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stylized as UNITED EMPIRE, originally and occasionally still called Ji Enpaia, is a professional wrestling faction predominately performing in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), but also have members in All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). The stable is led by Callum Newman.
The group was formed in October 2020 by Will Ospreay and Great-O-Khan, when Ospreay turned on his Chaos stablemate Kazuchika Okada during the G1 Climax. Fellow NJPW wrestlers Jeff Cobb and Aaron Henare would join, as well as freelancers TJP and Francesco Akira, and the team of Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis known as Aussie Open, and "Lord" Gideon Grey from RevPro.
At Castle Attack, United Empire beat the team of Hiroshi Tanahashi and Tencozy on night one, but were unable to win their matches on night two. Ospreay and Cobb lost to Tencozy, while O-Khan failed to capture the NEVER Openweight Championship from Tanahashi. In March, Ospreay won the 2021 New Japan Cup after defeating Shingo Takagi. After the match, Ospreay hit a Os-Cutter on Bea Priestley, kicking her out of the United Empire and saying that he was "only looking out for number one" from now on. Toa Henare, now going by the ring name Aaron Henare, would become the fourth man to join the faction at Sakura Genesis 2021. On the same show Ospreay would defeat Kota Ibushi to win the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. At Wrestling Dontaku, Ospreay made his first defense of the title when he defeated Shingo Takagi. However, Ospreay would later vacate the title after sustaining a neck injury. He would make his return at NJPW Resurgence, claiming to be the "real world champion", and announcing to not be returning to Japan for that years G1 Climax. In September at the Revolution Pro Wrestling High Stakes event, Ospreay recruited Aussie Open (Mark Davis and Kyle Fletcher) to the group. The following month during NJPW Strong's Autumn Attack, TJP betrayed the LA Dojo and joined United Empire as their first Junior Heavyweight member.
Despite Ospreay's absence, both O'Khan and Cobb would enter the tournament in the A and B block respectively. O'Khan would finish in the bottom half of his block, scoring just 8 points, however, Cobb would break records in his block, going undefeated for 8 straight wins, before losing on the final deciders to Kazuchika Okada on Day 18, whom he had traded back and forth wins with over the second half of the year.
At Wrestle Kingdom 16, Ospreay being the previous champion and not directly losing his title, would get a shot at the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against the winner of Shingo Takagi and Kazuchika Okada on night two, where he would lose to Okada. Both O-Khan and Cobb would also lose their respective matches to Sanada and Tetsuya Naito, respectively. United Empire would take part in the New Japan Cup, where Ospreay, O-Khan, Cobb and Aaron Henare would proceed to the second round with wins over Bushi, Kota Ibushi, Togi Makabe and Yuto Nakanishima, respectively. Ibushi was injured at the time and O-Khan would win by forfeit. Ospreay, O-Khan and Cobb would move to the third round with wins over El Phantasmo, Taiji Ishimori and Kosei Fujita, respectively. Henare was eliminated after losing to Sanada. Ospreay and Cobb would qualify for the quarter finals with wins over Yoshi-Hashi and Sanada, respectively while O-Khan would lose to Zack Sabre Jr. Both Ospreay and Cobb were eliminated in the semi-final after losing to Tetsuya Naito and Zack Sabre Jr., respectively. After the New Japan Cup, Ospreay would start scouting the Junior Heavyweight division and at Hyper Battle he would recruit Francesco Akira as the newest member.
On the May 25th episode of AEW Dynamite, Cobb and O'Khan interrupted the ROH World Tag Team Championship match between, FTR and Roppongi Vice causing a disqualification by attacking both teams, with Cobb returning to All Elite Wrestling for the first time since 2019 and O'Khan making his debut. They raised the titles, indicating the intention of challenging for the championships. The stable returned two weeks later, on the June 8th episode of Dynamite, this time with Ospreay, Henare, Fletcher and Davis making their AEW debuts, attacking Trent Beretta and FTR. Ospreay competed in his first singles match at the June 15th special episode of Dynamite, Road Rager, where he defeated Dax Harwood. After the match Ospreay and United Empire stablemates attacked FTR and Roppongi Vice once more, only to be interrupted by Orange Cassidy, who stared down Ospreay. Soon after a singles match between both men was scheduled for , for Ospreay's newly won IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, along with a triple-threat tag-team match, between FTR, Roppongi Vice and O-Khan and Cobb, for the ROH World Tag Team Championships and O-Khan and Cobb's newly won IWGP Tag Team Championships. At the event, Cobb and O-Khan lost the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships to FTR, yet Will Ospreay retained his IWGP United States Championship against Orange Cassidy. After the match Aussie Open and Ospreay continued to attack Cassidy and Roppongi Vice, however were interrupted by Katsuyori Shibata, who saved Cassidy from the trio.
On the June 19th edition of NJPW Strong, Aussie Open competed in a tournament to crown the inaugural Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship. In the first round, they defeated The Dark Order's Evil Uno and Alan Angels and they defeated the Stray Dog Army in the semi-finals. In the finals at , Davis and Fletcher defeated Christopher Daniels and Yuya Uemura to become the inaugural champions.
On July 27, the AEW World Trios Championship was revealed, with Ospreay and Aussie Open being named as participants in the inaugural tournament. On August 24, Ospreay and Aussie Open defeated Death Triangle to progress to the semifinals, where they were defeated by The Elite on August 31. After the match, United Empire attacked The Elite.
United Empire made their Impact Wrestling debut on the September 8th edition of Impact!, when Aussie Open defeated Bullet Club Chris Bey and Ace Austin.
On March 26, 2023, at Revolution Rumble, a show promoted by Revolution Pro Wrestling, Dan Moloney defeated United Empire's Akira in singles competition. Immediately following the match, an impressed Will Ospreay appeared and extended Moloney an invitation to join the faction, which was accepted.
On May 24, 2023, AEW owner Tony Khan announced that both Fletcher and Davis had signed contracts joining AEW. This would officially bring the faction to AEW. Ospreay would be announced to sign several months later. During their tenure in AEW, Ospreay and Fletcher were also part of The Don Callis Family, but would still represent the United Empire in AEW.
Following Catch 2/2's claim of their second IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship on June 4 at Dominion 6.4 in Osaka-jo Hall, the duo was confronted by Bullet Club's Clark Connors. This led to Dan Moloney attacking the duo from behind, betraying United Empire and joining Connors in Bullet Club.
On April 27, O-Khan lost the Provisional KOPW Championship to Yuya Uemura. On May 3 at , Cobb defeated Zack Sabre Jr. to win the NJPW World Television Championship. On June 9 at Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall, O-Khan defeated Uemura in a Storm Catch Rules match to regain the provisional KOPW Championship. On June 16, Henare defeated Shingo Takagi to win the NEVER Openweight Championship.
From July 20 and August 14, four members of United Empire took part in the 2024 G1 Climax, with only O-Khan managing to advance from his group to the A block play-off match, where he was defeated by Shingo Takagi on August 15. Five days later, Jakob Austin Young was announced as the stable's newest member. On September 29 at Destruction in Kobe, Henare lost the NEVER Openweight Championship to Shingo Takagi after initially winning it from him back in January. On October 14 at King of Pro-Wrestling, Cobb lost the NJPW World Television Championship to Ren Narita in a three-way match, also involving Yota Tsuji.
From October 24 to November 2, Akira and TJP took part in the 2024 Super Jr. Tag League, finishing the tournament with a record three wins and two losses, advancing to the finals. On November 4 at Power Struggle, Henare and O-Khan defeated TMDK's Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship. Later that night, Akira and TJP were defeated by Kosei Fujita and Robbie Eagles also of TMDK, in the finals of the 2024 Super Jr. Tag League. On December 6, it was announced that the IWGP Tag Team Championship would be vacated, due to Henare suffering a right knee injury. On December 9, Templario was invited into the stable by TJP, which he accepted, becoming the stable's eight member.
At Wrestle Kingdom 20 on January 4, 2026, Jake Lee was revealed as the second mystery partner and subsequently joined the United Empire, leaving the War Dogs in the process. United Empire went on to defeat the War Dogs and the Unaffiliated; post-match, Akira made his NJPW return after 7 months. The following night at New Year Dash, United Empire were victorious in both their matches as Andrade, Akira and Young defeated Hiromu, Gabe Kidd and Clark Connors in a six-man tag team match, and Newman, Henare, O-Khan and Jake Lee defeated Finlay, Moloney, Takagi and Yota Tsuji in an eight-man tag team match. After the eight-man tag team match, Ospreay made his United Empire return and embraced original members O-Khan and Henare before saying that once he is fully healed and through with his duties in AEW, he will come back to NJPW to help the Empire. Newman would then tease attacking Ospreay but was stopped by O-Khan and Henare. During the Road to the New Beginning tour on January 19, Newman interfered in a Young Lion Cup match between Daiki Nagai and Zane Jay. Newman offered a steel chair to Jay, which Jay accepted, proceeding to hit it over Nagai's head, turning heel and joining the United Empire. On January 29, 2026 at MLW Battle Riot VIII, Templario lost the MLW World Middleweight Championship to Yujiro Kushida.
| Andrade El Idolo | December 22, 2025 | ||
| Callum Newman | III | ||
| Francesco Akira | |||
| Great-O-Khan | * | ||
| Toa Henare | |||
| / | Jake Lee | January 4, 2026 | |
| Jakob Austin Young | |||
| Templario | |||
| Will Ospreay | * I | October 16, 2020 | |
| Zane Jay |
| * | ||||
| Gideon Grey | August 22, 2022 | November 20, 2022 | ||
| Dan Moloney | ||||
| Kyle Fletcher | September 19, 2021 | October 12, 2024 | ||
| Mark Davis | September 19, 2021 | February 5, 2025 | ||
| November 15, 2020 | April 19, 2025 | |||
| / | TJP | II |
| Aussie Open | Kyle Fletcher Mark Davis | 2021β2024 | Tag team |
| Catch 2/2 | TJP Francesco Akira | 2022β2025 | Tag team |
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