NJPW Unveils Teams For 2026 World Tag League Tournament

The teams for the World Tag League.

New Japan Pro-Wrestling unveiled the teams for the 2026 World Tag League tournament. The tournament starts on November 23rd, and the final is on December 13th.

Below are the blocks:

A Block

• Knockout Brothers (Yuto-Ice & OSKAR) (IWGP Tag Team Champions)
• 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)

The winners of World Tag League will challenge for the IWGP Tag Team Championship at Wrestle Kingdom 21 on January 4th, 2027. If the Knock Out Brothers win, they will decide who they face at the event.