New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced sixteen teams for this year’s World Tag League.
The round-robin tournament begins Nov. 23 in Yokohama. The top two teams of each eight-team block will face off in the semifinals in Kagoshima on Dec. 11, and the final will be on Dec. 13 in Kumamoto.
The IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, the Knockout Brothers, will compete in A Block, and Taichi will team with a mystery partner in B Block.
Here are the blocks and teams in this year’s World Tag League
A Block
- Knockout Brothers (Yuto-Ice & Oskar)
- Alex Zayne & Lance Archer
- Yuya Uemura & Yuji Nagata
- Aaron Wolf & Boltin Oleg
- Yota Tsuji & Jeff Cobb
- Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson
- Callum Newman & Jake Lee
- Sanada & Yujiro Takahashi
B Block
- Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & Yoshi-Hashi)
- Great-O-Khan & Henare
- War Dragons (Shingo Takagi & Drilla Moloney)
- Don Fale & Chase Owens
- Shota Umino & Satoshi Kojima
- Most Violent Players (Toru Yano & Togi Makabe)
- Taichi & X
- Ren Narita & Shun Skywalker
