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NJPW World Tag League 2026 Teams Revealed

November 5, 2026 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
NJPW World Tag League 2026 Image Credit: NJPW

The 2026 iteration of the NJPW World Tag League kicks off later this month, and the teams have officially been unveiled. NJPW announced the participating teams in the tournament on Thursday morning. The list of teams includes the Knock Out Brothers, multiple HOUSE OF TORTURE and Unbound Co. teams, Aaron Wolf & Boltin Oleg, and more.

The World Tag League kicks off on November 25th and runs through December 13th. As is tradition, the winners of the tournament will challenge for the IWGP Tag Team Championship at Wrestle Kingdom 21. The current champions are the Knock Out Brothers, and if they win they will pick their opponents for Wrestle Kingdom.

The blocks for the tournament are:

A Block

* Knock Out Brothers
* Monster Sauce (Alex Zayne & Lance Archer)
* Yuya Uemura & Yuji Nagata
* Aaron Wolf & Boltin Oleg
* Unbound Co. (Yota Tsuji & Jeff Cobb)
* T.M.D.K. (Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson)
* United Empire (Callum Newman & Jake Lee)
* HOUSE OF TORTURE (SANADA & Yujiro Takahashi)

B Block

* Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI)
* United Empire (Great-O-Khan & HENARE)
* Unbound Co. (Shingo Takagi & Drilla Moloney)
* HOUSE OF TORTURE (Don Fale & Chase Owens)
* Shota Umino & Satoshi Kojima
* Toru Yano & Togi Makabe
* Taichi & TBA
* HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita & Shun Skywalker)