Tag League on November 13, 2010, won by Jado and Gedo.
2. ^ NJPW held the Karl Gotch Cup between 1974 and 1976, a similar style rookie wrestler tournament. In 1989, 1991 and 2002, NJPW held tournaments under the name Young Lion Tournament, which are not considered part of the Young Lion Cup lineage.
3. ^ Originally Tiger Jeet Singh was inducted in this place. However he was later expelled and replaced with Dusty Rhodes.

## See also

[edit]

* Japan portal

* Professional wrestling in Japan
* List of professional wrestling promotions in Japan
* Fire Pro Wrestling

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## External links

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* Wrestling-Titles.com: New Japan Pro-Wrestling

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New Japan Pro-Wrestling

Championships|

| Active|

| Heavyweight|

* IWGP World Heavyweight (reigns)
* IWGP Global Heavyweight (reigns)
* IWGP Tag Team (reigns)

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Junior heavyweight|

* IWGP Junior Heavyweight (reigns)
* IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team (reigns)

Openweight|

* NJPW World Television (reigns)
* NEVER Openweight (reigns)
* NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team (reigns)
* Strong Openweight (reigns)
* Strong Openweight Tag Team (reigns)

Women's|

* IWGP Women's Championship (reigns)
* Strong Women's Championship (reigns)

Former|

* Asia Heavyweight (reigns)
* Asia Tag Team (reigns)
* Greatest 18 Club (reigns)
* IWGP Heavyweight (reigns)
* IWGP Heavyweight (original version) (reigns)
* IWGP Intercontinental (reigns)
* IWGP Third Belt (reigns)
* IWGP U-30 Openweight (reigns)
* IWGP United States (reigns)
* KOPW (reigns)
* J-Crown (reigns)
* British Commonwealth Junior Heavyweight
* NWA World Junior Heavyweight
* NWA World Welterweight
* UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight
* WAR International Junior Heavyweight
* WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight
* WWF Light Heavyweight
* NWA International Junior Heavyweight (reigns)
* NWA North American Tag Team (Los Angeles/Japan version) (reigns)
* NWA World Heavyweight (reigns)
* NWA World Tag Team (reigns)
* NWF Heavyweight (reigns)
* NWF North American (reigns)
* Real World (reigns)
* WCW International World Heavyweight (reigns)
* WWF International Heavyweight (reigns)
* WWF International Tag Team (reigns)
* WWF Junior Heavyweight (reigns)
* WWF North American Heavyweight (reigns)
* WWF World Heavyweight (reigns)
* WWF World Martial Arts (reigns)

Tournaments|

| Active|

* G1 Climax (winners)
* New Japan Cup (winners)
* Best of the Super Juniors (winners)
* World Tag League (winners)
* Super Junior Tag League (winners)
* Super J-Cup (winners)
* Young Lion Cup (winners)

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Video games|

* Wrestle Kingdom
* Wrestle Kingdom 2
* Fire Pro Wrestling World

Partnerships|

| Current|

* All Elite Wrestling
* All Japan Pro Wrestling
* Big Japan Pro Wrestling
* Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
* DDT Pro-Wrestling
* Dragongate
* Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling
* Kyushu Pro-Wrestling
* Major League Wrestling
* Pro Wrestling Noah
* Revolution Pro Wrestling
* Ring of Honor
* Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling
* World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana

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Former|

* American Wrestling Association
* Border City Wrestling
* Catch Wrestling Association
* Full Impact Pro
* Game Changer Wrestling
* Global Force Wrestling
* International Wrestling Enterprise
* Jersey All Pro Wrestling
* K-1
* National Wrestling Alliance
* National Wrestling Federation
* Pride Fighting Championships
* Pro Wrestling Zero1
* The Crash Lucha Libre
* Toryumon Mexico
* Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
* UWF International
* Universal Wrestling Association
* United Wrestling Network
* Championship Wrestling from Hollywood
* WAR
* Westside Xtreme Wrestling
* World Championship Wrestling
* World Class Championship Wrestling
* World Wrestling Association
* World Wrestling Federation

Related companies|

| Owners|

* Amuse Inc. (5%)
* Bushiroad (85%)
* TV Asahi (10%)

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Subsidiaries|

* World Wonder Ring Stardom

Personnel|

| Current|

* List of New Japan Pro-Wrestling personnel

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Former|

* List of former New Japan Pro-Wrestling personnel

Miscellaneous|

* All In
* Asia-Pacific Federation of Wrestling
* Lion's Gate Project
* New Japan Pro-Wrestling World
* Major events
* List of NJoA events
* NJPW Strong
* List of episodes
* Special episodes
* Tiger Mask W
* United Japan Pro-Wrestling

Category

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New Japan Pro-Wrestling events

Current|

* January 4 Tokyo Dome Show (Wrestle Kingdom)
* Wrestle Dynasty
* New Year Dash!!
* Fantastica Mania
* The New Beginning
* NJPW Anniversary Show (49th, 50th)
* New Japan Cup
* Sakura Genesis
* Windy City Riot
* Wrestling Dontaku
* Resurgence
* Best of the Super Juniors
* Dominion
* Forbidden Door
* G1 Climax
* Destruction
* Fighting Spirit Unleashed
* Royal Quest
* King of Pro-Wrestling
* Super Junior Tag League
* Power Struggle
* Historic X-Over (1, 2)
* World Tag League
* All Together
* Battle in the Valley
* Capital Collision
* Strong Style Evolved

Former|

* All Star Junior Festival 2023 (2023)
* All Star Junior Festival USA 2023 (2023)
* Back to the Yokohama Arena (2014)
* Battle Autumn '22 (2022)
* Battle Formation (1996–1997)
* Battle Satellite in Tokyo Dome (1989)
* Burning Spirit (2022)
* Castle Attack (2021)
* CEOxNJPW: When Worlds Collide (2018)
* Do Judge!! (2000)
* Final Dome (1999)
* G1 Climax in Dallas (2019)
* G1 Special in San Francisco (2018)
* G1 Special in USA (2017)
* G1 Supercard (2019)
* Global Wars (2014–2019)
* Global Wars UK (2015–2018)
* Honor Rising: Japan (2016–2019)
* Hyper Battle (2022)
* Independence Day (2023)
* Invasion Tour 2011 (2011)
* Jingu Climax (1999)
* Lion's Gate Project (2016–2018)
* Lonestar Shootout (2022-2023)
* Multiverse (2022-2023)
* NEVER (2010–2012)
* New Japan Cup USA (2020–2021)
* Pyongyang International Sports and Culture Festival for Peace (1995)
* Rumble on 44th Street (2022)
* Sengoku Lord (2019–2020)
* Showdown (2019–2022)
* Strong (2020–2023)
* Strong Style Evolution (1997)
* Summer Struggle in Jingu (2020)
* Summer Struggle in Sapporo (2021)
* Summer Supercard (2019)
* Super J-Cup (1994, 2009, 2016, 2019, 2020)
* The Skydiving-J (1996)
* Ultimate Crush (2003)
* Uprising (2015)
* War of the Worlds (2014–2019)
* WCW/New Japan Supershow (1991–1993)
* World Wrestling Peace Festival (1996)
* Wrestle Grand Slam in MetLife Dome (2021)
* Wrestle Grand Slam in Tokyo Dome (2021)
* Wrestling Hinokuni (2015–2019)
* Wrestling Summit (1990)
* Young Lion Cup (1985–2019)

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New Japan Pro-Wrestling personnel

Wrestlers|

| Heavyweight|

* Bad Dude Tito
* Bad Luck Fale
* Boltin Oleg
* Callum Newman
* Chase Owens
* David Finlay
* Drilla Moloney
* El Phantasmo
* Evil
* Fred Rosser
* Gabe Kidd
* Great-O-Khan
* Hartley Jackson
* Henare
* Hirooki Goto
* Hiroshi Tanahashi
* Hiroyoshi Tenzan
* Jake Lee
* Jon Moxley
* Jorel Nelson
* Konosuke Takeshita
* Mikey Nicholls
* Ren Narita
* Royce Isaacs
* Ryohei Oiwa
* Sanada
* Satoshi Kojima
* Shane Haste
* Shingo Takagi
* Shota Umino
* Taichi
* Togi Makabe
* Tom Lawlor
* Tomoaki Honma
* Tomohiro Ishii
* Toru Yano
* Yoshi-Hashi
* Yota Tsuji
* Yuji Nagata
* Yujiro Takahashi
* Yuya Uemura
* Zack Sabre Jr.

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Junior heavyweight|

* Alex Zayne
* Clark Connors
* Dick Togo
* DKC
* Douki
* El Desperado
* Francesco Akira
* Gedo
* Hiromu Takahashi
* Jado
* Kevin Knight
* Kosei Fujita
* Kushida
* Lio Rush
* Master Wato
* Matt Vandagriff
* Robbie Eagles
* Robbie X
* Rocky Romero
* Ryusuke Taguchi
* Sho
* Taiji Ishimori
* Taka Michinoku
* Templario
* Tiger Mask
* Titán
* TJP
* Yoh
* Yoshinobu Kanemaru

Young Lions|

* Aaron Wolf
* Oskar Leube
* Yuto Nakashima

Women's division|

* AZM
* Mercedes Moné
* Syuri
* Trish Adora
* Viva Van
* Willow Nightingale

Staff|

* Hiro Saito
* Jushin Thunder Liger
* Kazuo Yamazaki
* Kuniaki Kobayashi
* Milano Collection A. T.
* Red Shoes Unno
* Seiji Sakaguchi
* Tony Kozina
* Super Strong Machine
* Takaaki Kidani
* Tiger Hattori
* Wataru Inoue

Stables and tag teams|

* Bishamon
* Bullet Club
* House of Torture
* Tencozy
* The Mighty Don't Kneel
* United Empire
* West Coast Wrecking Crew

Links to related articles

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Bushiroad

Franchises|

* Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
* BanG Dream!
* Shōjo Kageki Revue Starlight
* From Argonavis
* Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road
* D4DJ

Video games|

* BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!
* D4DJ Groovy Mix
* Love Live! School Idol Festival
* Kemono Friends Pavillion
* Shōjo Kageki Revue Starlight: Re LIVE
* The Prince of Tennis Rising Beat
* Tap Logic ～TAP! Luck ＆ Logic～
* Senki Zesshō Symphogear XD Unlimited

Subsidiaries|

* New Japan Pro-Wrestling (85%)
* World Wonder Ring Stardom
* Sanzigen (8.2%)
* Kinema Citrus (31.8%)
* Frontwing (50.625%)

Related|

* Takaaki Kidani
* Harold Meij
* GREE, Inc.
* Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

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Professional wrestling in Japan

Active promotions

Major promotions|

* All Japan Pro Wrestling
* CyberFight
* DDT Pro-Wrestling
* Pro Wrestling Noah
* Dragongate
* New Japan Pro-Wrestling

Women's|

* CyberFight
* Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling
* World Wonder Ring Stardom

Independent promotions|

* Active Advance Pro Wrestling
* Big Japan Pro Wrestling
* Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling-Explosion
* Dradition
* Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling
* Gleat
* Lidet UWF
* G Prowrestling
* Kyushu Pro-Wrestling
* Michinoku Pro Wrestling
* Osaka Pro Wrestling
* Pro-Wrestling Basara
* Pro Wrestling Freedoms
* Pro Wrestling Land's End
* Pro-Wrestling Shi-En
* Pro Wrestling Zero1
* Professional Wrestling Just Tap Out
* Strong Style Pro-Wrestling
* Tenryu Project
* Tokyo Gurentai
* Wrestling of Darkness 666

Women's|

* 2point5 Joshi Pro Wrestling
* Actwres girl'Z
* ChocoPro
* Dream Star Fighting Marigold
* Ice Ribbon
* Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling
* Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling
* Oz Academy
* Pro Wrestling Wave
* Pure-J
* Reina Joshi Puroresu
* Seadlinnng
* Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling
* World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana

Governing bodies and
interpromotional alliances|

| Legitimate|

* Asia-Pacific Federation of Wrestling
* United Japan Pro-Wrestling
* United Wrestling Network

|

Storyline|

* AWA
* International Wrestling Grand Prix
* Global Honored Crown
* New Wrestling Alliance
* Pacific Wrestling Federation

Defunct promotions

Major promotions|

* Fighting Network Rings
* Hustle
* Inoki Genome Federation
* International Wrestling Enterprise
* Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance
* UWF International
* Wrestle-1

Women's|

* All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
* Gaea Japan
* Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling

Independent promotions|

* Apache Pro-Wrestling Army
* Battlarts
* Diamond Ring
* Fighting of World Japan Pro Wrestling
* IWA Japan
* Japan Pro-Wrestling
* Kingdom
* Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi
* Smash
* Super World of Sports
* Tokyo Pro Wrestling
* Toryumon Japan
* Universal Lucha Libre
* Universal Wrestling Federation
* W*ING
* WAR
* Wrestling New Classic

Women's|

* Arsion
* JDStar
* JWP Joshi Puroresu
* NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling
* WNC-Reina

Governing bodies and
interpromotional alliances|

* AWA Superstars of Wrestling
* Global Professional Wrestling Alliance

* Attendance records
* Professional wrestling at the Tokyo Dome
* Puroresu
* Rikidōzan

* v
* t
* e

All Elite Wrestling

Programming|

| Pay-per-view events|

* Revolution
* Dynasty
* Double or Nothing
* All In
* Forbidden Door
* All Out
* WrestleDream
* Full Gear
* Worlds End

|

Television|

* Dynamite
* episodes
* specials
* Collision
* episodes
* Television specials

Former|

* All Access
* Battle of the Belts
* Dark
* episodes
* Dark: Elevation
* episodes
* Rampage
* episodes

Championships|

| Men's|

* World (reigns)
* Unified
* Continental
* International
* TNT (reigns)
* World Tag Team (reigns)
* World Trios

|

Women's|

* Women's World
* TBS

Former|

* FTW

Accomplishments|

* Awards
* Casino matches
* Dynamite Diamond Ring
* Tournaments
* Owen Hart Cup
* Continental Classic

Personnel|

* Tony Khan
* Shahid Khan
* The Elite
* Kenny Omega
* The Young Bucks
* Current roster
* Alumni

Affiliates/partnerships|

| Sister promotion|

* Ring of Honor
* roster
* alumni

|

Current partners|

* Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
* CyberFight
* DDT Pro-Wrestling
* Pro Wrestling Noah
* Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling
* New Japan Pro-Wrestling
* Revolution Pro Wrestling
* World Wonder Ring Stardom

Former partners|

* Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
* National Wrestling Alliance
* Oriental Wrestling Entertainment
* Pro Wrestling Wave
* Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

See also|

* AEW Plus
* All In (2018)
* Daily's Place
* Fight Forever
* Starrcast
* Universal Studios Soundstage 21
* Wednesday Night Wars

Category: All Elite Wrestling

* v
* t
* e

All Japan Pro Wrestling

Championships|

| Active|

| Heavyweight|

* Triple Crown Heavyweight (reigns)
* Gaora TV (reigns)
* World Tag Team (reigns)
* All Asia Tag Team (reigns)
* AJPW TV Six-Man Tag Team

|

Junior Heavyweight|

* World Junior Heavyweight (reigns)

Inactive|

* NWA International Heavyweight
* NWA International Junior Heavyweight
* NWA International Tag Team
* NWA United National
* PWF United States Heavyweight
* PWF World Tag Team
* PWF World Heavyweight

Shared|

* All Asia Heavyweight
* United National Tag Team

Tournaments|

* Champion Carnival
* Jr. Battle of Glory
* Jr. Tag Battle of Glory
* Ōdō Tournament
* World's Strongest Tag Determination League

Personnel|

* Giant Baba
* Keiji Mutoh
* Roster
* Teams and stables

Video games|

* Wrestle Kingdom
* Wrestle Kingdom 2

Miscellaneous|

* 2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus
* All Japan Pro Wrestling TV
* All Together
* Wrestle Kingdom I
* Lucha Fiesta
* United Japan Pro-Wrestling

Partnerships|

| Current|

* Actwres girl'Z
* Funking Conservatory
* Dradition
* Gleat
* Tenryu Project
* National Wrestling Alliance
* New Japan Pro-Wrestling
* Michinoku Pro Wrestling
* Pro Wrestling Land's End
* Pro Wrestling Noah

|

Former|

* American Wrestling Association
* Japan Pro-Wrestling
* Major League Wrestling
* Select NWA territories
* Jim Crockett Promotions
* St. Louis Wrestling Club
* Western States Sports
* Toryumon Mexico
* Wrestle-1
* WWE

* v
* t
* e

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre

Current championships|

| CMLL|

* World Heavyweight
* Reigns
* World Light Heavyweight
* Reigns
* World Middleweight
* Reigns
* World Welterweight
* Reigns
* World Lightweight
* World Tag Team
* Reigns
* World Trios
* Reigns
* World Mini-Estrellas
* World Women's
* World Women's Tag Team
* Japanese Women's
* Arena Coliseo Tag Team

|

Mexican National|

* Heavyweight
* Light Heavyweight
* Welterweight
* Lightweight
* Women's
* Women's Tag Team
* Trios
* Reigns

NWA|

* World Historic Light Heavyweight
* World Historic Middleweight
* World Historic Welterweight

Occidente|

* Heavyweight

Former championships|

* Mexican National Heavyweight Championship
* Mexican National Middleweight Championship
* Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship
* Mexican National Tag Team Championship
* LLA Azteca Championship
* NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship
* NWA World Middleweight Championship
* NWA World Welterweight Championship
* CMLL-Reina International Championship
* CMLL-Reina International Junior Championship

Miscellaneous|

* Roster
* CMLL Universal Championship
* CMLL International Gran Prix

Partnerships|

| Current|

* All Elite Wrestling
* Ice Ribbon
* Lady's Ring
* Major League Wrestling
* New Japan Pro-Wrestling
* Revolution Pro Wrestling
* Ring of Honor

|

Former|

* All Japan Pro Wrestling
* All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
* Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
* International Wrestling Revolution Group
* Lucha Libre Elite
* National Wrestling Alliance
* Reina Joshi Puroresu / WNC-Reina
* The Crash Lucha Libre
* Universal Wrestling Association
* Super World of Sports / WAR
* Toryumon Mexico
* World Wrestling Association

Category

* v
* t
* e

Major League Wrestling

Championships|

| Current|

* World Heavyweight
* National Openweight
* World Middleweight
* World Women's Featherweight
* World Tag Team (reigns)

|

Previous|

* Caribbean Heavyweight
* World Junior Heavyweight

Other accomplishments|

* Battle Riot
* Opera Cup
* Tournaments

Personnel|

* Current
* Former
* Personnel draft

Programming and events|

* MLW Underground TV (2003–2004)
* MLW Fusion (2018–2023)
* MLW Fusion: Alpha (2021)
* MLW Azteca (2022)
* MLW Anthology (2020)
* MLW Underground Wrestling (2023)
* List of events

Partnerships|

| Current|

* New Japan Pro-Wrestling
* Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
* Revolution Pro Wrestling
* Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling

|

Former|

* All Japan Pro Wrestling
* The Crash Lucha Libre
* Dragon Gate
* Impact Wrestling
* International Wrestling Association
* Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
* Oriental Wrestling Entertainment
* Pro Wrestling Noah

* v
* t
* e

Revolution Pro Wrestling

Current Championships|

| Primary|

* British Heavyweight

|

Secondary|

* Cruiserweight

Divisional|

* Tag Team
* Women's

Tournaments|

* British J-Cup
* Great British Tag League

Partnerships|

| Current|

* All Elite Wrestling
* Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
* German Wrestling Federation
* Major League Wrestling
* New Japan Pro-Wrestling

|

Former|

* Global Force Wrestling
* Pro-Wrestling: EVE
* Ring of Honor

Related articles|

* Events

Category

* v
* t
* e

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Championships|

| Men's Division|

* World
* reigns
* X Division
* reigns
* International
* World Tag Team
* reigns

|

Women's (Knockouts) Division|

* Knockouts World
* reigns
* Knockouts World Tag Team
* reigns

Former|

* List

Accomplishments|

* Bound for Glory Series
* Call Your Shot Gauntlet
* Super X Cup
* Tournaments
* Awards
* Hall of Fame
* Triple Crown
* Grand Slam

Specialty matches|

* Feast or Fired
* Full Metal Mayhem
* King/Queen of the Mountain
* Lethal Lockdown
* Monster's Ball
* Ultimate X

Talent|

* Roster
* X Division
* Knockouts
* Former personnel
* A–C
* D–H
* I–M
* N–R
* S–Z

Programming|

| Television|

* Impact!
* special episodes
* move to Monday nights
* Before the Impact
* Xplosion
* Global Impact!
* Reaction
* Epics
* Today
* British Boot Camp

|

Pay-per-view and supercards|

* Pay-per-view events
* One Night Only events (2013–2019)
* Twitch specials (2018–2019)
* TNA+ Monthly Specials (2019–present)

Subsidiaries|

* TNA Home Video
* TNA+
* TNA Knockout Music
* Albums

Parent company|

| Current|

* Anthem Sports & Entertainment

|

Former|

* Panda Energy International

Sister company|

* Invicta Fighting Championships

Partnerships|

| Current|

* WWE (NXT)
* AAA

|

Former|

* All Elite Wrestling
* New Japan Pro-Wrestling
* Alianza Universal De Lucha Libre
* All Japan Pro Wrestling
* Border City Wrestling
* Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
* CWF Mid-Atlantic
* Dragon Gate
* Evolve
* Global Force Wrestling
* House of Hardcore
* Inoki Genome Federation
* IWA-PR
* International Wrestling Revolution Group
* Lucha Underground
* Lucha Libre Elite
* National Wrestling Alliance
* OMEGA Championship Wrestling
* Pro Wrestling Noah
* Reality of Wrestling
* Ring Ka King
* Ring of Honor
* Toryumon Mexico
* The Crash
* WWC Lucha Libre
* World Wrestling League
* Wrestle-1

Video games|

* TNA Wrestling
* TNA Impact!
* TNA Impact!: Cross The Line
* TNA Wrestling Impact!

See also|

* AXS TV
* Fight Network
* Global Wrestling Network
* Impact Zone
* TNA Entertainment, LLC v. Wittenstein

* v
* t
* e

World Wonder Ring Stardom

Championships|

| Current|

| Main|

* World (reigns)
* Wonder
* Goddesses
* Artist
* High Speed

|

Shared|

* IWGP Women's (reigns)
* Strong Women's (reigns)

Divisional|

* Future
* New Blood Tag Team

Formerly
promoted|

* SWA World
* Women of Honor World
* ICW Women's
* EVE International
* AEW Women's
* Diana World

Major events|

| Tournaments|

* Goddesses of Stardom Tag League
* Stardom Cinderella Tournament
* 5★Star Grand Prix

|

Pay-per-views|

* List of major World Wonder Ring Stardom events

Brands|

* New Blood

Personnel|

* Current
* Year-End Awards

Video games|

* Fire Pro Wrestling World

Broadcasting|

* Stardom World
* Tokyo MX
* Nippon TV
* Fighting TV Samurai

Parent company|

* New Japan Pro-Wrestling

Partnerships|

| Current|

* All Elite Wrestling
* Asia-Pacific Federation of Wrestling promotions
* ChocoPro
* Diana
* Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling
* Professional Wrestling Just Tap Out
* Pro Wrestling Wave
* Ring of Honor
* Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling
* Spark Joshi Puroresu of America
* United Japan Pro-Wrestling promotions

|

Former|

* Actwres girl'Z
* Platinum Production
* Pro-Wrestling: EVE
* Seadlinnng
* Shimmer Women Athletes
* Wrestle-1

Category

* v
* t
* e

Jersey All Pro Wrestling

Championships|

* JAPW Heavyweight Championship
* JAPW Light Heavyweight Championship
* JAPW Women's Championship
* JAPW New Jersey State Championship
* JAPW Tag Team Championship

Broadcast|

* Nightline
* MSNBC

Partnerships|

* New Japan Pro Wrestling
* Extreme Championship Wrestling
* Ring of Honor
* Xtreme Pro Wrestling

* v
* t
* e

National Wrestling Alliance

Championships|

| World|

* World's Heavyweight (reigns)
* World Television (reigns)
* World Tag Team (reigns)
* World Junior Heavyweight (reigns)

|

National|

* National Heavyweight (reigns)
* Mid-America Heavyweight (reigns)
* United States Tag Team (reigns)

Women's|

* Women's (reigns)
* Women's Television (reigns)
* Women's Tag Team (reigns)

Programming|

| Current|

* Powerrr

|

Former|

* Primetime Live
* Shockwave
* USA

Pay-per-view and major events|

| Current Signature Live Events|

* Anniversary Show
* Crockett Cup
* Hard Times
* Samhain

|

Pop-Up Events|

* New Years Clash
* By Any Means Necessary
* PowerrrTrip
* 1
* 2
* The World is a Vampire: NWA vs. AAA

Historical events|

* 312
* Alwayz Ready
* Back for the Attack
* Back to the Territories
* Break the Barrier
* EmPowerrr
* Into the Fire
* Looks That Kill
* Nuff Said
* Paranoia
* Shockwave
* Superbowl of Wrestling
* When Our Shadows Fall
* World Wrestling Peace Festival
* Wrestling Summit
* Pay-per-view and closed circuit events (1983–1990)
* Pay-per-view events (2002–2004)

Home bases|

* GPB Studios

Notable acquisitions|

* Houston Wrestling (video library)

Partnerships|

* All Japan Pro Wrestling
* Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
* Ohio Valley Wrestling
* WWE

Current territories|

* NWA Chicago
* NWA Exodus Pro Midwest
* NWA JCP Southeast
* NWA Kross Fire
* NWA New Mexico
* NWA Texas
* NWA World League Wrestling

Former partners|

* All Elite Wrestling
* Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
* Global Force Wrestling
* Pro Wrestling USA
* American Wrestling Association
* National Wrestling Federation
* New Japan Pro-Wrestling
* Ring of Honor
* Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
* United Wrestling Network
* Championship Wrestling from Hollywood
* Combat Zone Wrestling
* World Championship Wrestling

Related|

* All In
* Attendance records
* Billy Corgan
* Current champions
* Former territories
* Hall of Fame
* Hall of Heroes
* NWA All Access
* NWA (stable)
* Pinkie George
* Sam Muchnick
* Wrestling at the Chase

* v
* t
* e

Pro Wrestling Noah

Championships|

| Active|

| Heavyweight|

* GHC Heavyweight (reigns)
* GHC National (reigns)
* GHC Tag Team (reigns)

|

Junior Heavyweight|

* GHC Junior Heavyweight (reigns)
* GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team (reigns)

Openweight|

GHC Hardcore (reigns)

Women's|

GHC Women's (reigns)

Inactive|

* IPW:UK Junior Heavyweight (reigns)

Tournaments|

* N-1 Victory
* Global Tag League
* Global Junior Heavyweight League
* Global Junior Heavyweight Tag League

Parent company|

* CyberAgent
* CyberFight

Video games|

* Wrestle Kingdom

Miscellaneous|

* 2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus
* Pro Wrestling Sem
* Roster
* All Together
* Border Wars
* CyberFight Festival
* Departure
* Destiny
* Final Burning in Budokan
* TripleSEM
* Wrestle Kingdom 16
* Wrestle Kingdom 17
* Wrestle Universe
* United Japan Pro-Wrestling

Sister promotions|

* DDT Pro-Wrestling
* Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling

Partnerships|

| Current|

* All Elite Wrestling
* All Japan Pro Wrestling
* Dragongate
* New Japan Pro-Wrestling
* Pro Wrestling Zero1
* Progress Wrestling
* Dream Star Fighting Marigold
* WWE

|

Former|

* Border City Wrestling
* The Crash Lucha Libre
* International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom
* International Wrestling Revolution Group
* Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
* Major League Wrestling
* Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling
* Global Professional Wrestling Alliance
* Ring of Honor
* Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
* World League Wrestling

Category

* v
* t
* e

Ring of Honor

Personnel|

| Men's division|

* The Beast Mortos
* Bishop Kaun
* Blake Christian
* Brian Cage
* Carlie Bravo
* Christopher Daniels
* Claudio Castagnoli
* Cole Karter
* Dalton Castle
* Daniel Garcia
* Dustin Rhodes
* Eddie Kingston
* Griff Garrison
* Kyle Fletcher
* Lee Johnson
* Lee Moriarty
* Mark Briscoe
* Marshall Von Erich
* Matt Taven
* Mike Bennett
* Nick Comoroto
* Preston Vance
* Ross Von Erich
* Sammy Guevara
* Shane Taylor
* Shawn Dean
* Toa Liona
* Wheeler Yuta

|

Women's division|

* Athena
* Billie Starkz
* Charlette Renegade
* Diamante
* Lady Frost
* Marina Shafir
* Mercedes Martinez
* Rachael Ellering
* Robyn Renegade
* Trish Adora

Other on-air personnel|

* Jerry Lynn
* Paul Wight
* Stokely Hathaway

Stables and tag teams|

* Bang Bang Gang
* The Butcher and the Blade
* The Dark Order
* FTR
* Gates of Agony
* Renegade Twins
* Shane Taylor Promotions
* Undisputed Kingdom
* Matt Taven and Mike Bennett
* Von Erichs

Broadcast team|

* Bobby Cruise
* Caprice Coleman
* Ian Riccaboni
* Lexy Nair

Management|

* Tony Khan

Historic|

* Alumni
* Adam Pearce
* Cary Silkin
* Delirious
* Gabe Sapolsky
* Jim Cornette
* Joe Koff
* Marty Scurll

Programming|

| Television/streaming|

* Honor Club
* Ring of Honor Wrestling

|

Current events|

* Death Before Dishonor (2003–2019, 2021–present)
* Final Battle (2002–present)
* Supercard of Honor (2006–2011, 2013–2019, 2022–present)
* Wrestle Dynasty (2025)

Former events|

* All Star Extravaganza (2002–2016)
* Anniversary Show (2003–2021)
* Best in the World (2006, 2011–2019, 2021)
* The Big Bang! (2010)
* Boiling Point (2012)
* Border/Global Wars (2012–2019)
* Bound By Honor (2019)
* Caged Collision (2009)
* Driven (2007–2008)
* Field of Honor (2014–2016)
* Gateway to Honor (2011, 2020)
* Glory By Honor (2002–2016, 2018–2021)
* Honor for All (2021)
* Honor Rising: Japan (2016–2019)
* Honor Takes Center Stage (2011)
* Man Up (2007)
* New Horizons (2008)
* Respect is Earned (2007–2008)
* Rising Above (2007–2008)
* Showdown in the Sun (2012)
* Summer Supercard (2019)
* Survival of the Fittest (2004–2007, 2009–2012, 2014–2018, 2021)
* Take No Prisoners (2008–2009)
* Undeniable (2007)

Special events|

* All In (2018)
* Crockett Cup (2019)
* The Jay Briscoe Celebration of Life (2023)
* Sea of Honor (2018)
* War of the Worlds (2014–2019)

Championships|

| Primary|

* World
* reigns
* Women's
* reigns

|

Secondary|

* Pure
* reigns
* Television
* reigns
* Women's Pure
* Women's Television

Divisional|

* Tag Team
* reigns
* Six-Man
* reigns

Former|

* Top of the Class Trophy
* reigns
* Women of Honor
* reigns

Other accomplishments|

* Grand Slam
* Hall of Fame
* Honor Rumble
* Survival of the Fittest
* Tournaments
* Pure Tournament
* Tag Wars Tournament
* Top Prospect Tournament
* Triple Crown

Affiliates|

| Sister promotion|

* All Elite Wrestling

|

Current partnerships|

* Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
* New Japan Pro-Wrestling
* World Wonder Ring Stardom

Former partnerships|

* All Japan Pro Wrestling
* Combat Zone Wrestling
* Chikara
* Dragongate
* Frontier Wrestling Alliance
* Full Impact Pro
* Global Professional Wrestling Alliance
* Jersey All Pro Wrestling
* Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
* MCW Pro Wrestling
* National Wrestling Alliance
* Preston City Wrestling
* Pro Wrestling Noah
* Pro Wrestling Zero1
* Ohio Valley Wrestling
* Revolution Pro Wrestling
* Shimmer Women Athletes
* Sinclair Broadcast Group
* The Crash Lucha Libre
* Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Venues|

* 2300 Arena
* Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena
* Manhattan Center
* Universal Studios Soundstage 21

Miscellaneous|

* ROH Dojo
* Women of Honor

* v
* t
* e

The Crash Lucha Libre

Championships and champions|

* The Crash Heavyweight Championship
* The Crash Cruiserweight Championship
* The Crash Junior Championship
* The Crash Tag Team Championship
* The Crash Women's Championship

Shows|

* Anniversary shows (V
* VI
* VII
* VIII
* X)
* WrestleCon
* Crash/FCP
* Crash/MLW
* MLW Azteca/Crash

Partnerships|

| Current|

* Oriental Wrestling Entertainment

|

Former|

* Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
* Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
* Game Changer Wrestling
* Impact Wrestling
* International Wrestling Revolution Group
* Major League Wrestling
* New Japan Pro-Wrestling
* Ring of Honor
* Pro Wrestling Noah

Category

* v
* t
* e

United Wrestling Network

Championships|

* World
* Heritage
* Television
* Arizona State
* Tag Team

Members|

| Current|

* Championship Wrestling

|

Former|

* Combat Zone Wrestling
* Pro Wrestling Zero1
* Women Superstars United

Programming|

| Current|

* Championship Wrestling

|

Former|

* UWN Primetime Live

Partnerships|

| Current|

* Reality of Wrestling

|

Former|

* New Japan Pro-Wrestling
* National Wrestling Alliance

Category:United Wrestling Network

* v
* t
* e

WWE

History|

* McMahon family
* Capitol Wrestling Corporation
* 1980s boom
* Black Saturday
* WrestleMania I
* Ring boy scandal
* Steroids trial
* The Kliq
* Bone Street Krew
* Monday Night Wars
* Montreal Screwjob
* Attitude Era
* The Invasion
* WWF trademark dispute
* Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide
* PG Era
* New Monday Night Wars
* Wednesday Night Wars
* ThunderDome
* Vince McMahon sex trafficking scandal

Programming|

| Weekly in-ring shows|

* Monday Night Raw
* history
* special episodes
* Friday Night SmackDown
* history
* special episodes
* NXT
* Seasons 1–5
* special episodes
* Speed
* Main Event
* Evolve

|

Recap shows|

* Afterburn
* Bottom Line
* This Week in WWE
* Vintage
* Wal3ooha

Seasonal shows
and specials|

* Biography: WWE Legends
* LFG
* Most Wanted Treasures
* Rivals
* Saturday Night's Main Event
* WWE Unreal

Pay-per-view and
WWE Network events|

* Royal Rumble
* Vengeance
* Elimination Chamber
* NXT Stand & Deliver
* WrestleMania
* Backlash
* King of the Ring
* Battleground
* Clash
* Money in the Bank
* Heatwave
* SummerSlam
* Bash in Berlin
* No Mercy
* Bad Blood
* Halloween Havoc
* Crown Jewel
* Survivor Series
* NXT Deadline

Other|

* Broadcasting rights

Home bases|

* UFC Apex
* WWE Performance Center

Former|

* Amway Center
* Full Sail University
* Tropicana Field
* Yuengling Center

Personnel|

* Hall of Fame
* Former personnel
* A–C
* D–H
* I–M
* N–R
* S–Z

Notable rivalries
and matches|

* André the Giant–Hulk Hogan rivalry
* Bret Hart vs. Tom Magee
* Mankind vs. The Undertaker
* The Streak

Affiliated properties|

* WWE 2K
* WWE Books
* WWE Legacy Department
* WWE Music Group
* Discography
* WWE Podcast Network
* WWE Studios
* Tapout

Defunct businesses|

* World Bodybuilding Federation
* The World
* WWE Classics on Demand
* WWE Home Video
* WWE Network
* Canada
* WWE Niagara Falls
* WWE Magazine
* XFL
* 2001
* 2020

Notable acquisitions|

* American Wrestling Association
* Dragon Gate USA
* Evolve
* WWE revival
* Extreme Championship Wrestling
* WWE revival
* Florida Championship Wrestling
* Georgia Championship Wrestling
* Global Wrestling Federation
* Heartland Wrestling Association (video library)
* International Championship Wrestling
* Smoky Mountain Wrestling
* World Championship Wrestling
* history
* Who Killed WCW?
* World Class Championship Wrestling
* World Wrestling Council (video library)

Investments|

* Avid Technology
* Cloud9
* DraftKings
* Drone Racing League
* FloSports
* Marvel Experience
* Phunware
* Premier Lacrosse League
* Tout

Related companies|

| Owners|

* TKO Group Holdings
* Endeavor

|

Sister companies|

* IMG
* Professional Bull Riders
* Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
* Ultimate Fighting Championship

Partnerships|

| Current|

* Game Changer Wrestling
* National Wrestling Alliance
* Pro Wrestling Noah
* Dream Star Fighting Marigold
* Reality of Wrestling
* Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

|

Former|

* All Japan Pro Wrestling
* Deep South Wrestling
* Insane Championship Wrestling
* International Wrestling Association
* Memphis Championship Wrestling
* Michinoku Pro Wrestling
* New Japan Pro-Wrestling
* Ohio Valley Wrestling
* Power Pro Wrestling
* Progress Wrestling
* Smoky Mountain Wrestling
* Super World of Sports
* Ultimate Pro Wrestling
* United States Wrestling Association
* Universal Lucha Libre
* Universal Wrestling Association
* Universal Wrestling Federation
* WAR
* Westside Xtreme Wrestling
* World Wrestling Alliance

Championships|

* Current champions
* Former championships
* Types of championships
* Tag team
* Women's
* World

Accomplishments|

* Diva Search
* Money in the Bank
* Tough Enough
* Awards
* Slammys
* NXT Year-End
* WWE Year-End
* Grand Slam
* Triple Crown
* Battle royals
* André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal
* Royal Rumble
* WrestleMania Women's Battle Royal

Tournaments|

* Brawl for All
* Cruiserweight Classic
* Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic
* King of the Ring
* Mae Young Classic
* Mixed Match Challenge
* NXT Breakout Tournament
* Queen of the Ring
* Sam Muchnick Memorial Tournament

Brand extension|

* Raw
* SmackDown
* NXT
* Evolve
* NXT UK
* 205 Live
* ECW
* Draft
* 2002
* 2004
* 2005
* 2006
* 2007
* 2008
* 2009
* 2010
* 2011
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* April 2019
* October 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2023
* 2024

International|

* Australia
* Canada
* India
* Mexico
* New Zealand
* Saudi Arabia
* UK

Miscellaneous|

* Attendance records
* Titan Towers
* Women in WWE
* WrestleMania Axxess
* WWE action figures
* LJN Wrestling Superstars
* WWE ID and WWE NIL

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* United States
* Japan

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