Heavyweight wrestlers

• Karl Anderson (Chad Allegra)
  Karl Anderson
  Chad Allegra is an American professional wrestler better known by his stage name Karl "Machine Gun" Anderson currently working for New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is currently one half of the IWGP and GHC Tag Team Champions with partner Giant Bernard.-Personal life:Allegra grew up in Asheville,...
  
  
• Lance Archer (Lance Hoyt)
  Lance Hoyt
  Lance Hoyt is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling as Lance Archer. He is best known for his work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a two time NWA World Tag Team Champion with Kid Kash while the title was under the TNA banner...
  
  
• Giant Bernard (Matthew Bloom)
• Hirooki Goto
  Hirooki Goto
  is a Japanese professional wrestler. He has wrestled primarily for New Japan Pro Wrestling since his debut.-Career:Goto attended Kokushikan University, where he took part in freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling. Upon graduating, Goto qualified to join New Japan Pro Wrestling, but left the...
  
  
• Tomoaki Honma
  Tomoaki Honma
  Tomoaki Honma is a freelance Japanese professional wrestler, currently touring with New Japan Pro Wrestling.-Career:Honma trained in the Big Japan dojo before debuting for the promotion in May, 1997...
  
  
• Takashi Iizuka (Takayuki Iizuka)
  Takayuki Iizuka
  , better known by his stage name , is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working for New Japan Pro Wrestling.-Early years :Takayuki Iizuka made his debut for New Japan Pro Wrestling in November 1986, wrestling against Akira Nogami. In June 1989, Iizuka and Hiroshi Hase went to the Soviet...
  
  
• Wataru Inoue
  Wataru Inoue
  is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for New Japan Pro Wrestling.-Professional wrestling career:Inoue made his debut in 1999 on the Japanese independent circuit, then climbed the ladder to get to New Japan Pro Wrestling in 2004...
  
  
• Tomohiro Ishii
• King Fale (Simi Taitoko Fale)
• Satoshi Kojima
  Satoshi Kojima
  is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling. As a singles wrestler, he was the first wrestler to hold NJPW's IWGP Heavyweight Championship and All Japan Pro Wrestling's Triple Crown Championship simultaneously...
  
  
• Togi Makabe (Shinya Makabe)
  Togi Makabe
  , better known by his ring name is a Japanese professional wrestler, trained by and currently performing for New Japan Pro Wrestling , where he is a former IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Tag Team Champion....
  
  
• Kyōsuke Mikami
• MVP (Hassan Assad)
• Yuji Nagata
  Yuji Nagata
  is a Japanese professional wrestler. He was known for his perennial tweener status, currently a solid fan favorite, and his stiff, shoot style wrestling technique....
  
  
• Tetsuya Naitō
  Tetsuya Naitō
  is a Japanese professional wrestler trained by and currently performing for New Japan Pro Wrestling , where he is a former IWGP Tag Team and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion with former partner Yujiro Takahashi, with whom he teamed as No Limit....
  
  
• Shinsuke Nakamura
  Shinsuke Nakamura
  is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist currently working for New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is a former three-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion.-Super Rookie :...
  
  
• Manabu Nakanishi
  Manabu Nakanishi
  is a Japanese professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He currently works for New Japan Pro Wrestling. He is a former IWGP Heavyweight Champion.-Amateur wrestling career:...
  
  
• Kazuchika Okada
  Kazuchika Okada
  is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling. From February 2010 until October 2011, he was on a developmental tour, working for American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the name Okada.-Training and debut:Trained by Último Dragón at his Toryumon...
  
   (TNA
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...
  
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• Hideo Saito (Mitsuhide Hirasawa)
  Mitsuhide Hirasawa
  also known by his ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed with New Japan Pro Wrestling.-New Japan Pro Wrestling :...
  
  
• Super Strong Machine (Junji Hirata)
  Junji Hirata
  is a Japanese professional wrestler who wrestles for the New Japan Pro Wrestling promotion, and currently uses the ring name .-Career:Hirata made his debut in New Japan on August 26, 1978 against Yoshiaki Fujiwara...
  
  
• Minoru Suzuki
  Minoru Suzuki
  is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Suzuki was the co-founder of Pancrase, one of the first mixed martial arts organizations in the world. During the 1990s he was known as one of the best fighters in the Pancrase promotion and was the second King of Pancrase world champion...
  
  
• Yujiro Takahashi
  Yujiro Takahashi
  , also known by his shortened ring name is a Japanese professional wrestler trained by and currently performing for New Japan Pro Wrestling , where he is a former IWGP Tag Team and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion with former partner Tetsuya Naitō, with whom he teamed as No...
  
  
• Hiroshi Tanahashi
  Hiroshi Tanahashi
  is a Japanese professional wrestler who works primarily for New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is the current IWGP Heavyweight Champion in his fifth reign.-Early life:...
  
  
• Masato Tanaka
  Masato Tanaka
  Masato Tanaka is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling in Japan and in Extreme Championship Wrestling in the United States where he was a one-time world champion, having won the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once...
  
  
• Hiroyoshi Tenzan (Hiroyoshi Yamamoto)
  Hiroyoshi Tenzan
  is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works for New Japan Pro Wrestling, and is better known by his ring name . With Satoshi Kojima, in 2008, they won the Real World Tag League in All Japan Pro Wrestling and the G1 Climax Tag League in NJPW becoming in the only tag team which has done...
  
  
• Tama Tonga (Alipate Fifita)
• Takaaki Watanabe
• Toru Yano
  Toru Yano
  , is a Japanese professional wrestler, trained by and currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling , where he is a former IWGP Tag Team Champion.-New Japan Pro Wrestling :...
  
  

Junior Heavyweight wrestlers

• Prince Devitt (Fergal Devitt)
  Fergal Devitt
  Fergal Devitt is an Irish professional wrestler currently contracted by New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is currently in his second reign as the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion...
  
  
• Gedo (Keiji Takayama)
  Keiji Takayama
  Keiji Takayama better known as Gedo , is a long time professional wrestler. He formed a long-lasting tag team with Jado...
  
  
• Jado (Shoji Akiyoshi)
  Shoji Akiyoshi
  , better known by his ring name is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for his work in New Japan Pro Wrestling with his tag team partner Gedo...
  
  
• Kota Ibushi
• Koji Kanemoto
  Koji Kanemoto
  is a professional wrestler. He is of Zainichi Korean descent.-Career:Kanemoto practiced Judo during his high school days and won a few championships as a professional before being recruited by the New Japan Dojo. He debuted in November 1990, wrestling against Michiyoshi Ohara. In March 1992, he...
  
  
• KUSHIDA (Yujiro Kushida)
  Yujiro Kushida
  is a Japanese professional wrestler. He currently competes in New Japan Pro Wrestling as KUSHIDA. He won the ZST Genesis Lightweight Tournament and AJPW's U-30 Tag Team Tournament in 2008 with T28-Early years:...
  
  
• Jushin "Thunder" Liger (Keiichi Yamada)
  Jushin Liger
  , better known as and later, is a Japanese professional wrestler who primarily works for New Japan Pro Wrestling.He has wrestled and beaten many of the top smaller wrestlers in both Japan and the United States, and is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most revolutionary junior...
  
  
• TAKA Michinoku (Takao Yoshida)
• Katsuhiko Nagata
• Davey Richards (Wesley Richards)
  Davey Richards
  Wesley David Richards is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Davey Richards.Richards is currently under contract with Ring of Honor, where he is the current ROH World Champion, but also wrestles for several companies on the independent circuit, including Pro Wrestling...
  
  
• Rocky Romero (John Rivera)
  Rocky Romero
  John R. Rivera is a Cuban American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Rocky Romero and as the fourth incarnation of Black Tiger. As Romero he was one half of the tag team The Havana Pitbulls , along with Ricky Reyes...
  
  
• Ryusuke Taguchi
  Ryusuke Taguchi
  is a Japanese professional wrestler, trained by and currently performing for New Japan Pro Wrestling , where he is a former one-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion and a four-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion....
  
  
• Taichi (Maki Taichiro)
  Taichi Ishikari
  Maki Taichiro is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Taichi Ishikari or simply Taichi, currently performing in New Japan Pro Wrestling...
  
  
• Hiromu Takahashi
• Tiger Mask (Yoshihiro Yamazaki)
  Tiger Mask IV
  Yoshihiro Yamazaki , best known by his ring name Tiger Mask , is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works for New Japan Pro Wrestling. Yamazaki is the fourth wrestler to portray the Tiger Mask image / persona; having used it since 1995...
  
  
• Nobuo Yoshihashi (CMLL
  Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
  Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre is a Lucha Libre-style professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City while running cards in Guadalajara, Puebla and elsewhere in central and southern Mexico...
  
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Stables and tag teams

• Apollo 55 – (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi
  Ryusuke Taguchi
  is a Japanese professional wrestler, trained by and currently performing for New Japan Pro Wrestling , where he is a former one-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion and a four-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion....
  
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• Bad Intentions – (Karl Anderson
  Karl Anderson
  Chad Allegra is an American professional wrestler better known by his stage name Karl "Machine Gun" Anderson currently working for New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is currently one half of the IWGP and GHC Tag Team Champions with partner Giant Bernard.-Personal life:Allegra grew up in Asheville,...
  
   and The Giant Bernard)
• Blue Justice Army
  Blue Justice
  Blue Justice is a professional wrestling stable currently competing in New Japan Pro Wrestling and led by Yuji Nagata.-2009:Blue Justice first formed in September 2009 as it was formed as a branch of New Japan that seeks Justice. Upon the groups formation Nagata and Inoue also began forming a team...
  
  – (King Fale, Wataru Inoue
  Wataru Inoue
  is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for New Japan Pro Wrestling.-Professional wrestling career:Inoue made his debut in 1999 on the Japanese independent circuit, then climbed the ladder to get to New Japan Pro Wrestling in 2004...
  
  , Yuji Nagata
  Yuji Nagata
  is a Japanese professional wrestler. He was known for his perennial tweener status, currently a solid fan favorite, and his stiff, shoot style wrestling technique....
  
   and Super Strong Machine
  Junji Hirata
  is a Japanese professional wrestler who wrestles for the New Japan Pro Wrestling promotion, and currently uses the ring name .-Career:Hirata made his debut in New Japan on August 26, 1978 against Yoshiaki Fujiwara...
  
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• CHAOS
  Chaos (professional wrestling)
  CHAOS is a Japanese professional wrestling stable formed by Shinsuke Nakamura and Toru Yano in New Japan Pro Wrestling.-Formation:In April 2009, Toru Yano turned on Togi Makabe, costing Makabe the match against Shinsuke Nakamura. As Nakamura continued the attack on Makabe, Tomoaki Honma tried to...
  
  – (Gedo
  Keiji Takayama
  Keiji Takayama better known as Gedo , is a long time professional wrestler. He formed a long-lasting tag team with Jado...
  
  , Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii, Jado
  Shoji Akiyoshi
  , better known by his ring name is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for his work in New Japan Pro Wrestling with his tag team partner Gedo...
  
  , Shinsuke Nakamura
  Shinsuke Nakamura
  is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist currently working for New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is a former three-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion.-Super Rookie :...
  
  , Hideo Saito
  Mitsuhide Hirasawa
  also known by his ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed with New Japan Pro Wrestling.-New Japan Pro Wrestling :...
  
  , Masato Tanaka
  Masato Tanaka
  Masato Tanaka is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling in Japan and in Extreme Championship Wrestling in the United States where he was a one-time world champion, having won the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once...
  
  , Yujiro Takahashi
  Yujiro Takahashi
  , also known by his shortened ring name is a Japanese professional wrestler trained by and currently performing for New Japan Pro Wrestling , where he is a former IWGP Tag Team and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion with former partner Tetsuya Naitō, with whom he teamed as No...
  
   and Toru Yano
  Toru Yano
  , is a Japanese professional wrestler, trained by and currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling , where he is a former IWGP Tag Team Champion.-New Japan Pro Wrestling :...
  
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• Great Bash Heel
  Great Bash Heel
  Great Bash Heel, often abbreviated to G・B・H, was a professional wrestling stable, and is currently a tag team, in New Japan Pro Wrestling . It was the top heel group in New Japan Pro Wrestling, before April 2009, when the rest of the group turned on their leader, Togi Makabe, and formed a new...
  
  – (Togi Makabe
  Togi Makabe
  , better known by his ring name is a Japanese professional wrestler, trained by and currently performing for New Japan Pro Wrestling , where he is a former IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Tag Team Champion....
  
   and Tomoaki Honma
  Tomoaki Honma
  Tomoaki Honma is a freelance Japanese professional wrestler, currently touring with New Japan Pro Wrestling.-Career:Honma trained in the Big Japan dojo before debuting for the promotion in May, 1997...
  
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• No Remorse Corps – (Davey Richards
  Davey Richards
  Wesley David Richards is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Davey Richards.Richards is currently under contract with Ring of Honor, where he is the current ROH World Champion, but also wrestles for several companies on the independent circuit, including Pro Wrestling...
  
   and Rocky Romero
  Rocky Romero
  John R. Rivera is a Cuban American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Rocky Romero and as the fourth incarnation of Black Tiger. As Romero he was one half of the tag team The Havana Pitbulls , along with Ricky Reyes...
  
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• Suzuki Army – (Lance Archer
  Lance Hoyt
  Lance Hoyt is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling as Lance Archer. He is best known for his work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a two time NWA World Tag Team Champion with Kid Kash while the title was under the TNA banner...
  
  , Minoru Suzuki
  Minoru Suzuki
  is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Suzuki was the co-founder of Pancrase, one of the first mixed martial arts organizations in the world. During the 1990s he was known as one of the best fighters in the Pancrase promotion and was the second King of Pancrase world champion...
  
  , Taichi
  Taichi Ishikari
  Maki Taichiro is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Taichi Ishikari or simply Taichi, currently performing in New Japan Pro Wrestling...
  
   and TAKA Michinoku)

Announcers

• Milano Collection A.T. (Akihito Terui)
• Kimihiko Ozaki

Native

• Akebono (Akebono Tarō)
  Akebono Taro
  is a retired American born-Japanese sumo wrestler from Waimānalo, Hawaii. Joining the professional sport in Japan in 1988, he was trained by pioneering Hawaiian sumo wrestler Takamiyama and rose swiftly up the rankings, reaching the top division in 1990...
  
  
• AKIRA (Akira Nogami)
  Akira Nogami
  is a Japanese professional wrestler and actor, currently working for Yoshihiro Tajiri's Smash promotion as AKIRA.-New Japan Pro Wrestling :...
  
  
• Akiya Anzawa
• Masahiro Chono
  Masahiro Chono
  , is a Japanese professional wrestler. He primarily wrestles for New Japan Pro Wrestling , but has also made appearances for the now defunct World Championship Wrestling, as a member of the New World Order. Chono was also known as Mister Black Jack when he first started as a villain. He is a...
  
  
• Riki Chōshū (Mitsuo Yoshida)
  Riki Choshu
  Mitsuo Yoshida , better known by his stage name Riki Chōshū , is a Korean-Japanese professional wrestler who is most known for his longtime work in New Japan Pro Wrestling as a wrestler and a booker...
  
  
• Super Delfin (Hiroto Wakita)
• Último Dragón (Yoshihiro Asai)
• Tatsumi Fujinami
  Tatsumi Fujinami
  is a Japanese professional wrestler who is famous for his gimmick as "The Dragon." He is the one who is credited for inventing the Dragon Sleeper and the Dragon Suplex...
  
  
• Kazuyuki Fujita
  Kazuyuki Fujita
  is a Japanese professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and a former amateur wrestler. He has fought in mixed martial arts promotions including PRIDE, K-1 and currently fighting in Sengoku....
  
  
• Yoshiaki Fujiwara
  Yoshiaki Fujiwara
  is a Japanese actor, and professional wrestler who has worked for New Japan Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE, and UWF.-New Japan Pro Wrestling and Universal Wrestling Federation :...
  
  
• Masakatsu Funaki
  Masakatsu Funaki
  , is a Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler who wrestled in New Japan Pro Wrestling, PWFG, as well as the UWF. He is currently performing at All Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is one half of the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Champions, along with Keiji Mutoh...
  
  
• Tatsutoshi Goto
  Tatsutoshi Goto
  is a Japanese professional wrestler. He competed primarily in WAR and New Japan Pro Wrestling using the name "T2000 Machine". He also briefly competed in WCW as part of the nWo Japan.-Career:...
  
  
• Taiji Ishimori
  Taiji Ishimori
  is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for Pro Wrestling NOAH as well as making appearances for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración through a NOAH/AAA working relationship.-Professional wrestling career:...
  
  
• Hiroshi Hase
• Shinya Hashimoto
  Shinya Hashimoto
  , was a Japanese professional wrestler. Along with Masahiro Chono and Keiji Mutoh, Hashimoto was dubbed one of the "Three Musketeers" that began competing in New Japan Pro Wrestling in the mid 1980s and dominated the promotion in the 1990s....
  
  
• Antonio Inoki
  Antonio Inoki
  is a Japanese professional wrestling promoter and retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist who now resides between New York City and Tokyo. He was also the founder and former owner of New Japan Pro Wrestling before selling his controlling share in the promotion to Yukes...
  
  
• Kendo Ka Shin (Tokimitsu Ishizawa)
• Masahito Kakihara
• W*ING Kanemura (Yukihiro Kanemura)
  Kouhiro Kanemura
  is a Zainichi-Korean professional wrestler, better known by the ring name . He is also known as W*ING Kanemura.He is best known for his death matches in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and Big Japan Pro Wrestling. He has also wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling...
  
  
• Toshiaki Kawada
  Toshiaki Kawada
  is a Japanese professional wrestler who is most known for his work in All Japan Pro Wrestling. In 2005, he started freelancing in other promotions....
  
  
• Kenta Kobashi
  Kenta Kobashi
  Not to be confused with his protégé Kenta Kobayashi is a Japanese professional wrestler currently under contract to Pro Wrestling Noah. He worked for All Japan Pro Wrestling from 1988–2000, where he became one of the promotion's top stars....
  
  
• Osamu Kido
  Osamu Kido
  is a Japanese professional wrestler that wrestled for New Japan Pro Wrestling.　He participated in the foundation of New Japan of 1972 and the foundation ofUWF in 1984...
  
  
• Kengo Kimura (Seiei Kimura)
  Kengo Kimura
  Seiei Kimura is a retired Japanese professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Kengo Kimura and for his many years working for New Japan Pro Wrestling in Japan.-Japan Wrestling Association :...
  
  
• Shiro Koshinaka
  Shiro Koshinaka
  is a Japanese professional wrestler who has competed in All Japan Pro Wrestling, New Japan Pro Wrestling and Wrestle Association "R" during the 1980s and 1990s...
  
  
• Shunji Kosugi
  Shunji Kosugi
  , is a retired Japanese professional wrestler, who was based in New Japan Pro Wrestling.-Career:Shunji Kosugi made his debut in February 1981. He was known for his technical prowess in the ring, influenced by Karl Gotch. He was the last man to defeat Satoru Sayama, before Sayama became Tiger Mask...
  
  
• Akira Maeda
  Akira Maeda
  is a retired Japanese professional wrestler, also known as Kwik-kik-Lee for his time on the British Wrestling show World of Sport. He helped develop the shoot-style of professional wrestling during the late 1980s....
  
  
• Mitsuharu Misawa
  Mitsuharu Misawa
  was a Japanese professional wrestler. He made his professional debut on August 21, 1981 for All Japan Pro Wrestling . From 1984 until 1990, Misawa wrestled as the second generation Tiger Mask, as All Japan Pro Wrestling had purchased the rights of the Tiger Mask gimmick from New Japan Pro Wrestling...
  
  
• Keiji Mutoh
  Keiji Mutoh
  is a Japanese professional wrestler who first gained international fame in the National Wrestling Alliance. He is mostly known for his work as The Great Muta in New Japan Pro Wrestling during the 1990s, but he has also competed in United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Taiwan...
  
  
• Mitsuya Nagai
• Hiroshi Nagao
• Masayuki Naruse
  Masayuki Naruse
  is a Japanese professional wrestler and Professional mixed martial artist.-Career:Naruse debuted in Fighting Network RINGS in 1992 where he was displayed as a scrappy junior heavyweight willing to take on opponents twice his size. He and other RINGS wrestlers made the transition to mixed martial...
  
  
• Osamu Nishimura
  Osamu Nishimura
  Osamu Nishimura is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for All Japan Pro Wrestling. Nishimura formerly worked for New Japan Pro Wrestling and MUGA World Pro Wrestling.-Early years :...
  
  
• Michiyoshi Ohara
  Michiyoshi Ohara
  Michiyoshi Ohara is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, best known for his work in New Japan Pro Wrestling where he wrestled from 1990 to 2004 where he enjoyed success winning the IWGP Tag Team Championship with Tatsutoshi Goto in 1999....
  
  
• Okumura (Shigeo Okumura)
  Shigeo Okumura
  Shigeo Okumura is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and is currently billed simply as Okumura. Okumura originally worked for Tokyo Pro Wrestling and later on All Japan Pro Wrestling in Japan but...
  
  
• Shinjiro Otani
• Akitoshi Saito
  Akitoshi Saito
  is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works for Pro Wrestling Noah.-Before pro wrestling:Before pro wrestling, Akitoshi Saito was trained in karate by Masashi Aoyagi. Saito seconded Aoyagi in his matches against Atsushi Onita in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling in 1989...
  
  
• Hiro Saito
  Hiro Saito
  Hiroyuki Saito is a professional wrestler best known by the shortened name of .-Career:Hiro debuted in 1978 in New Japan Pro Wrestling. In May 1985, he defeated The Cobra to win the WWF Junior Heavyweight Championship only to lose back to him 2 months later...
  
  
• Masa Saito
  Masa Saito
  is a former Japanese professional wrestler better known as Mr. Saito or . He wrestled for several years in various promotions operated by the National Wrestling Alliance . He later joined the World Wrestling Federation , where he teamed with Mr. Fuji to hold the World Tag Team Championship twice...
  
  
• Seiji Sakaguchi
  Seiji Sakaguchi
  is a retired Japanese professional wrestler who was a mainstay of New Japan Pro Wrestling and also competed for the World Wide Wrestling Federation and the National Wrestling Alliance....
  
  
• Naoki Sano
  Naoki Sano
  is a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist. He currently goes by the name Takuma Sano.-New Japan Pro Wrestling :...
  
  
• Kensuke Sasaki
  Kensuke Sasaki
  is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently wrestles for various promotions through his own agency, Kensuke Office. He is the first of two men ever to hold all 3 of puroresu's major heavyweight titles , the other being Yoshihiro Takayama.-Early years :Kensuke Sasaki...
  
  
• Great Sasuke (Masanori Murakawa)
• Katsuyori Shibata
  Katsuyori Shibata
  is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. In professional wrestling, he is known for his hard hitting offense and his realistic bouts.-New Japan Pro Wrestling :...
  
  
• Kenzo Suzuki
  Kenzo Suzuki
  Kenzo Suzuki is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is perhaps best known for his appearances with New Japan Pro Wrestling and in the United States with World Wrestling Entertainment...
  
  
• Nobuhiko Takada
  Nobuhiko Takada
  Nobuhiko Takada is a Japanese mixed martial arts fighter and professional wrestler. He is best known for helping to popularize shoot-style professional wrestling, as one of the biggest stars of the Universal Wrestling Federation and Union of Wrestling Force International in the '80s and '90s. He...
  
  
• Yoshihiro Takayama
  Yoshihiro Takayama
  is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Takayama is well known for his ability to endure massive amounts of punishment, especially after his fight at PRIDE 21 against Don Frye...
  
  
• Katsushi Takemura
• Minoru Tanaka
• Genichiro Tenryu
  Genichiro Tenryu
  Genichiro Tenryu , real name Genichiro Shimada , is a Japanese professional wrestler. At age 13, he entered sumo wrestling and stayed there for 13 years, after which he turned to Western-style professional wrestling...
  
  
• Takashi Uwano
• Kazuo Yamazaki
  Kazuo Yamazaki
  Kazuo Yamazaki is a former Japanese professional wrestler, who is known for his work in New Japan Pro Wrestling and UWF International.-New Japan Pro Wrestling :...
  
  
• Ryushi Yanagisawa
• Tadao Yasuda
  Tadao Yasuda
  Tadao Yasuda is a retired sumo and professional wrestler from Ōta, Tokyo, Japan. He competed in sumo from 1979 to 1992, under the shikona of Takanofuji, achieving the rank of komusubi, and afterwards turned to professional wrestling, in which he competed from 1994 to 2011.-Sumo career:He made his...
  
  
• Yoshiaki Yatsu
  Yoshiaki Yatsu
  Yoshiaki Yatsu is a retired Japanese professional wrestler, amateur wrestler and mixed martial artist.-1976 Summer Olympics:...
  
  

Outside wrestlers

• Abdullah The Butcher (Lawrence Shreeve)
  Abdullah the Butcher
  Lawrence Robert "Larry" Shreve best known as Abdullah the Butcher, and also at times The Madman from the Sudan, is a semi-retired Canadian professional wrestler known as one of the most brutal or "hardcore" professional wrestlers of all-time...
  
  
• American Dragon (Bryan Danielson)
  Bryan Danielson
  Bryan Danielson is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE where he wrestles on its SmackDown brand as Daniel Bryan, and currently holds the SmackDown Money in the Bank briefcase, which enables him to have a World Heavyweight Championship match at any time of his choosing...
  
  
• Arn Anderson (Martin Lunde)
  Arn Anderson
  Martin Anthony Lunde better known by his ring name Arn Anderson, is a former American professional wrestler and author. His career has been highlighted by his alliances with Ric Flair and various members of the wrestling stable, The Four Horsemen, in the NWA/WCW...
  
  
• Atsushi Aoki
  Atsushi Aoki
  Atsushi Aoki is a Japanese professional wrestler working for the Japanese wrestling promotion Pro Wrestling Noah, where he is one half of the reigning GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Aoki made his professional wrestling debut in 2005 and has worked primarily for NOAH where he was part...
  
  
• Averno (Renato Ruíz)
• Sangre Azteca
  Sangre Azteca
  Sangre Azteca is a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre . Sangre Azteca's real name is not reveal in public, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the...
  
  
• Steve Austin (Steven Williams)
  Stone Cold Steve Austin
  Steve Austin , better known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, is an American film and television actor and retired professional wrestler...
  
  
• Bob Backlund
  Bob Backlund
  Robert Lee "Bob" Backlund is an American professional wrestler with an in ring career that spanned over 30 years. Over that time, he went on to become a two-time WWWF/WWF Champion...
  
  
• Chris Sabin
  Chris Sabin
  Joshua Harter is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Chris Sabin. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where he currently teams with Alex Shelley as The Motor City Machine Guns.After being trained by Scott D'Amore, Sabin debuted in 2000 for...
  
  
• Alex Shelley
  Alex Shelley
  Patrick Martin , is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Alex Shelley. He wrestles for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he currently teams with Chris Sabin as The Motor City Machine Guns. He previously gained fame on the independent circuit, working most notably for...
  
  
• The Barbarian (Sione Vailahi)
  Sione Vailahi
  Sione Havea Vailahi is a professional wrestler best known in wrestling as The Barbarian.-Life and career:Born and raised in Tonga, Sione was one of five teenagers sent by the King of Tonga to Japan to study Sumo wrestling in the mid 1970s. Tonga Fifita was one of the other teenagers...
  
  
• Bam Bam Bigelow (Scott Bigelow)
• Black Tiger (Mark Rocco)
  Mark Rocco
  Mark Hussey is a retired English professional wrestler who competed for All-Star Wrestling as Mark "Rollerball" Rocco and as the original masked Black Tiger in New Japan Pro Wrestling during the 1970s and 80s...
  
  
• Black Tiger II (Eddie Guerrero)
  Eddie Guerrero
  Eduardo Gory "Eddie" Guerrero was a Mexican-American professional wrestler born into the Guerrero wrestling family. He wrestled in Mexico and Japan for several major professional wrestling promotions...
  
  
• Black Tiger III (César González)
• Black Tiger IV (John Rivera)
  Rocky Romero
  John R. Rivera is a Cuban American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Rocky Romero and as the fourth incarnation of Black Tiger. As Romero he was one half of the tag team The Havana Pitbulls , along with Ricky Reyes...
  
  
• Blue Wolf (Dolgorsürengiin Serjbüdee)
  Dolgorsürengiin Serjbüdee
  Dolgorsürengiin Serjbüdee is a Mongolian professional wrestler who wrestled for New Japan Pro Wrestling. He goes by the ring name Blue Wolf.-Career:Dolgorsürengiin Serjbüdee is the brother of Dolgorsürengiin Sumiyaabazar, a high ranking Mongolian...
  
  
• Bruiser Brody (Frank Goodish)
• Chyna (Joanie Laurer)
• Consequences Creed (Austin Watson)
• Dr. Wagner, Jr. (Juan González)
  Dr. Wagner, Jr.
  Juan Manuel González Barrón is a Mexican Luchador Enmascarado who is best known under the ring name Dr. Wagner, Jr.. As Dr. Wagner, Jr...
  
  
• Ric Flair (Richard Fliehr)
  Ric Flair
  Richard Morgan Fliehr is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Ric Flair. Also known as "The Nature Boy", Flair is one of the most well-known professional wrestlers in the world....
  
  
• Rick Fuller
  Rick Fuller
  Richard Fuller is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances World Championship Wrestling. He would later be featured in several video games including WCW Nitro and WCW/NWO Thunder....
  
  
• Héctor Garza (Héctor Solano)
  Héctor Garza
  Héctor Solano Segura is a Mexican professional wrestler, known by his ring name Héctor Garza, who is currently working for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración and Perros del Mal Producciones...
  
  
• André the Giant (André Roussimoff)
  André the Giant
  André René Roussimoff , best known as André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. His best remembered acting role was that of Fezzik, the giant in the film The Princess Bride...
  
  
• Karl Gotch (Karl Istaz)
• Tony Halme
  Tony Halme
  Tony Christian Halme was a member of the Finnish Parliament, representing the True Finns party. He was also known by the pseudonym Viikinki he used while appearing in the Finnish version of the TV game show Gladiators in the 1990s...
  
  
• Stan Hansen (John Hansen, Jr.)
  Stan Hansen
  John Stanley Hansen, Jr. is an American former professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Stan Hansen. As a wrestler, Hansen was well known for his stiff wrestling style, which he attributes to poor eyesight, as he is nearly blind without glasses...
  
  
• Jeff Hardy
  Jeff Hardy
  Jeffrey Nero "Jeff" Hardy is an American professional wrestler, who is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where he is a former two–time TNA World Heavyweight Champion...
  
  
• Bret Hart
  Bret Hart
  Bret Hart is a Canadian on-screen personality, writer, actor and Semi-retired professional wrestler. Like others in the Hart wrestling family, Hart has an amateur wrestling background, including wrestling at Ernest Manning High School and Mount Royal College...
  
  
• Owen Hart
  Owen Hart
  Owen James Hart was a Canadian professional and amateur wrestler who worked for several promotions including Stampede Wrestling, New Japan Pro Wrestling , World Championship Wrestling , and most notably, the World Wrestling Federation , where he wrestled under both his own name, and ring name The...
  
  
• Salman Hashimikov
  Salman Hashimikov
  Salman Hashimikov, also spelled Hasimikov , is a prominent Soviet heavyweight wrestler. A Chechen from Russia, he holds two European and four World Championship gold medals in freestyle wrestling...
  
  
• Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea)
  Hulk Hogan
  Terrance Gene "Terry" Bollea , better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, is an American Semi-retired professional wrestler, actor, television personality, and musician currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ....
  
  
• Brian Kendrick
  Brian Kendrick
  Brian David Kendrick is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under his real name. Before joining TNA he spent several years wrestling for World Wrestling Entertainment, where he wrestled under his name, as Spanky, and finally as "The" Brian Kendrick...
  
  
• Super Liger (Chris Irvine)
  Chris Jericho
  Christopher Keith Irvine , better known by his ring name Chris Jericho, is an inactive Canadian-American professional wrestler, musician, songwriter, radio personality, television host, actor, author, and dancer...
  
  
• Low Ki (Brandon Silvestry)
  Low Ki
  Brandon Silvestry is an American professional wrestler. He is best known under his ring names Low Ki, Senshi in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and Kaval in World Wrestling Entertainment. He is a former one-time PWG World Champion and a former ROH Champion...
  
  
• Dynamite Kid (Thomas Billington)
  Dynamite Kid
  Thomas Wilton Billington , best known by the ring name Dynamite Kid, is a retired British professional wrestler who competed in the World Wrestling Federation, Stampede Wrestling, All Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling in the mid- to late-1980s...
  
  
• Brock Lesnar
  Brock Lesnar
  Brock Edward Lesnar is an American mixed martial artist, actor and a former professional and amateur wrestler. He is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion and is ranked the No.5 Heavyweight in the world by Sherdog...
  
  
• Christopher Daniels / Curry Man (Daniel Covell)
  Christopher Daniels
  Daniel Christopher Covell is an American professional wrestler, best known in the United States by his ring name "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels. He is also known for performing under the ring name Curry Man. He is currently under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , while also...
  
  
• Dean Malenko (Dean Simon)
  Dean Malenko
  Dean Simon is a retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Dean Malenko. He is currently signed to WWE working as a road agent. He is best known for his time with Extreme Championship Wrestling , New Japan Pro Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling...
  
  
• Naomichi Marufuji
  Naomichi Marufuji
  is a Japanese professional wrestler who competes for Pro Wrestling Noah, with occasional appearances in other professional wrestling promotions like Ring of Honor, All Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling, among others. Marufuji is the first of only two Grand Slam Champion in Pro...
  
  
• Máscara Dorada
  Mascara Dorada
  Máscara Dorada is a Mexican Luchador Enmascarado . Máscara Dorada's real name has not been officially documented, a tradition in Mexican Lucha Libre where masked wrestler's real names often are not a matter of public record...
  
  
• Mephisto
  Mephisto (wrestler)
  Mephisto , whose birth name is unknown, is a Mexican professional wrestler or Luchador currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre . Mephisto is the son of Luchador Astro Rey/Kahoz and has previously worked both as Astro Rey Jr. and Kahoz Jr. but has been most successful as Mephisto...
  
  
• Místico (Luis Urive)
  Místico
  Luis Ignascio Urive Alvirde is a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE, working on its SmackDown brand under the name Sin Cara...
  
  
• Dick Murdoch
  Dick Murdoch
  Hoyt Richard "Dick" Murdoch was an American professional wrestler.-Professional wrestling career:A second-generation wrestler, the son of 1950s Texas wrestler Frankie Hill Murdoch, Dick Murdoch grew up with fellow second-generation wrestlers Dory Funk, Jr. and Terry Funk, watching their fathers...
  
  
• Jim Neidhart
  Jim Neidhart
  James Henry "Jim" Neidhart is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in the 1980s and 1990s in the World Wrestling Federation as Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart. Jim is the father of WWE Diva Natalya...
  
  
• Scott Norton
  Scott Norton
  Scott Michael Norton is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling.-Before wrestling:...
  
  
• NOSAWA Rongai (Kazushige Nosawa)
  Kazushige Nosawa
  , better known by his ring names NOSAWA and NOSAWA Rongai, is a Japanese freelance professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in All Japan Pro Wrestling and various independent promotions.-Career:...
  
  
• Kenny Omega (Tyson Smith)
• Pegasus Kid / Wild Pegasus (Chris Benoit)
  Chris Benoit
  Christopher Michael "Chris" Benoit was a Canadian professional wrestler whose career and life ended in a murder–suicide...
  
  
• Daniel Puder
  Daniel Puder
  Daniel Puder is an American professional mixed martial artist, who is currently undefeated in MMA competition, holding a a record of eight wins and zero losses...
  
  
• Jimmy Rave (James Guffey)
  Jimmy Rave
  James Guffey is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Jimmy Rave. He is best known for working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling...
  
  
• Billy Robinson
  Billy Robinson
  Billy Robinson is a British professional wrestler and catch wrestling instructor. Robinson was well known in Japan where he has trained mixed martial arts fighters in catch wrestling...
  
  
• Robert Roode
• Rick Rude (Richard Rood)
• Sabu (Terry Brunk)
  Sabu (wrestler)
  Terry Michael Brunk , better known by his ring name Sabu, is an American professional wrestler best known for his extreme wrestling style...
  
  
• El Samurai (Osamu Matsuda)
  Osamu Matsuda
  is a Japanese professional wrestler who is best known for his work in New Japan Pro Wrestling, and is better known by his stage name El Samurai.-Early years :...
  
  
• Giant Silva (Dalip Singh)
• Giant Silva (Paulo César da Silva)
  Giant Silva
  Paulo César da Silva , better known by his ring name Giant Silva, is a former Brazilian basketball player and mixed martial artist and current professional wrestler...
  
  
• La Sombra
  La Sombra (wrestler)
  La Sombra is a Mexican luchador enmascarado . La Sombra's real real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans...
  
  
• James Storm (James Black)
  James Storm
  James Allen Cox is an American professional wrestler who competes under the ring name "The Cowboy" James Storm. Since 2002, Storm has been employed by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he, along with A.J...
  
  
• Tiger Jeet Singh (Jagjit Singh)
  Tiger Jeet Singh
  Jagjit Singh Hans is a semi-retired professional wrestler, known better by his ring name Tiger Jeet Singh. He wrestled as a crazed heel, coming to the ring with a sword in his mouth . Singh wrestled in Japan for 22 years...
  
  
• Davey Boy Smith (David Smith)
  Davey Boy Smith
  Davey Boy Smith was a British professional wrestler, better known as "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith, who was born in Golborne in North West England, United Kingdom. Smith is known for his appearances with Stampede Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling...
  
  
• Rick Steiner (Robert Rechsteiner)
  Rick Steiner
  Robert Rechsteiner is an American professional wrestler, better known under his ring name Rick Steiner.Steiner is best known for his tenure with World Championship Wrestling, where he was an eight time World Tag Team Champion...
  
  
• Scott Steiner (Scott Rechsteiner)
  Scott Steiner
  Scott Carl Rechsteiner is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Scott Steiner. Steiner is perhaps best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling alongside his older brother Rick as the Steiner Brothers and as a member of the New World Order...
  
  
• Sting (Steve Borden)
  Sting (wrestler)
  Steven James "Steve" Borden , better known by his ring name Sting, is an American semi-retired professional wrestler, currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling...
  
  
• Strong Man (Jon Andersen)
  Jon Andersen
  Jon Andersen Reel, normally referred to simply as Jon Andersen is an American bodybuilder, strongman competitor and professional wrestler. Anderson currently splits his time between working for Pro Wrestling Revolution in California and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre in Mexico...
  
  
• TAJIRI (Yoshihiro Tajiri)
  Yoshihiro Tajiri
  , is a Japanese professional wrestler, perhaps best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment. He is currently competing in SMASH as TAJIRI.-Early years :...
  
  
• Takao Omori
  Takao Omori
  is a Japanese semi-retired professional wrestler, currently competing for New Japan Pro Wrestling. He has formerly competed in All Japan Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Noah and Pro Wrestling Zero1.-All Japan Pro Wrestling :...
  
  
• Terry Taylor (Paul Taylor III)
  Terry Taylor
  Terry Taylor , is an American retired professional wrestler best known for his time in the National Wrestling Alliance, World Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation...
  
  
• Travis Tomko
  Travis Tomko
  Travis David Tomko is an American professional wrestler, known by his ring name Tomko, who most recently worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he previously was a member of Christian's Coalition and the Angle Alliance and often worked alongside A.J. Styles. He was also notable for his...
  
  
• Último Guerrero
  Último Guerrero
  Último Guerrero is a Mexican currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre , where he is also part of the booking committee and former CMLL World Heavyweight Championship...
  
  
• Rob Van Dam (Robert Szatkowski)
  Rob Van Dam
  Robert Alexander "Rob" Szatkowski , better known by his ring name Rob Van Dam , is an American professional wrestler and actor who is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ....
  
  
• Big Van Vader (Leon White)
• Road Warrior Animal (Joseph Laurinaitis)
  Road Warrior Animal
  Joseph Aaron "Joe" Laurinaitis is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring names, Road Warrior Animal and Road Warrior...
  
  
• Road Warrior Hawk (Michael Hegstrand)
  Road Warrior Hawk
  Michael James Hegstrand was an American professional wrestler. He is best remembered as Road Warrior Hawk, one half of the tag team known as the Road Warriors or The Legion of Doom , with Road Warrior Animal.-Early life:While living in Chicago, Hegstrand met Joe Lauranaitis, who would be later...
  
  
• Barry Windham
  Barry Windham
  Barry Clinton Windham is an American semi-retired professional wrestler and the son of wrestler Blackjack Mulligan. He is best known for his appearances with the National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling ....