Earlier today, New Japan announced the following teams who will compete in the 2014 World Tag League round-robin tournament. The tournament consists of 16 teams in two 8-team blocks. The tournament starts on 11/22 and will conclude on 12/7 iPPV in Aichi with the winners of the 2 blocks facing off to determine the winner of the tournament. The winner of the tournament faces IWGP Tag Team Champions Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows for the titles at the Wrestlekingdom 9 PPV on January 4, 2015 at the Tokyo Dome.
The teams competing in the 2014 New Japan World Tag League are as follows:
A Block
* IWGP Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yoshitatsu
* TenCozy (Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan)
* Tetsuya Naito & La Sombra
* Kazuchika Okada & YOSHI-HASHI
* The Bullet Club (AJ Styles & Yujiro Takahashi)
* IWGP Tag Team Champions Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows
* Rob Conway & Jax Dane (NWA)
* The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Michael Bennett) w/Maria Kanellis (ROH)
B Block
* Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma)
* Blue Justice Army (Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi)
* Meiyu Tag (Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata)
* CHAOS (IWGP Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura & NEVER Champion Tomohiro Ishii)
* Toru Yano & Kazushi Sakaruba
* Suzuki-Gun (Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka)
* Killer Elite Squad (Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr.)
* The Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga)
Source: Puroresu Spirit