Ryusuke Taguchi

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

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Gender

Male

Birthday

15-Apr-1979

Age

(47 years old)

Place of Birth

Iwanuma, Miyagi, Japan

Also Known As

Masked Horse
Super Strong Machine No. 69
Taguchi
Pro-Wrestler Sengoku Enbu
Ginbae Mask
Hip Togo
Brahman Ryusuke

Ryusuke Taguchi

Biography

Ryusuke Taguchi is a Japanese professional wrestler who debuted in 2002 and has spent his entire career with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). After competing in several sports growing up, including amateur wrestling in college, he joined the NJPW Dojo and developed into one of the promotion's most accomplished junior heavyweights, becoming a two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, seven-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion, one-time CMLL World Welterweight Champion, and winner of the 2012 Best of the Super Juniors. He also won the J Sports Crown Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Tournament in 2010 and 2011, received the Tokyo Sports Best Bout Award for his 2010 tag team match with Prince Devitt against Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi, and was ranked No. 102 in the 2015 PWI 500. Taguchi is perhaps best known for reinventing himself as the eccentric "Funky Weapon," adopting a disco-inspired persona complete with colorful gear, comedy, and his signature post-match dance. Despite the lighthearted gimmick, he has remained a fixture of NJPW's junior heavyweight division for more than two decades, forming successful teams with wrestlers including Prince Devitt as Apollo 55, Ricochet as Funky Future, and Master Wato as Six or Nine, while also leading the fan-favorite Taguchi Japan stable.

Credits

NJPW Invasion Attack 2013 (2013) Character: N/A
Invasion Attack was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event aired domestically as a regular pay-per-view (PPV) and internationally as an internet pay-per-view (iPPV). The event was headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi defending his IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against rival Kazuchika Okada.

NJPW Best of the Super Jr. XXI - Day 1 (2014) Character: N/A
The Best of the Super Juniors (often abbreviated BOSJ) is an annual professional wrestling tournament held by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), typically in May or June. The wrestlers in the tournament are typically junior heavyweight wrestlers from promotions all over the world. NJPW has held 24 Super Juniors tournaments. Two wrestlers have won the tournament three times, Jushin Liger and Koji Kanemoto, while only one wrestler has won the tournament in two consecutive years as Tiger Mask IV won the tournament in both 2004 and 2005. Liger has participated in the most tournaments as he has wrestled in all tournaments except the 1995 and 2000 tournaments. His participation in the 2014 tournament will mark his 23rd Super Junior tournament.

NJPW Destruction In Okayama (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Destruction in Okayama (2015) is a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event is scheduled to take place on September 23, 2015, in Okayama, Okayama at the Momotaro Arena. The event will feature nine matches, four of which will be contested for championships. It will be the tenth event under the Destruction name.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 1 (2007) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestle Kingdom I was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event co-produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling that took place on January 4, 2007, at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, marking the 16th January 4 Tokyo Dome Show and the first under the Wrestle Kingdom name, and was headlined by Keiji Muto & Masahiro Chono vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima in a Tag Team Match.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom III (2009) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestle Kingdom III in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), which took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on January 4, 2009, headlined by Keiji Muto (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom IV (2010) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestle Kingdom IV in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), which took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on January 4, 2010, headlined by Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Yoshihiro Takayama for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

Becoming the Best in the World: Bryan Danielson (2013) Character: Himself
Widely regarded as the best wrestler in the world today, Bryan Danielson is a master of his craft. His rise to the top of the independent wrestling scene didn't happen overnight, and this set chronicles his journey to become the Best in the World.

NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 7 (2020) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 7 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on February 6, 2020 in Tokyo at the Korakuen Hall.

RevPro British J Cup 2018 - Night 1 (2018) Character: N/A
RevPro's third annual showcase of junior heavyweight talent took over York Hall in Bethnal Green.

NJPW Destruction 2009 (2009) Character: N/A
NJPW presented their third annual Destruction event from Ryogoku Kokugikanin Tokyo, Japan.

RevPro British J Cup 2018 - Night 2 (2018) Character: N/A
The British J Cup wraps up with the tournament semi finals and a four-way elimination match to crown a champion.

NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2011 - Day 2 (2011) Character: N/A
Fantastica Mania 2011 was the name of two professional wrestling major shows produced that took place on January 22 and January 23, 2011 in Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The event was the first ever co-promoted events between Japanese New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and features matches with wrestlers from both promotions and both NJPW and CMLL championships being defended.

NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2011 - Day 1 (2011) Character: N/A
Fantastica Mania 2011 was the name of two professional wrestling major shows produced that took place on January 22 and January 23, 2011 in Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The event was the first ever co-promoted events between Japanese New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and features matches with wrestlers from both promotions and both NJPW and CMLL championships being defended.

NJPW Dominion 6.16 (2012) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Dominion 6.16 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on June 16, 2012, at the Bodymaker Colosseum in Osaka, Japan, headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Dominion 6.19 (2010) Character: N/A
Dominion 6.19 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on June 19, 2010, in Osaka, Osaka, at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. The event featured nine matches, three of which were contested for championships. Much like the previous year, Dominion 6.19 also featured wrestlers from Pro Wrestling Noah; namely Go Shiozaki, Muhammad Yone and Naomichi Marufuji.

NJPW Resolution 2009 (2009) Character: N/A
Resolution 2009 was presented by New Japan Pro Wrestling from Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW 40th Anniversary Show (2012) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW celebrates their 40th anniversary from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

STAND UP！　ヴァンガード (2012) Character: N/A
A graduate of American Harvard University with a degree in justice, Daigo is a wanderer who steps into the life of Miura Hiroki after seeing the boy bullied. Becoming employed as a teacher at Hiroki's school, Daigo works continually to unearth the source of Hiroki's sadness and try to revitalize his love for life.

NJPW G1 Climax 17: Day 6 (Final) (2007) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The sixth and final night of the tournament took place on August 12th, 2007 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW G1 Climax 18: Day 7 (Final) (2008) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The seventh and final night of the tournament took place on August 17th, 2008 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 3 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The third night of Road to The New Beginning 2026 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on January 28, 2026, at Ito Mining Arena Tsugaru in Tsugaru, Aomori, Japan.

NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 4 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourth night of Road to The New Beginning 2026 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on January 29, 2026, at Iwate Prefectural Gymnasium in Morioka, Iwate, Japan.

NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 8 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eighth night of Road to The New Beginning 2026 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on February 4, 2026, at Toyota Crown Arena in Fukushima, Japan.

NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 9 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The ninth night of Road to The New Beginning 2026 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on February 7, 2026, at Habikino City Sports Center in Habikino, Osaka, Japan.

Revolution Pro Wrestling- Live in New York 2019 (2019) Character: N/A
Revolution Pro Wrestling- Live in New York 2019

NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 7 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The seventh night of Road to The New Beginning 2026 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on February 3, 2026, at Iwaki City Gymnasium in Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan.

NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2026 - Day 2 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of Fantastica Mania 2026 was a professional wrestling event co-produced by Japanese promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial De Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place on February 21, 2026 at CHRES Gymnasium in Kochi, Japan.

NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2026 - Day 4 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourth night of Fantastica Mania 2026 was a professional wrestling event co-produced by Japanese promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial De Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place on February 23, 2026 at Aichi Budokan in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.

NJPW Road to Sakura Genesis 2026 - Day 3 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The third night of Road to Sakura Genesis 2026 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on March 30, 2026, at Twin Messe Shizuoka in Shizuoka, Japan.

NJPW Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 - Day 5 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fifth night of Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 took place on April 27, 2026, at Yamaguchi Butterfly Arena in Yanai, Yamaguchi, Japan.

NJPW Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 - Day 7 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The seventh night of Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 took place on April 30, 2026, at Grand Messe Kumamoto in Mashiki, Kumamoto, Japan.

NJPW Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 - Day 8 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eighth and final night of Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 took place on May 1, 2026, at Aira City Sports Park Gymnasium in Aira, Kagoshima, Japan.

NJPW Road to G1 Climax 36 - Day 1 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The first night of Road to G1 Climax 36 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on June 19, 2026, at Chino Cultural Complex in Chino, Nagano, Japan.

NJPW Road to G1 Climax 36 - Day 2 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of Road to G1 Climax 36 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on June 21, 2026, at Sagamihara City Gymnasium in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.

NJPW Road to G1 Climax 36 - Day 4 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourth night of Road to G1 Climax 36 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on July 2, 2026, at Tokorozawa Municipal Gymnasium in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan.

NJPW Road to G1 Climax 36 - Day 5 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fifth night of Road to G1 Climax 36 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on July 4, 2026, at Yamagata Big Wing in Yamagata, Japan.

NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2015 - Day 6 (2015) Character: N/A
The Fantasticamania 2015 event was a series of six professional wrestling events in Japan, co-produced by the Japanese promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and the Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and took place between January 13 and 19, 2015. The 2015 shows were the fifth time that NJPW and CMLL have co-promoted shows in Japan under the Fantasticamania name. The 2015 event featured six shows in total, one more than the Fantasticamania 2014 series, and the most shows of any year to date. The 2015 show was the first time the joint show will be held in Takamatsu and Kyoto while it had previously held shows in both Tokyo and Osaka.

NJPW Road To Tokyo Dome - Day 6 (2014) Character: N/A
NJPW Road To Tokyo Dome Night 6 took place in Tokyo, Japan on December 20, 2014. The main event was a six man tag featuring Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kota Ibushi & Togi Makabe taking on Kazuchika Okada, Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii.

NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2014 (2014) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2014 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling, held on September 21, 2014, at Kobe World Memorial Hall in Kobe, Japan, and headlined by Bad Luck Fale (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.

NJPW World Tag League 2014 - Day 11 (2014) Character: N/A
The World Tag League is a professional wrestling round-robin tag team tournament held by New Japan Pro Wrestling as a spin-off of the popular singles tournament, the G1 Climax. It was created in 1991 as the Super Grade Tag League, as a continuation of a regular tag team tournament held since 1980, gaining the name G1 Tag League in 1999. In 2012, New Japan's new owners, the Bushiroad company, renamed the tournament to its current form. The winners of the tournament, assuming they do not already hold the belts, obtain #1 contendership to the IWGP Tag Team Championship. The 2014 finals featured Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata battling Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson.

NJPW World Tag League 2014 - Day 11 (2014) Character: Himself
The World Tag League is a professional wrestling round-robin tag team tournament held by New Japan Pro Wrestling as a spin-off of the popular singles tournament, the G1 Climax. It was created in 1991 as the Super Grade Tag League, as a continuation of a regular tag team tournament held since 1980, gaining the name G1 Tag League in 1999. In 2012, New Japan's new owners, the Bushiroad company, renamed the tournament to its current form. The winners of the tournament, assuming they do not already hold the belts, obtain #1 contendership to the IWGP Tag Team Championship. The 2014 finals featured Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata battling Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson.

CEOxNJPW When Worlds Collide (2018) Character: N/A
CEO Gaming Championships and New Japan Pro Wrestling present When Worlds Collide!

NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 5 (2020) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 5 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on February 4, 2020 in Tokyo at the Korakuen Hall. It was broadcast on NJPWWorld.com

NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 6 (2020) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2020 - Night 6 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on February 5, 2020 in Tokyo at the Korakuen Hall.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17 Pre-Show (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Antonio Inoki memorial spectacular card. Nothing gets the new year started like a good old fashioned New Japan Ranbo! Since 2021, a Ranbo with random timed entries, and plenty of surprises on January 4 had determined a four way on January 5 to decide who first holds the KOPW trophy for the year.

NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 8 (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 8 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro‑Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on November 1, 2025, at the EDION Arena Osaka #2 in Osaka, Japan.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 13 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The thirteenth night of G1 Climax 26 took place at EDION Arena Osaka in Osaka, Japan on August 6, 2016.

NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 10 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The tenth night of G1 Climax 27 took place at Gifu Industrial Hall in Gifu, Japan on July 30, 2017.

NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2017 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Destruction in Kobe 2017 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro‑Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on September 24, 2017, at World Memorial Hall in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, and was headlined by Kenny Omega (c) vs. Juice Robinson for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 4 (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 4 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro‑Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on October 26, 2025, at the Uonuma City Horinouchi Gymnasium in Uonuma, Niigata, Japan.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 9 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), which took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on January 4, 2015, headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

ROH & NJPW: Honor Rising Japan - Night 2 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
ROH-NJPW Honor Rising Japan 2018 - Night 2 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH) and New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on February 24, 2018 at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW G1 Climax 24: Day 12 (Final) (2014) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The twelfth and final night of the tournament, featuring the match to crown the G1 Climax 24 winner, took place on August 10, 2014, at the Seibu Dome in Tokorozawa, Japan.

NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2016 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Destruction in Kobe was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on September 25, 2016 at World Hall in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.

NJPW Honor Rising: Japan 2016 - Day 1 (2016) Character: Self
Honor Rising: Japan 2016 is a two-day professional wrestling "supershow" event co-produced by the Japanese New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and American Ring of Honor (ROH) promotions. The events took place on February 19 and 20, 2016, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The events aired live through NJPW's internet streaming site, New Japan Pro Wrestling World.

ROH: Death Before Dishonor 2023 (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Death Before Dishonor will take place on Friday July 21st in Trenton, NJ at the Cure Insurance Arena!

NJPW Sakura Genesis 2024 (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Sakura Genesis 2024 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on April 6, 2024, at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, and was headlined by Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Yota Tsuji for the IWGP World Heavyweight Title.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16: Night 1 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The first night of Wrestle Kingdom 16 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on January 4, 2022, at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, headlined by Shingo Takagi (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 19 (Final) (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The nineteenth and final night of the tournament took place on August 12, 2019 at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan, and featured the match to crown the winner of G1 Climax 29.

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2022 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestling Dontaku 2022 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on May 1, 2022, at the Fukuoka PayPay Dome in Fukuoka, Japan, headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Wrestling Redzone in Hiroshima (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Wrestling RedZone in Hiroshima 2025 was a special event produced by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), held on April 26, 2025, at the Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall in Hiroshima, Japan.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14: Night 2 (2020) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of Wrestle Kingdom 14 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), which took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on January 5, 2020, headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito (c) in a dual title match for the IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Championships.

NJPW Sakura Genesis 2017 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Sakura Genesis 2017 was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event held on April 9, 2017, at Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Katsuyori Shibata for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Tiger Mask's Retirement Match (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The event was hosted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) for Tiger Mask's official retirement match, ending his 36-year career on July 7, 2026 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

中国・広州「Historic X-over NJPW×STARDOM in Guangzhou」 (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW x Stardom Historic X-over in Guangzhou was a professional wrestling event co-promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and World Wonder Ring Stardom, which also featured wrestlers from China’s own INFIN Wrestling. It took place on October 5, 2025, at Damai 66 Livehouse in Guangzhou, China, and was headlined by Cosmic Angels (Natsupoi, Saori Anou and Sayaka Kurara) against H.A.T.E (Natsuko Tora, Ruaka and Rina).

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 12 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestle Kingdom 12 in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), which took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on January 4, 2018, headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2017 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The New Beginning in Sapporo 2017 was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event held on February 5, 2017, at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Japan, headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Minoru Suzuki for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Road to Tokyo Dome 2025 - Day 1 (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The first night of Road to Tokyo Dome 2025 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on December 19, 2025, at G Messe Gunma in Takasaki, Gunma, Japan, and was headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hiromu Takahashi.

NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2015 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Destruction in Kobe 2015 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), held on September 27, 2015, in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan at the Kobe World Memorial Hall, and headlined by Hirooki Goto (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2021 - Night 2 (2021) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of Wrestling Dontaku 2021 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on May 4, 2021, at the Fukuoka Convention Center in Fukuoka, Japan. The show was headlined by Will Ospreay (c) vs. Shingo Takagi for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 5 (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 5 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro‑Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on October 28, 2025, at the Sado City Gymnasium in Sado, Niigata, Japan.

NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2014 (2014) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
King of Pro Wrestling 2014 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on October 13, 2014, at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, and was headlined by AJ Styles (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 11 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eleventh night of New Japan Cup 2022 took place on March 18, 2022, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan and featured two third-round matches.

NJPW & NOAH: Wrestle Kingdom 16 - Night 3 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The third night of Wrestle Kingdom 16 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event co-produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Pro Wrestling NOAH that took place on January 8, 2022, at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan, headlined by Kazuchika Okada & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Keiji Muto & Kaito Kiyomiya.

NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 3 (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 3 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on October 25, 2025, at the Kumagaya Citizen Gymnasium in Saitama, Japan.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 8 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eighth night of New Japan Cup 2022 took place on March 14, 2022, at Takamatsu City Gymnasium in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan and featured two third-round matches.

2022年2月19日北海道・北海道立総合体育センター北海きたえーる (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
After a month of touring around Japan, the New Year’s Golden Series comes to a close over two nights in Sapporo’s Hokkai Kita-Yell on February 19 and 20. Three championship matches highlight Saturdays clashes with what is sure to be a classical main event.

NJPW STRONG Independence Day 2023 - Day 2 (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of NJPW STRONG Independence Day 2023 took place on July 5, 2023, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, and was headlined by the Final Death Match: Jon Moxley vs. El Desperado.

NJPW Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 - Day 2 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 took place on April 20, 2026, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The event was headlined by an IWGP Tag Team Championship #1 Contendership Match between Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI) and Great-O-Khan & HENARE.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 2 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of G1 Climax 26 took place at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan on July 22, 2016.

パパはわるものチャンピオン (2018) Character: Blue Bottle Mask
Takashi Omura was once a popular professional wrestler, but he isn't popular anymore. He now wears a cockroach mask and wrestles as a villain. He is married to Shiori and they have an elementary school aged son named Shota. Takashi and Shiori have not yet told their son what Takashi does for a living. One day, Shota finds out that Takashi is a professional wrestler and a villain with a cockroach mask. Shota is shocked and tells a lie to his classmate that his dad is a popular professional wrestler.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15: Night 2 (2021) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Night Two of New Japan Pro-Wrestling's 15th annual Tokyo Dome event will feature Shingo Takagi defending his NEVER Openweight Championship against Jeff Cobb, EVIL taking on SANADA, and Jay White taking on the winner of Night One's IWGP Heavyweight & IWGP Intercontinental Double Championship Match.

ROH & NJPW: Honor Rising Japan - Night 1 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
ROH-NJPW Honor Rising Japan 2018 - Night 1 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH) and New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on February 23, 2018 at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW New Year Dash!! 2024 (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW New Year Dash !! 2024 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on January 5, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan at the Sumida City Gymnasium. It was the tenth New Year Dash event. It was broadcast on NJPW World.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 26 - Day 8 (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eighth night of New Japan Pro Wrestling's annual junior heavyweight round-robin tournament took place on May 23, 2019, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 17 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The seventeenth night of G1 Climax 26, and the final night of A Block matches, took place at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan on August 12, 2016.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 10 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The tenth night of New Japan Cup 2022 took place on March 17, 2022, at Twin Messe Shizuoka in Shizuoka, Japan and featured two third-round matches.

NJPW New Year Dash !! 2018 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW New Year Dash!! 2018 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on January 5, 2018, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, and was headlined by CHAOS (Gedo, Hirooki Goto, Kazuchika Okada, Will Ospreay & YOSHI-HASHI) vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, EVIL, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito).

NJPW New Japan Cup 2019 - Day 4 (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourth night of New Japan Cup 2019 took place on March 11, 2019, at Takamatsu City Gymnasium in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan, and featured four first-round matches.

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2026 - Day 1 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The first night of Wrestling Dontaku 2026 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on May 3, 2026, at Fukuoka Convention Center in Fukuoka, Japan. The show was headlined by Yota Tsuji (c) vs. Andrade El Idolo for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2023 - Day 1 (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The New Beginning in Sapporo 2023 - Night 1 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, on February 4, 2023.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2023: Day 1 (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The opening night of New Japan Cup 2023 took place on March 5, 2023, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, marking the start of New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW)’s annual heavyweight single-elimination tournament and featured two first-round matches.

NJPW Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 - Day 4 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourth night of Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 took place on April 26, 2026, at KDDI Ishin Hall in Yamaguchi, Japan.

NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 7 (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW New Japan Soul 2024 - Night 7 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on July 5, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan at Tokyo Budokan.

NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2023 (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The New Beginning in Osaka was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on February 11, 2023 in Osaka at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. It was the thirty-sixth event under the New Beginning name and the seventh to take place in Osaka, with the last back in 2020.

NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2018 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2018 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on September 23, 2018, at the Kobe World Memorial Hall in Kobe, Japan, and was headlined by an IWGP Heavyweight Title #1 Contendership Match between Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada.

NJPW G1 Climax 31: Day 19 (Final) (2021) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
After Wednesday night’s B Block finals, the full card has now been determined for the G1 Climax 31 final on Thursday October 21.

NJPW G1 Climax 19: Day 8 (Final) (2009) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eighth and final night of the tournament took place at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan on August 8, 2009.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2019 - Day 2 (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of New Japan Cup 2019 took place on March 9, 2019, at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, and featured four first-round matches.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 14 (Final) (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourteenth and final night of Best of the Super Junior 33 took place on June 7, 2026 at Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan and was headlined by the final match to crown the tournament winner.

NJPW Road to Destruction 2024: Day 2 (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Road to Destruction 2024: Day 2 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on September 8, 2024, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. It was broadcast on NJPW World.

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2025 - Night 1 (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestling Dontaku 2025 – Night 1 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on May 3, 2025, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center in Fukuoka, Japan, and was headlined by a Dog Pound Cage Match pitting War Dogs against House of Torture, with the losing team forced to leave Bullet Club.

NJPW Destruction in Hiroshima 2018 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Destruction in Hiroshima was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on September 15th, 2018 at Hiroshima Sun Plaza in Hiroshima, Japan.

NJPW Power Struggle 2015 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Power Struggle (2015) was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on November 7, 2015, in Osaka, Osaka, at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. It was the fifth event under the Power Struggle name.

NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 19 (Final) (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The nineteenth and final night of the tournament, featuring the match to crown the G1 Climax 33 winner, took place at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan on August 13th, 2023.

NJPW Destruction In Ryogoku 2023 (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Destruction in Ryogoku 2023 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on October 9, 2023, at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, and was headlined by SANADA (c) vs. EVIL for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom V (2011) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), which took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, on January 4, 2011, and was headlined by Satoshi Kojima (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2026 - Day 1 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The first night of Fantastica Mania 2026 was a professional wrestling event co-produced by Japanese promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial De Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place on February 18, 2026 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium #2 in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2018 - Night 2 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of Wrestling Dontaku 2018 was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event held on May 4, 2018, at the Fukuoka Convention Center in Fukuoka, Japan, headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 7 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The seventh night of Best of Super Junior 33 took place on May 24, 2026 at Kyoto KBS Hall in Kyoto, Japan.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2018 - Day 4 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourth night of New Japan Cup 2018 took place on March 12, 2018 at Takamatsu City General Gymnasium in Kagawa, Japan, and featured two first-round matches.

NJPW 49th Anniversary Show (2021) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The NJPW 49th Anniversary Event was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) pay-per-view held on March 4, 2021, at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan, headlined by Kota Ibushi (c) vs. El Desperado for the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships.

NJPW New Year Dash !! 2023 (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The 2023 edition of New Year Dash!! was an annual professional wrestling event held by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) on January 5, 2023, at Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan, the day after Wrestle Kingdom 17, headlined by the Tag Team Match Kazuchika Okada & Kenny Omega vs. United Empire (Aaron Henare & Jeff Cobb).

NJPW 45th Anniversary Show (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW 45th Anniversary Event took place on March 6, 2017 from the Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. NJPW Anniversary Event celebrates the anniversary of the first event held by NJPW on March 6, 1972. The main event for the 45th Anniversary show was Kazuchika Okada taking on Tiger Mask W.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 6 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The sixth night of G1 Climax 26 took place at Nagano Big Hat in Nagano, Japan on July 27, 2016.

NJPW The New Beginning in Niigata 2016 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The New Beginning in Niigata was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event held on February 14, 2016, at Aore Nagaoka in Niigata, Japan, headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kenny Omega for the vacant IWGP Intercontinental Championship.

WRESTLE PETER PAN 2026 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestle Peter Pan 2026 was a professional wrestling event promoted by DDT Pro-Wrestling, held on August 11, 2026 at Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan. In the main event, Yuki Ueno defended the KO-D Openweight Championship against his former stablemate MAO, now the leader of STRANGE LOVE CONNECTION.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 9 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The ninth night of New Japan Cup 2022 took place on March 15, 2022, at ZIP Arena Okayama in Okayama, Japan and featured two third-round matches.

NJPW The New Beginning In Osaka 2017 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The New Beginning in Osaka 2017 was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event held on February 11, 2017, at Edion Arena Osaka in Osaka, Japan, headlined by Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Michael Elgin for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.

NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2026 - Day 6 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The sixth night of Fantastica Mania 2026 was a professional wrestling event co-produced by Japanese promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial De Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place on February 26, 2026 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 18 (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eighteenth night of the tournament took place on August 17, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan at Ryogoku Kokugikan. It was broadcast on NJPW World and TV Asahi.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 23 - Day 1 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The opening night of New Japan Pro Wrestling's annual junior heavyweight round-robin tournament took place on June 21, 2016, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 2 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of Best of Super Junior 33 took place on May 16, 2026 at Esforta Arena Hachioji in Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14: Night 1 (2020) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The first night of Wrestle Kingdom 14 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), which took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on January 4, 2020, headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kota Ibushi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW The New Beginning 2012 (2012) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The New Beginning (2012) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on February 12, 2012, in Osaka, Osaka, at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. The event featured eight matches, four of which were contested for championships. It was the third event under the New Beginning name, and the first major event held by NJPW after the promotion had been sold to Bushiroad.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 9 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The ninth night of the tournament took place at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan on August 2, 2015.

NJPW Road to Sakura Genesis 2023 - Day 2 (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of Road to Sakura Genesis 2023 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on April 2, 2023 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The show was headlined by Shingo Takagi (c) vs. Aaron Henare in an Ultimate Triad Match for the NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling Championship.

NJPW Superhuman Taiji Ishimori Gets Ridiculous (2024) Character: Brahman Ryusuke
Superhuman Taiji Ishimori Gets Ridiculous was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Taiji Ishimori that took place on November 12, 2024 at Shinjuku FACE in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 12 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The twelfth night of the tournament took place at the Act City Hamamatsu in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan on August 7, 2015.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 13 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The thirteenth night of New Japan Cup 2022 took place on March 21, 2022, at Aore Nagaoka in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan and featured two quarter-final matches.

NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2024 (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2024 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on September 29, 2024 at Kobe World Hall in Kobe, Japan, and was headlined by Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Great-O-Khan for the IWGP World Heavyweight Title.

NJPW x STARDOM: Historic X-Over II (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Historic X-Over II was a professional wrestling event co-promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and World Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom) that took place on November 17, 2024, at the EDION Arena Osaka in Osaka, Japan, headlined by El Desperado & Starlight Kid vs. Maika & Zack Sabre Jr.

NJPW Super J-Cup 2019: Night 1 (2019) Character: N/A
The opening night of the 7th edition of the Super J-Cup, which is a New Japan Pro-Wrestling tournament featuring a collection of sixteen Junior Heavyweight wrestlers from all over the world. Taking place at the Temple Theater Plaza Grand Ballroom in Tacoma, Washington, the show is headlined by Will Ospreay vs. Amazing Red.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 23 - Day 7 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The seventh night of New Japan Pro Wrestling's annual junior heavyweight round-robin tournament took place on June 29, 2016, at Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium - Sub Arena in Osaka, Japan.

NJPW Road to Destruction 2024: Day 5 (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fifth night of Road to Destruction 2024 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on September 14, 2024, at Noboribetsu City General Gymnasium in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, Japan.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 3 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The third night of the tournament took place at the Kyoto City Budokan Center in Kyoto, Japan on July 24, 2015.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 9 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The ninth night of G1 Climax 26 took place at Gifu Industrial Hall in Gifu, Japan on July 31, 2016.

NJPW King of Pro Wrestling 2017 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
King of Pro Wrestling 2017 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on October 9, 2017, at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, and was headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. EVIL for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Power Struggle 2016 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Power Struggle (2016) was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on November 5, 2016, in Osaka, Osaka, at the Edion Arena Osaka. It was the sixth event under the Power Struggle name and featured ten matches, main evented by Tetsuya Naito defending the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against Jay Lethal.

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 19 (Final) (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The nineteenth and final night of the tournament, featuring the match to crown the G1 Climax 28 winner, took place on August 12, 2018, at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2019 - Day 1 (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The opening night of New Japan Cup 2019 took place on March 8, 2019, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, and featured four first-round matches. This was the first edition of the tournament to include 32 participants, up from the usual 16.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 19 (Final) (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The nineteenth and final night of the tournament took place at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan on August 16, 2015. It was broadcast on NJPW World.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 5 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fifth night of the tournament took place at the Hiroshima Green Arena in Hiroshima, Japan on July 26, 2015.

NJPW Hiroshi Tanahashi ~ Final Homecoming (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW presented Hiroshi Tanahashi ~ Final Homecoming on November 2, 2025, at the Gifu Memorial Center in Gifu, Japan, honoring Tanahashi’s last major hometown appearance with a lineup of championship matches and key tournament finals. The event featured Konosuke Takeshita vs. Hirooki Goto for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, Tanahashi’s hometown showdown with Yota Tsuji for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship, and SHO & DOUKI vs. Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori in the deciding match of the 2025 Super Junior Tag League.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 13 (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestle Kingdom 13 in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), which took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on January 4, 2019, headlined by Kenny Omega (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2026 - Day 11 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eleventh night of New Japan Cup 2026 took place on March 20, 2026, at Aore Nagaoka in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan and featured two semi-final matches.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16: Night 2 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of Wrestle Kingdom 16 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on January 5, 2022, at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Will Ospreay for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Declaration of Power (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Declaration of Power was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on October 10, 2022, at Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, headlined by Jay White (c) vs. Tama Tonga for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 5 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fifth night of Road to The New Beginning 2026 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on February 1, 2026, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2024 (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The New Beginning in Osaka (2024) was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka, Japan on February 11, 2024.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 6 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The sixth night of Best of Super Junior 33 took place on May 23, 2026 at Arcrea Himeji in Himeji, Hyogo, Japan.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 2 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of the tournament took place at the Twin Messe Shizuoka in Shizuoka, Japan on July 23, 2015.

NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 8 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eighth night of G1 Climax 27 took place at Aore Nagaoka in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan on July 27, 2017.

NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 9 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The nineth night of G1 Climax 27 took place at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan on July 29, 2017.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 3 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The third night of Best of Super Junior 33 took place on May 17, 2026 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium #2 in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW The New Beginning In Osaka 2018 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The New Beginning in Osaka (2018) was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event held on February 10, 2018, at Edion Arena Osaka in Osaka, Japan, headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Sanada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Invasion Attack 2014 (2014) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Invasion Attack 2014 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling, held on April 6, 2014, at Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, and headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 15 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fifteenth night of G1 Climax 26 took place at the Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan on August 8, 2016.

NJPW Power Struggle 2021 (2021) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Power Struggle 2021 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on November 6, 2021, at Edion Arena Osaka in Osaka, Japan, headlined by Shingo Takagi (c) vs. Zack Sabre Jr. for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 13 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The thirteenth night of the tournament took place at the Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan on August 8, 2015.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 10 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The tenth night of Best of Super Junior 33 took place on May 30, 2026 at Takaoka Techno Dome in Takaoka, Toyama, Japan.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2018 - Day 2 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of New Japan Cup 2018 took place on March 10, 2018 at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, Japan, and featured two first-round matches.

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2014 (2014) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestling Dontaku 2014 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on June 3, 2014 at Fukuoka International Center in Fukuoka, Japan. The show was headlined by an IWGP Heavyweight Championship match with Kazuchika Okada putting his title on the line against AJ Styles.

NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 7 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The seventh night of G1 Climax 27 took place at Sendai Sun Plaza Hall in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan on July 26, 2017.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 8 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eighth night of Best of Super Junior 33 took place on May 27, 2026 at Kira Messe Numazu in Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan.

NJPW Honor Rising: Japan 2018 - Day 1 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Honor Rising: Japan is a professional wrestling event co-promoted by the Japanese New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and American Ring of Honor (ROH) promotions. The event has been held annually since 2016 and takes place in Japan as opposed to the Global Wars and War of the Worlds shows, which the two promotions co-promote in North America.

NJPW Back to the Yokohama Arena (2014) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Back to the Yokohama Arena 2014 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling, held on May 25, 2014, at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan, and headlined by AJ Styles (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 8 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eighth night of the tournament took place at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka, Japan on August 1, 2015.

NJPW Burning Spirit 2022 - Day 14 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourteenth and final night of Burning Spirit 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on September 25, 2022, at World Hall in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, and was headlined by Will Ospreay (c) vs. David Finlay for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2011 (2011) Character: N/A
Wrestling Dontaku 2011 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on May 3, 2011, in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center. The event featured 10 matches, 4 of which were contested for championships. The Main Event featured The IWGP Heavyweight Championship on the line as Shinsuke Nakamura challenges Hiroshi Tanahashi.

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2015 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestling Dontaku 2015 was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) pay-per-view held on May 3, 2015, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center in Fukuoka, Japan, headlined by Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Hirooki Goto for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.

NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 19 (Final) (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The nineteenth and final night of G1 Climax 27, featuring the match to crown the G1 Climax winner, took place at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan on Aug 13, 2017.

NJPW Superhuman Taiji Ishimori Gets Ridiculous One More Time (2025) Character: Brahman Ryusuke
NJPW Superhuman Taiji Ishimori Gets Ridiculous One More Time was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Taiji Ishimori that took place on November 12, 2025 at Shinjuku FACE in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2019 - Day 2 (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of The New Beginning in Sapporo 2019 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on February 3, 2019, at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Japan. The show was headlined by Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Taichi for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 6 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The sixth night of New Japan Cup 2022 took place on March 12, 2022, at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan and featured four second-round matches.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 12 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The twelfth night of G1 Climax 26 took place at the Fukuoka Civic Gymnasium in Fukuoka, Japan on August 4, 2016.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 9 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The ninth night of Best of Super Junior 33 took place on May 29, 2026 at Niigata Tsubame Civic Gymnasium in Tsubame, Niigata, Japan.

NJPW Tanahashi Jam (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Tanahashi Jam was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event produced by Hiroshi Tanahashi and held on June 29, 2025, at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, Japan, headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa.

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2020 - Day 1 (2020) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The first night of The New Beginning in Sapporo 2020 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on February 1, 2020, at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Japan, and was headlined by Hirooki Goto (c) vs. Shingo Takagi for the NEVER Openweight Championship.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 10 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The tenth night of the tournament took place at the Sendai Sun Plaza Hall in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan on August 4, 2015.

NJPW Wrestle Grand Slam In Tokyo Dome (2021) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Wrestle Grand Slam in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on July 25, 2021, at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, headlined by Shingo Takagi (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 11 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eleventh night of the tournament took place at the Iwate Industrial Bunka Center Apio in Morioka, Iwate, Japan on August 5, 2015.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 5 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fifth night of New Japan Cup 2022 took place on March 10, 2022, at Aimesse Yamanashil in Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan and featured four second-round matches.

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2019 - Day 1 (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The first night of Wrestling Dontaku 2019 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling that took place on May 3, 2019, at Fukuoka Kokusai Center in Fukuoka, Japan, and was headlined by Dragon Lee (c) vs. Taiji Ishimori for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW The New Beginning in Hiroshima 2014 (2014) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW The New Beginning in Hiroshima 2014 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling, held on February 9, 2014, at the Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall in Hiroshima, Japan, and headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 14 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourteenth night of New Japan Cup 2022 took place on March 26, 2022, at Osaka-Jo Hall in Osaka, Japan and featured two semi-final matches.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 15 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fifteenth night of the tournament took place at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan on August 11, 2015.

NJPW New Year Dash !! 2015 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
New Year Dash!! 2015, which took place the night after Wrestle Kingdom 10, was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling on January 5, 2015, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, and was headlined by an eight-man tag team match featuring Hirooki Goto, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Katsuyori Shibata & Tetsuya Naito vs. Bullet Club (AJ Styles, Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson & Yujiro Takahashi).

NJPW Road to Destruction 2024: Day 4 (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourth night of Road to Destruction 2024 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on September 11, 2024, at Sendai Sun Plaza Hall in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 1 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The opening night of New Japan Pro Wrestling's annual junior heavyweight round-robin tournament took place on May 14, 2026, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPWニューイヤーゴールデンシリーズナイト1 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
January 20 sees the New year’s Golden Series get underway. The throwback tour title is a call back to the year opening series in the early years for NJPW, and is a fitting name for our golden anniversary celebrations!

NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 6 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The sixth night of G1 Climax 27 took place at Big Pallete Fukushima in Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan on July 25, 2017.

NJPW New Year Dash!! 2025 (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW New Year Dash!! 2025 was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event held on January 6, 2025, at Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan, headlined by CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, Rocky Romero, YOH & YOSHI-HASHI) vs. TMDK (Kosei Fujita, Robbie Eagles, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.) with Hartley Jackson.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 10 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The tenth night of G1 Climax 26 took place at the Takamatsu City Gymnasium in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan on August 1, 2016.

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2021 - Night 1 (2021) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The first night of Wrestling Dontaku 2021 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on May 3, 2021, at the Fukuoka Convention Center in Fukuoka, Japan, headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Jay White for the NEVER Openweight Championship.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 3 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The third night of New Japan Cup 2022 took place on March 7, 2022, at Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan and featured four first-round matches.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 8 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eighth night of G1 Climax 26 took place at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan on July 30, 2016.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 7 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The seventh night of G1 Climax 26 took place at the Tokorozawa Citizen Gymnasium in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan on July 28, 2016.

NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 16 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The sixteenth night of G1 Climax 27 took place at Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan on August 8, 2017.

NJPW Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jō Hall was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on June 9, 2019, at the Osaka-jō Hall in Osaka, Japan, and was headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Chris Jericho for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Destruction in Hiroshima 2017 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Destruction in Hiroshima 2017 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on September 16, 2017, at Hiroshima Sun Plaza in Hiroshima, Japan, headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Zack Sabre Jr. for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship

NJPW Death Pain Invitational (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Death Pain Invitational was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) pay-per-view produced by El Desperado and held on June 24, 2025, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, headlined by El Desperado (c) vs. Jun Kasai in a Fluorescent Lighttubes Glass Board Barbed Wire Death Match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title.

NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2016 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
King of Pro Wrestling 2016 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on October 10, 2016, at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, and was headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Naomichi Marufuji for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Power Struggle ~ Super Junior Tag League 2019 (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Power Struggle ~ Super Junior Tag League 2019 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on November 3, 2019 in Osaka at the EDION Arena Osaka. It was broadcast on NJPWWorld.com.

DDTプロレス×新日本プロレス一面対抗戦PART2〜ササダンゴ軍vs矢野軍 5対5勝ち抜き団体戦〜 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW vs. DDT: Toru Yano vs. Super Sasadango Machine, Part 2 was a co-produced show by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and DDT Pro-Wrestling that took place on June 8, 2026, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The event was headlined by a 10-man tag team elimination match between Team NJPW and Team DDT, captained by Toru Yano and Super Sasadango Machine, respectively.

NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 2 (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 2 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on October 24, 2025, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW New Year Dash !! 2017 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
New Year Dash !! 2017, held the night after Wrestle Kingdom 11, was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling that took place on January 5, 2017, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, and was headlined by a NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championship match pitting Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, EVIL & SANADA) (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Manabu Nakanishi & Ryusuke Taguchi.

NJPW Dominion 7.12 in Osaka-Jo Hall (2020) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Dominion 7.12 in Osaka-jo Hall was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling on July 12, 2020, at Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka, Japan, and was headlined by Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. EVIL for the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 16 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The sixteenth night of the tournament took place at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan on August 12, 2015.

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2018 - Day 1 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The first night of NJPW The New Beginning in Sapporo 2018 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on January 27, 2018, at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Japan, and was headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Minoru Suzuki for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 26 - Day 15 (Final) (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fifteenth and final night of New Japan Pro Wrestling's annual junior heavyweight round-robin tournament took place on June 5, 2019, at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan. The show featured an IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship match between Juice Robinson (c) and Jon Moxley and was headlined by the Best of the Super Junior 26 final.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 1 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The opening night of G1 Climax 26 took place at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan on July 18, 2016.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2026 - Day 12 (Final) (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The twelfth and final night of the tournament took place on March 21, 2026, at Aore Nagaoka in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan, and opened with an Open Challenge for Konosuke Takeshita’s NJPW World Television Championship. The show was headlined by the match to crown the winner of the 2026 New Japan Cup, who went on to face Yota Tsuji for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at Sakura Genesis 2026.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 5 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fifth night of G1 Climax 26 took place at Fukushima Big Palette in Fukushima, Japan on July 25, 2016.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17: Night 2 in Yokohama Arena (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestle Kingdom 17 - Night 2 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Pro Wrestling Noah (NOAH) promotions. The event took place on January 21, 2023, at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. The event was held in honor of the company's founder Antonio Inoki, who died on October 1, 2022.

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2023 - Day 2 (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The New Beginning in Sapporo 2023 - Night 2 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, on February 5, 2023.

エスパーX探偵社〜さよならのさがしもの〜 (2024) Character: Koichi Nishida
Crimes committed with supernatural powers are on the rise and detective Matsuda Kiyohito is equipped with such powers to fight them. He receives an assignment from a woman who claims that her sister has fallen under the spell of an evil group and that he should get her out of there. Matsuda investigates, but detective Minamino gets in his way. Minamino is investigating another case involving the group. The bond between the two deepens. But Minamino has a secret ...

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 25 - Day 1 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The opening night of New Japan Pro Wrestling's annual junior heavyweight round-robin tournament took place on May 18, 2018, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW Power Struggle ~ Super Junior Tag League 2024 (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Power Struggle ~ Super Junior Tag League 2024 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on November 4, 2024, at the EDION Arena Osaka in Osaka, Japan, and was headlined by Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Shingo Takagi for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 5 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fifth night of Best of Super Junior 33 took place on May 22, 2026 at Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium Sub Arena in Osaka, Japan.

NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2026 - Day 5 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fifth night of Fantastica Mania 2026 was a professional wrestling event co-produced by Japanese promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial De Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place on February 24, 2026 at EDION Arena Osaka #2 in Osaka, Japan.

NJPW Yuji Nagata Produce Blue Justice XVIII (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Yuji Nagata Produce Blue Justice XVIII was a professional wrestling event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and organized by Yuji Nagata. Held on June 20, 2026, at City Gymnasium in Kimitsu, Chiba, Japan, the annual Blue Justice show served as Nagata’s hometown charity event.

NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 1 (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The first night of Super Junior Tag League 2025 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on October 23, 2025, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, marking the official kickoff of the annual junior heavyweight tag team tournament.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 6 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The sixth night of the tournament took place at the Beppu B-Con Plaza in Beppu, Oita, Japan on July 28, 2015.

NJPW Wrestling Toyonokuni 2017 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestling Toyonokuni 2017 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), held on April 29, 2017, at the Beppu Beacon Plaza in Beppu, Ōita, and headlined by Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Juice Robinson for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2020 - Day 2 (2020) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of The New Beginning in Sapporo 2020 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on February 2, 2020, at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Japan, and was headlined by Kazuchika Okada vs. Taichi.

NJPW G1 Climax 35: Day 18 (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eighteenth night of the tournament, featuring two semifinal matches, took place on August 16, 2025, at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 19 (Final) (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The nineteenth and final night of the tournament took place on August 18, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan at Ryogoku Kokugikan. It was broadcast on NJPW World and TV Asahi.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 14 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourteenth night of the tournament took place at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan on August 9, 2015.

NJPW 46th Anniversary Show (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The NJPW 46th Anniversary Event was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) pay-per-view held on March 6, 2018, at Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan, headlined by Kazuchika Okada vs. Will Ospreay.

NJPW Superhuman Taiji Ishimori Gets Even More Ridiculous (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Superhuman Taiji Ishimori Gets Even More Ridiculous was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Taiji Ishimori that took place on October 7, 2025 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2019 - Day 1 (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The first night of The New Beginning in Sapporo 2019 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), held on February 2, 2019, at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. The show was headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada vs. Bullet Club’s Bad Luck Fale & Jay White in a tag-team match.

NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2016 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The New Beginning in Osaka 2016 is a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on February 11, 2016, at EDION Arena Osaka in Osaka, Japan. It was the ninth total event under the New Beginning name and the third held in Osaka, and featured Kazuchika Okada defending the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Hirooki Goto in the main event.

NJPW Yuji Nagata Produce Blue Justice XVII ~ Aoyi Transition ~ (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Blue Justice XVII ~ Aoyi Transition ~ was a professional wrestling event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and organized by Yuji Nagata, which took place on January 18, 2026 at Sakura Civic Gymnasium in Sakura, Chiba, Japan.

NJPW Road to Destruction 2024: Day 3 (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Road to Destruction 2024: Day 3 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on September 9, 2024, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. It was broadcast on NJPW World.

NJPW Shingo Takagi's 20th Debut Anniversary Event (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Shingo Takagi's 20th Debut Anniversary Event was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of Shingo Takagi's wrestling debut, held on September 7, 2024, at Aimesse Yamanashi in Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan, and headlined by Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI & Shingo Takagi) & YAMATO vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Hiromu Takahashi, Tetsuya Naito & Yota Tsuji).

NJPW Strong Style Evolved 2018 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Strong Style Evolved was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event held on March 25, 2018, at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California, headlined by The Golden☆Lovers (Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi) vs. The Young Bucks.

NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2026 - Day 7 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The seventh and final night of Fantastica Mania 2026 was a professional wrestling event co-produced by Japanese promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial De Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place on February 27, 2026 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW New Japan Road in Karatsu 2026 ~ Ignition to Dominion (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
New Japan Road in Karatsu 2026 ~ Ignition to Dominion was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on May 6, 2026 at Karatsu City Cultural Gymnasium in Karatsu, Saga, Japan. The show was headlined by a tag team match pitting IWGP Heavyweight Champion Callum Newman and United Empire stablemate Jake Lee against Yota Tsuji and Shingo Takagi. If Tsuji or Takagi lost, they would be barred from ever challenging Newman for the title, but if they won, whoever pinned Newman would earn a title shot at Dominion 6.14 in Osaka-Jo Hall.

NJPW Sakura Genesis 2018 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Sakura Genesis 2018 was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event held on April 1, 2018, at Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Zack Sabre Jr. for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 - Day 6 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The sixth night of Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 took place on April 29, 2026, at Saga Arena in Saga, Japan. The event was headlined by DOUKI (c) vs. Tiger Mask in a Lumberjack match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2024 - Day 1 (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The New Beginning in Sapporo 2024 - Night 1 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan on February 23, 2024.

NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2015 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
King of Pro-Wrestling 2015 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on October 12, 2015, at Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan. The show was headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. AJ Styles for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Road to G1 Climax 36 - Day 3 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The third night of Road to G1 Climax 36 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on June 23, 2026, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The show featured a four-way #1 contendership match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship and two G1 Climax 36 play-in matches.

NJPW Purge Night of Torture (2025) Character: Hip Togo
NJPW Purge Night of Torture was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on November 19, 2025, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The show was styled as a full House of Torture takeover, with the faction controlling the matchmaking, presentation, and atmosphere while featuring wrestlers from NJPW, Stardom, DDT Pro-Wrestling, Dragongate, ZERO1, NOAH, and Michinoku Pro Wrestling.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2018 - Day 3 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The third night of New Japan Cup 2018 took place on March 11, 2018 at Amagasaki Memorial Park Gymnasium in Hyogo, Japan, and featured two first-round matches.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 11 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eleventh night of G1 Climax 26 took place at the Kagoshima Arena in Kagoshima, Japan on August 3, 2016.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 3 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The third night of G1 Climax 26 took place at the Machida Gymnasium in Machida, Tokyo, Japan on July 23, 2016.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2017 - Day 2 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of New Japan Cup 2017 took place on March 12, 2017, at Amagasaki Baycom Gymnasium in Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan, and featured four first-round matches.

NJPW Yuji Nagata Produce Blue Justice XVI (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Yuji Nagata Produce Blue Justice XVI was a professional wrestling event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and organized by Yuji Nagata. Held on September 7, 2025, at Togane Arena in Togane, Chiba, Japan, the annual Blue Justice show served as Nagata’s hometown charity event. The main event featured Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yuji Nagata in what was billed as Tanahashi’s “Final Road” match—Tanahashi’s mentor versus his longtime protégé. The match carried added significance as the 18th and final singles encounter between the two, closing the book on one of NJPW’s defining rivalries that began with their first clash on January 24, 2002, when a young Tanahashi challenged Nagata in a bout that helped launch his rise to stardom.

NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed 2018 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Fighting Spirit Unleashed was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event held on September 30, 2018, at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California, marking the promotion’s fourth independently produced U.S. show and second at the venue, headlined by The Golden☆Lovers (Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi) vs. Chaos (Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii).

NJPW Dominion 6.12 In Osaka-Jo Hall (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Dominion 6.12 in Osaka-jō Hall was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on June 12, 2022, at Osaka-jō Hall in Osaka, Japan, and was headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Jay White for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Honor Rising: Japan 2018 - Day 2 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Honor Rising: Japan is a professional wrestling event co-promoted by the Japanese New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and American Ring of Honor (ROH) promotions. The event has been held annually since 2016 and takes place in Japan as opposed to the Global Wars and War of the Worlds shows, which the two promotions co-promote in North America.

All Together Again (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
For the first time in 11 years, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), and Pro Wrestling NOAH (NOAH) united for All Together: Again on June 9, 2023. Held at Ryōgoku Sumo Hall in Tokyo, Japan, the event featured a stacked lineup showcasing the top stars and styles of all three promotions, and was headlined by a six-man tag team match pitting Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW), Kento Miyahara (AJPW), and Kaito Kiyomiya (NOAH) against Kazuchika Okada (NJPW), Yuma Aoyagi (AJPW), and Kenoh (NOAH).

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2025 - Night 2 (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestling Dontaku 2025 – Night 2 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on May 4, 2025, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center in Fukuoka, Japan, and was headlined by Hirooki Goto (c) vs. Callum Newman for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW New Japan Road in Anjo 2025 (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW New Japan Road in Anjo 2025 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on November 8, 2025, at Tosho Arena Anjo in Anjo, Aichi, Japan, headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yuto-Ice.

NJPW Destruction in Hiroshima 2016 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Destruction in Hiroshima was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on September 22, 2016 at Hiroshima Sun Plaza in Hiroshima, Japan.

NJPW Royal Quest (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Royal Quest was New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s (NJPW) first independently produced event in the United Kingdom, held on August 31, 2019, at the Copper Box Arena in London, featuring talent from Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW) and headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Minoru Suzuki for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 15 (Final) (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fifteenth and final night of the tournament took place on March 27, 2022, at Osaka-Jo Hall in Osaka, Japan and featured the final match to crown the winner of New Japan Cup 2022.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2021 - Day 3 (2021) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The third night of New Japan Cup 2021 took place on March 7, 2021, at Aimesse Yamanashi in Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan, and featured two first-round matches.

ニューイヤーゴールデンシリーズ20 22-2日目 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW New Years Golden Series 2022 - Night 2 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on January 21, 2022 in Korakuen Hall at the Tokyo, Japan. Full Card: (1.)Great-O-Khan vs. Ryohei Oiwa (2.)BUSHI vs. Yuto Nakashima (3.) Tiger Mask & Yuji Nagata vs. BULLET CLUB (Gedo & Taiji Ishimori) (4.)Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Suzuki-gun (El Desperado, TAKA Michinoku & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) (5.) CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, YOH & YOSHI-HASHI) vs. House Of Torture (Dick Togo, EVIL, SHO & Yujiro Takahashi) (6.)Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada & Togi Makabe vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito)

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 4 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourth night of Best of Super Junior 33 took place on May 20, 2026 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 18 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eighteenth night of G1 Climax 26, and the final night of B Block matches, took place at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan on August 13, 2016.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 23 - Day 14 (Final) (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourteenth and final night of New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s annual junior heavyweight round-robin tournament took place on July 7, 2016, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, and featured the final match to crown the winner of Best of the Super Juniors 23.

NJPW G1 Climax 21: Day 10 (Final) (2011) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The tenth and final night of the tournament took place at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan on August 14, 2011.

NJPW Invasion Attack 2016 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Invasion Attack 2016 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on April 10, 2016, at Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 11 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eleventh night of Best of Super Junior 33 took place on June 2, 2026 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 12 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The twelfth night of Best of Super Junior 33 took place on June 3, 2026 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW Power Struggle 2014 (2014) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Power Struggle 2014 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling, held on November 8, 2014, at the Bodymaker Colosseum in Osaka, Japan, and headlined by Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Katsuyori Shibata for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2026 - Day 2 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of Wrestling Dontaku 2026 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on May 4, 2026, at Fukuoka Convention Center in Fukuoka, Japan. The show was headlined by Callum Newman (c) vs. Shingo Takagi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2021 - Day 9 (2021) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The ninth night of New Japan Cup 2021 took place on March 15, 2021, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, and featured two second-round matches.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 20 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestle Kingdom 20 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on January 4, 2026, at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, featuring the official retirement match of Hiroshi Tanahashi versus his long-time rival Kazuchika Okada and a dual title match between IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Konosuke Takeshita and IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion Yota Tsuji.

NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 18 (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eighteenth night of G1 Climax 33, featuring two semifinal matches, took place at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan on August 12, 2023

NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 17 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The seventeenth night of G1 Climax 27 took place at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan on August 11, 2017.

NJPW & AJPW 40th Anniversary: We Are Pro-Wrestling Love (2012) Character: N/A
We Are Pro-Wrestling Love was a supercard produced by New Japan Pro Wrestling and All-Japan Pro Wrestling to celebrate the companies' 40th anniversaries.

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2019 - Day 2 (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of Wrestling Dontaku 2019 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling that took place on May 4, 2019, at Fukuoka Kokusai Center in Fukuoka, Japan, and was headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. SANADA for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Power Struggle ~ Super Junior Tag League 2023 (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Power Struggle ~ Super Junior Tag League 2023 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on November 4, 2023 in Osaka, Japan at the EDION Arena Osaka. It was broadcast on NJPW World and TV Asahi.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 19 (Final) (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The nineteenth and final night of the tournament, featuring the match to crown the G1 Climax 26 winner, took place at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan on August 14, 2016.

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2024 - Day 2 (2024) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The New Beginning in Sapporo 2024 - Night 2 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan on February 24, 2024.

新春黄金シリーズ 2022年2月7日東京・後楽園ホール (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
After a fortnight’s break, NJPW resumes touring action on February 6 in Chiba, before the next night sees the New Year’s Golden Series tour return to Korakuen Hall. There a big main event will see a preview of championship action February 11 in Sendai, as Master Wato and El Desperado meet in a tag battle before their Sun Plaza Hall IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match!

NJPW Sengoku Lord in Nagoya (2020) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Sengoku Lord in Nagoya was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on July 25, 2020, in Nagoya, Aichi, at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium and was the second event under the Sengoku Lord name, the second in a row in Nagoya, and second in a row that took place at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium.

NJPW Power Struggle 2017 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Power Struggle was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on November 5, 2017, at Edion Arena Osaka in Osaka, Japan, and was headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Kota Ibushi for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.

NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2020 (2020) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The New Beginning in Osaka (2020) was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) pay-per-view held on February 9, 2020, at Osaka-jō Hall in Osaka, Japan, headlined by Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. KENTA for the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships.

NJPW 47th Anniversary Show (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The 47th Anniversary Event was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) pay-per-view held on March 6, 2019, at Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan, and headlined by Jay White vs. Will Ospreay.

NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 6 (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 6 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro‑Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on October 29, 2025, at the Sun Village Shibata in Shibata, Niigata, Japan.

NJPW Dominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Dominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), held on July 5, 2015, in Osaka, Japan at Osaka-jō Hall, headlined by A.J. Styles (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2023: Day 4 (2023) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourth night of New Japan Cup 2023 took place on March 10th, 2023 at Aimesse Yamanashi in Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan and featured two first-round matches.

NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 18 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The eighteenth night G1 Climax 27 took place at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan on August 12, 2017.

NJPW Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 - Day 1 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The first night of Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 took place on April 19, 2026, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom II (2008) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestle Kingdom II in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion, which took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on January 4, 2008. It was the 17th January 4 Tokyo Dome Show and the second held under the "Wrestle Kingdom" name. The event featured ten matches, four of which were contested for championships.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 12 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The twelfth night of New Japan Cup 2022 took place on March 20, 2022, at Aore Nagaoka in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan and featured two quarter-final matches.

NJPW New Year Dash !! 2019 (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW New Year Dash !! 2019 is a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on January 5, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan at the Korakuen Hall.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 4 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourth night of G1 Climax 26 took place at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan on July 24, 2016.

NJPW Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 - Day 3 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The third night of Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 took place on April 24, 2026, at Texport Imabari in Imabari, Ehime, Japan.

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2016 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestling Dontaku 2016 was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) pay-per-view held on May 3, 2016, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center in Fukuoka, Japan, headlined by Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 7 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The seventh night of the tournament took place at the Fukuoka International Center in Fukuoka, Japan on July 29, 2015.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 16 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The sixteenth night of G1 Climax 26 took place at the Yamagata Sports Center in Yamagata, Japan on August 10, 2016.

NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2026 - Day 3 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The third night of Fantastica Mania 2026 was a professional wrestling event co-produced by Japanese promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial De Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place on February 22, 2026 at ATC Hall in Osaka, Japan.

NJPW Super J-Cup 2019: Night 2 (2019) Character: N/A
The second night of the 7th edition of the Super J-Cup, which is a New Japan Pro-Wrestling tournament featuring a collection of sixteen Junior Heavyweight wrestlers from all over the world. Taking place at the San Francisco State University Student Life Events Center in San Francisco, California, the show features the first round winners going head-to-head.

NJPW Super J-Cup 2019: Night 3 (2019) Character: N/A
The third and final night of the 7th edition of the Super J-Cup, which is a New Japan Pro-Wrestling tournament featuring a collection of sixteen Junior Heavyweight wrestlers from all over the world. Taking place at the Long Beach Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California, the show features the Quarter, Semi, and Grand Final matches.

NJPW Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jō Hall was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on June 11, 2017, at Osaka-jō Hall in Osaka, Japan, and was headlined by Kenny Omega (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 1 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The first night of the tournament took place at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan on July 20, 2015.

NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 7 (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 - Day 7 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro‑Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on October 30, 2025, at the Fukui Prefectural Industrial Hall (Exhibition Hall No.1) in Fukui, Japan.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 2 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of New Japan Cup 2022 took place on March 6, 2022, at Big Palette Fukushimal in Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan and featured three first-round matches.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 33 - Day 13 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The thirteenth night of Best of the Super Juniors 33 took place on June 5, 2026, at G Messe Gunma in Takasaki, Gunma, Japan, and featured two semifinal matches to determine the tournament finalists.

NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2014 (2014) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2014 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling, held on February 11, 2014, at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka, Japan, and headlined by Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Hirooki Goto for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Invasion Attack 2015 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Invasion Attack 2015 was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) pay-per-view held on April 5, 2015, at Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, headlined by A.J. Styles (c) vs. Kota Ibushi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom VI (2012) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
Wrestle Kingdom VI in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), which took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on January 4, 2012, headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Minoru Suzuki for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 4 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourth night of the tournament took place at the Takamatsu City Gymnasium in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan on July 25, 2015.

NJPW G1 Climax 26: Day 14 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The fourteenth night of G1 Climax 26 took place at Act City Hamamatsu in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan on August 7, 2016.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2020 - Day 9 (Final) (2020) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The ninth and final night of the tournament took place on July 11, 2020, at Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka, Japan, and included the match to determine the winner of New Japan Cup 2020.

NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2015 (2015) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The New Beginning in Osaka 2015 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling, held on February 11, 2015, at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka, Japan, and headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. AJ Styles for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

NJPWゴールデンシリーズナイト2022年2月13日大阪 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
As NJPW rounds the corner into the last week of the New Year’s Golden Seriers, action hits Osaka on February 13, hitting EDION Arena for the first time in 2022 with an appropriately big main event.

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2018 - Night 1 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The first night of Wrestling Dontaku 2018 was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event held on May 3, 2018, at the Fukuoka Convention Center in Fukuoka, Japan, headlined by Kenny Omega vs. Hangman Page.

新春黄金シリーズ 2022年2月11日宮城・ゼビオアリーナ仙台 (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
February 11 sees night nine of the New Year’s Golden Series, and the first championship action of the tour, as Sendai will see the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship defended atop a card that is dominated by junior heavyweight action.

NJPW Power Struggle 2018 ~ Super Junior Tag League 2018 Final (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW Power Struggle 2018 ~ Super Junior Tag League 2018 Final was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on November 3, 2018, at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium (Edion Arena Osaka) in Osaka, Japan, and featured the finals of the 2018 Super Junior Tag League tournament. The main event was Chris Jericho (c) vs. EVIL for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2017 - Day 1 (2017) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The opening night of New Japan Cup 2017 took place on March 11, 2017, at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, and featured four first-round matches.

JTO TAKA Michinoku Debut 30th Anniversary: TAKATaichiDespeMania (2022) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
JTO celebrates TAKA Michinoku's 30th anniversary in wrestling with this independent show featuring wrestlers from some of Japan's biggest promotions.

NJPW G1 Climax 35: Day 19 (Final) (2025) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The nineteenth and final night of the tournament, featuring the match to crown the G1 Climax 35 winner, took place on August 17, 2025, at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW New Year Dash !! 2016 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW New Year Dash!! 2016 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on January 5, 2016, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, headlined by The Briscoes (Jay Briscoe & Mark Briscoe) & Toru Yano (c) vs. Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2018 - Day 2 (2018) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The second night of NJPW The New Beginning in Sapporo 2018 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on January 28, 2018, at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Japan, and was headlined by Kenny Omega (c) vs. Jay White for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 10 (2026) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The tenth and final night of Road to The New Beginning 2026 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on February 8, 2026, at EDION Arena Osaka #2 in Osaka, Japan.

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 23 - Day 6 (2016) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The sixth night of New Japan Pro Wrestling's annual junior heavyweight round-robin tournament took place on June 27, 2016, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW New Japan Cup 2019 - Day 3 (2019) Character: Ryusuke Taguchi
The third night of New Japan Cup 2019 took place on March 10, 2019, at Baycom Gymnasium in Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan, and featured four first-round matches.

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