What if Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 had a bigger roster?
Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 will always be my all-time favourite AKI wrestling game. Great gameplay and of course packed with a really good roster at the time. But I wonder what if the game had a bigger roster (including the All Japan wrestlers with their preset faces and ring announcer calls that were removed from the final build roster). So here is the potential roster based on the scene from April to October of 1999.
* - New wrestler
AJPW 1
- Giant Baba
- Mitsuharu Misawa
- Yoshinari Ogawa
- Masahito Kakihara
- Kenta Kobashi
- Jun Akiyama
- Kentaro Shiga
AJPW 2
- Toshiaki Kawada
- Akira Taue
- Takao Omori
- Yoshihiro Takayama
- Hiroshi Hase
- Jun Izumida
- Maunakea Mossman
AJPW 3
- Big Van Vader
- Stan Hansen
- Johnny Ace
- Mike Barton
- Gary Albright
- Johnny Smith
- Giant Kimala
- Scorpio *
- Jim Steele *
- George Hines *
AJPW 4
- Tsuyoshi Kikuchi *
- Mitsuo Momota *
- Masanobu Fuchi *
- Haruka Eigen *
- Rusher Kimura *
- Mighty Inoue *
AJPW 5
- Satoru Asako *
- Masao Inoue *
- Naomichi Marufuji *
- Makoto Hashi *
- Yoshinobu Kanemaru *
- Takeshi Morishima *
- Tamon Honda *
NJPW 1
- Shinya Hashimoto
- Tatsumi Fujinami
- Kensuke Sasaki
- Shiro Koshinaka
- Manabu Nakanishi
- Yuji Nagata
- Kazuo Yamazaki
- Tadao Yasuda *
nWo JAPAN / TEAM 2000
- Masahiro Chono
- Keiji Mutoh
- Hiroyoshi Tenzan
- Satoshi Kojima
- Hiro Saito
- Scott Norton
- AKIRA *
- Super J *
- Big Titan *
- Tatsutoshi Goto *
- Michiyoshi Ohara *
NJPW 3
- Kengo Kimura *
- Osamu Nishimura *
- Osamu Kido *
- Junji Hirata / Super Strong Machine *
- Takayuki Iizuka *
- Brian Johnston *
- Meng *
- Black Cat *
NJPW JR
- Jushin Thunder Liger
- El Samurai
- Kendo Kashin
- Dr. Wagner Jr.
- Shinjiro Otani
- Tatsuhito Takaiwa
- Koji Kanemoto
- Wild Pegasus *
- Dean Malenko *
NJPW 5
- Masakazu Fukuda *
- Kazuyuki Fujita *
- Katsuyori Shibata *
- Hiroshi Tanahashi *
- Shinya Makabe *
- Wataru Inoue *
- Yutaka Yoshie *
FMW / IWA / WAR / BJW
- Hayabusa
- Masato Tanaka
- Kodo Fuyuki
- Mr. Gannosuke
- Jado
- Gedo
- Gladiator
- Genichiro Tenryu
- Kintaro Kanemura *
- Mitsuhiro Matsunaga *
- Sabu *
- Yoshihiro Tajiri *
- Koji Kitahara *
- Shigeo Okumura *
- Flying Kid Ichihara *
- Hisakatsu Oya *
- Tomohiro Ishii *
- Shigeo Okumura *
- Tetsuhiro Kuroda *
- Koji Nakagawa *
- Yoshinori Sasaki *
- Ricky Fuji *
- Shoji Nakamaki *
- Hideki Hosaka *
- Nobutaka Araya *
- Daikokubo Benkei *
- Shadow WX *
- Masayoshi Motegi *
- Tomoaki Honma *
- Jun Kasai *
- Ryuji Yamakawa *
- Koji Nakagawa *
- Hido *
- Headhunter A *
- Headhunter B *
Toryumon Japan / Michinoku Pro / Osaka Pro
- Great Sasuke
- Jinsei Shinzaki
- TAKA Michinoku
- Gran Naniwa
- Super Delfin
- Magnum TOKYO
- CIMA
- Dragon Kid
- Men's TEIOH *
- Dick Togo *
- Tsubo Genjin *
- Daiyu Kawauchi *
- TARU *
- SUWA *
- Sumo Fuji *
- SAITO *
- Super Boy *
- Masao Orihara *
- Tiger Mask IV *
- Minoru Fujita *
- Masato Yakushiji *
- Kuishinbo Kamen *
- Black Buffalo *
- Tsubasa *
- Masaru Seno *
- Yoshihito Sugamoto*
- Katsushi Takemura *
- Naohiro Hoshikawa *
- Curry Man *
AJW / JWP / GAEA / ARSION / NEO / LLPW
- Manami Toyota *
- Akira Hokuto *
- Mayumi Ozaki *
- Meiko Satomura *
- Megumi Kudo *
- Megumi Ozaki *
- Sakura Hirota *
- Miyuki Fujii *
- Mima Shimoda *
- Ayako Hamada *
- Mariko Yoshida *
- Rie Tamada *
- Faby Apache *
- AKINO *
- Chikayo Nagashima *
- Aja Kong *
- Devil Masami *
- Ran Yuyu *
- Carlos Amano *
- KAORU *
- Kyoko Inoue *
- Michiko Omukai *
- Command Bolshoi *
- Nanae Takahashi *
- Kumiko Maekawa *
- Momoe Nakanishi *
- Miho Kakizawa *
- Takako Inoue *
- Azumi Hyuga *
- Yumiko Hotta *
- Chaparrita Asari *
- Kiyoko Ichiki *
- Chihiro Nakano *
- Kaoru Ito *
- Carol Midori *
- Eagle Sawai *
- Harley Saito *
- Sumie Sakai *
- Dynamite Kansai *
- Dump Matsumoto *
- Lioness Asuka *
- Jaguar Yokota *
- Bison Kimura *
- Chigusa Nagayo *
- Bull Nakano *
RINGS
- Kiyoshi Tamura
- Tsuyoshi Kosaka
- Bitsadze Tariel
- Volk Han
- Masayuki Naruse *
- Dick Vrij *
- Fedor Emelianenko *
- Hiromitsu Kanehara *
- Wataru Sakata *
- Hans Nijman *
- Yoshihisa Yamamoto *
PANCRASE
- Masakatsu Funaki
- Yoshiki Takahashi
- Minoru Suzuki
- Kengo Watanabe
- Semmy Schilt
- Yuki Kondo *
- Sanae Kikuta *
- Ikuhisa Minowa *
- Ryushi Yanagisawa *
- Genki Sudo *
- Manabu Yamada *
PRIDE / SHOOTO
- Nobuhiko Takada
- Kazushi Sakuraba
- Enson Inoue
- Rumina Sato
- Mark Coleman *
- Vanderlei Silva *
- Kazunari Murakami *
- Takanori Gomi *
- Yoji Anjo *
- Guy Mezger *
- Royce Gracie *
- Kaoru Uno *
- Takaharu Murahama *
- Takehiro Murahama *
- Alexandre Nogueira *
- Akira Shoji *
- Gary Goodridge *
- Igor Vovchanchyn *
BATTLARTS
- Yuki Ishikawa
- Alexander Otsuka
- Daisuke Ikeda
- Minoru Tanaka
- Mohammed Yone *
- Takeshi Ono *
- Naoki Sano *
- Mach Junji *
- Masaaki Mochizuki *
- Katsumi Usuda *
- Ryuji Hijikata *
- Ikuto Hidaka *
- Mitsuya Nagai *
LEGENDS 1
- Jumbo Tsuruta
- Mil Mascaras
- Terry Funk
- Dory Funk Jr.
- Terry Gordy
- Steve Williams
- Bruiser Brody
- Abdullah The Butcher
- The Great Kabuki
- Killer Khan
- Dos Caras
- Rikidozan *
- Leatherface *
- Tiger Toguchi *
LEGENDS 2
- Andre the Giant
- Akira Maeda
- Aleksandr Karelin
- Rickson Gracie
- Mark Kerr
- Bas Rutten
- The Great Muta
- Ultimo Dragon
- Royce Gracie *
- Gerard Gordeau*
- Koji Kitao *
- Ken Shamrock *
- Maurice Smith *
- Ernesto Hoost *
- Andy Hug *
- Masashi Aoyagi *
LEGENDS 3
- Antonio Inoki
- Tiger Mask
- Naoya Ogawa
- Riki Choshu
- Don Frye
- Atsushi Onita
- Yoshiaki Fujiwara
- Masa Saito *
- Yoshiaki Yatsu *
- Kotetsu Yamamoto *
- Kantaro Hoshino *
- Mr. Pogo *
- Tarzan Goto *
- Seiji Sakaguchi *
- Kuniaki Kobayashi *
- Gran Hamada *
LEGENDS 4
- Lou Thesz *
- Karl Gotch *
- The Destroyer *
- Roland Bock *
- Black Tiger *
- The Sheik *
- Salman Hashimikov *
- The Patriot *
- Dynamite Kid *
- Tiger Jeet Singh *