# NJPW Names 16 for Fantasticamania 2027, Starting Feb. 17 Label: CONFIRMED Promotion: NJPW By WrestlingNews.com Staff Published Nov. 13, 2026, 9:00 AM ET URL: https://wrestlingnews.com/story/njpw-names-16-for-fantasticamania-2027-starts-feb-17-sendai/ > NJPW named 16 wrestlers on Friday, Nov. 13, for its 2027 Fantasticamania tour with CMLL. It starts Feb. 17 in Sendai and ends with three nights at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Feb. 25 to 27. No matches are set. ## The quick version - NJPW's English news page listed 16 wrestlers on Nov. 13 for NJPW Presents CMLL Fantasticamania 2027. Mistico, Mascara Dorada, Titán, Templario, Neón, Xelhua, Ultimo Guerrero, Hechicero, Soberano Jr., Averno, Black Tiger and OKUMURA are on it, along with four first-timers. - The four listed as making their Fantasticamania debut are Esfinge, Hijo del Pantera, YUTANI and El Coyote. - The tour runs eight shows from Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2027, at Sendai Sun Plaza Hall to Saturday, Feb. 27, at Korakuen Hall. NJPW has not announced matches or ticket details. New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced the 16 wrestlers for its 2027 Fantasticamania tour with CMLL on Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, on its English news page. Fightful reported the same list the same day. The tour opens in Sendai on Wednesday, Feb. 17, and ends with three nights at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo from Thursday, Feb. 25, to Saturday, Feb. 27. NJPW's Oct. 16 post says the cards and ticket details will come later. This story is built from NJPW's own posts and Fightful's report. ## The 16 names NJPW lists them in this order: Mistico, Mascara Dorada, Titán, Templario, Neón, Esfinge, Xelhua, Hijo del Pantera, Ultimo Guerrero, Hechicero, Soberano Jr., Averno, Black Tiger, YUTANI, OKUMURA and El Coyote. NJPW marks Esfinge, Hijo del Pantera, YUTANI and El Coyote as making their Fantasticamania debut. NJPW's page does not say which promotion each wrestler works for, so we do not sort them by company. Some of the names are already booked ahead of the tour. Hechicero defends the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship against Zack Sabre Jr. at Lucha Kingdom on Monday, Nov. 16, in Mexico City, and Mistico and Ultimo Guerrero face Yota Tsuji and Hirooki Goto in that show's main event. Our [Lucha Kingdom card story](https://wrestlingnews.com/story/njpw-cmll-lucha-kingdom-full-card-nov-16/) has the full card. ## The dates NJPW and CMLL published the schedule on Oct. 16. NJPW's Japanese-language page lists these dates and venues: - Wed., Feb. 17: Sendai Sun Plaza Hall, Sendai - Sat., Feb. 20: Ikeda City Satsukiyama Gymnasium, Ikeda, Osaka - Sun., Feb. 21: Osaka ATC Hall - Mon., Feb. 22: Takamatsu City General Gymnasium (second arena), Takamatsu - Tue., Feb. 23: Aichi Prefectural Budokan, Nagoya - Thu., Feb. 25: Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, 6:30 PM local - Fri., Feb. 26: Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, 6:30 PM local - Sat., Feb. 27: Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, 11:30 AM local NJPW says the Sendai show is the first Fantasticamania held in that city and the Feb. 20 show is the first in Ikeda. It adds that dates and times can change. Fightful's own Oct. 16 report listed the opening show as "February 7", which does not match NJPW's page or the CMLL schedule posts Fightful embedded, both of which say Feb. 17. We use Feb. 17. ## What is not known No matches, no title bouts and no ticket on-sale dates have been announced for Fantasticamania. NJPW says it will announce them when they are set. The tour follows NJPW's [New Beginning tour](https://wrestlingnews.com/story/njpw-sets-new-beginning-2027-tour-dates-osaka-feb-13/), which ends in Osaka on Feb. 13. **How we know.** Source: NJPW's English news post "Fantasticamania 2027 lineups confirmed" of Nov. 13, NJPW's Japanese news post of Oct. 16 for the dates and venues, and Fightful's Nov. 13 report. We read each in full. We did not open NJPW's tour or ticket pages, so the show times and venue names come from the Oct. 16 post only. We did not contact NJPW or CMLL. Nothing in this story is a rumor. ## Sources - New Japan Pro-Wrestling, "Fantasticamania 2027 lineups confirmed!", Nov. 13, 2026 (the 16 names, the debuts, the eight shows). https://www.njpw1972.com/681764 - New Japan Pro-Wrestling (Japanese site), "CMLL FANTASTICA MANIA 2027 schedule decided", Oct. 16, 2026 (dates, venues, Korakuen start times, the first shows in Sendai and Ikeda). Read in Japanese. https://www.njpw.co.jp/676534 - Fightful (Jeremy Lambert), "NJPW x CMLL Fantasticamania 2027 Lineup Announced", Nov. 13, 2026, 6:55 am, no time zone shown (the same list). https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/njpw-x-cmll-fantasticamania-2027-lineup-announced/ - Fightful (Skylar Russell), "Dates Announced For CMLL x NJPW Fantastica Mania 2027", Oct. 16, 2026, 10:15 am, no time zone shown (the schedule, the Feb. 7 error, CMLL's posts as embedded). https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/dates-announced-for-cmll-x-njpw-fantastica-mania-2027/ - WrestlingNews.com, "Lucha Kingdom Card Set: Tsuji and Goto vs. Mistico and Guerrero", Nov. 6, 2026. https://wrestlingnews.com/story/njpw-cmll-lucha-kingdom-full-card-nov-16/ - WrestlingNews.com, "NJPW Sets 11 New Beginning Dates, Ending in Osaka on Feb. 13", Nov. 7, 2026. https://wrestlingnews.com/story/njpw-sets-new-beginning-2027-tour-dates-osaka-feb-13/ - WrestlingNews.com staff reporting: compared NJPW's English and Japanese posts with Fightful's two stories, found the one date error in Fightful's Oct. 16 story, and checked our own site for an earlier Fantasticamania story (none). We did not contact NJPW or CMLL. How we credit sources: [Editorial standards](https://wrestlingnews.com/editorial-standards/).