New Japan Pro-Wrestling has announced the lineups for the World Tag League and the Super Junior Tag League.
The tournaments will run kick off on November 21, and the finals will be held on December 14. The winners of the leagues will challenge for their respective tag titles at NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17.
The lineups are as follows:
NJPW World Tag League 2022
- Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI) (1x IWGP Tag Team Champions, 2021 World Tag League winners)
- HOUSE OF TORTURE (EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi) (2021 World Tag League finalists. EVIL 2x IWGP Tag Team Champion, 2x World Tag League winner. Yujiro 1x IWGP Tag Team Champion)
- BULLET CLUB (Bad Luck Fale & Chase Owens 1x IWGP Tag Team Champions)
- TMDK (Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls)
- Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin
- Los Ingobernables De Japon (Tetsuya Naito & SANADA) (1x IWGP Tag Team Champions. Naito 2x IWGP Tag Team Champion, SANADA 3x IWGP Tag Team Champion, 2x World Tag League winner)
- United Empire (Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan) (O-Khan: 2x former IWGP Tag Team Champion)
- Be-Bop Tag Team (Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi) (Yano: 3x IWGP Tag Team Champion, Tanahashi: 3x IWGP Tag Team Champion)
- Aussie Open (Mark Davis & Kyle Fletcher) (1x NJPW STRONG Tag Team Champions)
- Suzuki-Gun (Lance Archer & Minoru Suzuki) (2011 G1 Tag League winners. Archer: 3x IWGP Tag Team Champion, Suzuki: 1x IWGP Tag Team Champion)
NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2022
The lineup is as follows:
- Catch 2/2 (Francesco Akira & TJP) – IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions
- CHAOS (Lio Rush & YOH) (YOH: 5x IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Champion, 3x Super Jr. Tag League winner)
- Los Ingobernables De Japon (BUSHI & Titan)
- BULLET CLUB (Ace Austin & Chris Bey)
- Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA (KUSHIDA: 2x IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, 2012 Super Jr. Tag Tournament winner)
- Flying Tiger (Robbie Eagles & Tiger Mask) (1x IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions)
- HOUSE OF TORTURE (Dick Togo & SHO) (SHO: 5x IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Champion, 3x Super Jr. Tag League winner)
- Wild Hips (Ryusuke Taguchi & Clark Connors) (Taguchi: 7x IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champion)
- Suzuki-Gun (DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) (Kanemaru: 6x IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, 2021 Super Jr. Tag League winner)
- El Lindaman & Alex Zayne
WrestleZone will provide more information as it becomes available.
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