IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Roppongi 3K (SHO & YOH) 4 5. That match would also be the debut of the, As much as Western wrestling fans love The Villain, Marty Scurll ended up having a rather uneventful 60-day stint as IWGP Junior Heavyweight champion, winning the title from Will Ospreay and dropping it back to him in a four-way match at, Debuting in 1984 and retiring in 2020, Liger has been a mainstay of the Junior division for most of his career, having held the title a record. times and having incredible matches with El Samurai, Ultimo Dragon and his 1990s blood rival, Naoki Sano. Minoru Tanaka is one of NJPW’s great Junior Heavyweight champs – both in the singles and tag divisions – but doesn’t get a lot of cred for some reason. from Jushin Liger during the period when WCW and NJPW had a working relationship and guys like Kensuke Sasaki would randomly show up on WCW television. < IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship. The 10 Worst ROH World Champions In History, NJPW: The 5 Best (& 5 Worst) IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champions, NJPW: The 10 Longest-Reigning IWGP Heavyweight Champions, NJPW: The 5 Best (& 5 Most Disappointing) IWGP Intercontinental Title Matches, Shinsuke Nakamura's 5 Best Matches In NJPW (& His 5 Best In WWE), 10 WWE Wrestlers You Didn’t Know Wrestled for NJPW, Loser Leaves WWE: 10 Wrestlers Who Got "Fired" After Losing A Match, Seth Rollins: 5 Worst Things He Did In The Authority (& 5 He Did As The Messiah), 5 Best Randy Savage Rivalries In WWE (& 5 In WCW), 10 Wrestlers Who Don't Get Along With Vince McMahon (& Why), 5 Reasons Karrion Kross Should Be NXT's Next Big Star (& 5 Reasons He Shouldn't), Hulk Hogan's Leg Drop & 9 Other Effective Finishers That Were Actually Lame, 5 Things Bret Hart Does Better Than Shawn Michaels (& 5 HBK Is Best At), 5 Times Randy Orton Was The Best Member Of The Evolution (& 5 Times He Was The Worst), FTR: The Final 10 Matches Of Their WWE Career, Ranked From Worst To Best, The 10 Best Storylines Of Randy Orton's Career, Goldberg: 5 Matches Fans Want To See (& 5 They Don't) Before He Retires, Monday Night Raw: The 5 Best (& 5 Worst) Years In History, Chris Jericho: His Final 10 WWE Matches Ranked From Worst To Best, 5 Legends Who Deserve Another WWE World Title Run (& 5 Who Should Never Get Another One), Team Raw vs. "IWGP" is the acronym of NJPW's governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix.The title was introduced on February 6, 1986 at an NJPW show.Only wrestlers under the junior heavyweight weight-limit may hold the championship.
The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Tournament Participants. Can you name the wrestlers who have been the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion for the most combined number of days? New IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Taiji Ishimori now looks to expand his trophy collection further by entering into the tag team league to boot. Guerrera never defended the title, as he suffered an injury and Liger won it back on the following week’s, Devitt’s last reign with the title would be his longest, lasting over 400 days until 2014’s, , where he’d lose the belt to Kota Ibushi. Edit. Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? General: Champion history: Title matches: Champion gallery: Champions gallery. At 628 days, Liger's sixth reign is the longest in the title's history. Winning the title from Minoru Tanaka, Naruse's run lasted only 80 days before Kendo Kashin came in and obliterated the dude with an Armbar in like 26 seconds – all because Kashin had a legit MMA victory over Ryan Gracie at the time, thus giving him momentum in NJPW’s weird Inokiist meritocracy. That said, Tanaka has held the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship four times for a total of 998 days and 20 defenses – second only to Jushin Liger in number of defenses – and also has the rare distinction of holding the other major Junior Heavyweight titles from Pro Wrestling Noah, All Japan Pro Wrestling, Wrestle-1, and Zero1. Test your knowledge on this sports quiz and compare your score to others. At Summer Struggle, Ishimori would become the brand new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, defeating Hiromu Takahashi in a brutal 13-minute affair. There isn’t a talent more arguably important to Junior Heavyweight wrestling than Jushin Thunder Liger – the only competition would be Tiger Mask and, perhaps, Rey Mysterio Jr. Debuting in 1984 and retiring in 2020, Liger has been a mainstay of the Junior division for most of his career, having held the title a record eleven times and having incredible matches with El Samurai, Ultimo Dragon and his 1990s blood rival, Naoki Sano. Despite that, thanks to modern performers like Will Ospreay and 1990s J-Crown winners like El Samurai and Ultimo Dragon, it’s commonly associated with fast-paced, high-flying action much like the Cruiserweight championships in America. These days, BUSHI is usually seen as Los Ingobernables de Japon’s third guy in six-man tags who likes to choke people with his T-shirt. , but his all-too-brief stint with the IWGP Junior belt was way too brief. “Brief” in this case meaning “it only lasted seven days.” He won the title at a random. While his regular tag team partner El Phantasmo is still absent as a result of global events, Gedo will be his partner here. A pop culture junkie, his work has appeared in such places as Spectrum Culture, Comics Bulletin, Loser City. Watch: https://t.co/q1m6LTwRnO#njpw #njsst pic.twitter.com/wvQ3sjHrPr, — NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) August 28, 2020. Before he was the randomly Back to the Future-themed star of NXT’s Cruiserweight division, KUSHIDA was the randomly Back to the Future-themed star of NJPW’s Junior Heavy division, where he’s held the title six times and had some great matches with Will Ospreay, Hiromu Takahashi, and Ricochet.

Head on over to the LWOS Boards to engage in conversation with fellow fans! … Unique lists featuring pop culture, entertainment and crazy facts. BUSHI is another fun NJPW talent who just hasn’t had much success with the Junior Heavyweight title. Generally a mid-card title, the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship is often held by more lightweight wrestlers in New Japan Pro Wrestling but is sometimes used as a stepping stone for promising competitors to move up the card.
Despite that, thanks to modern performers like. From August 5, 1996 until November 5, 1997 the title was part of the J-Crown, or J-Crown Octuple Unified Championship. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Young Bucks Kick Hangman Page Out of the Elite Following Shocking Betrayal, Fred Rosser (FKA Darren Young) To Make His NJPW Debut, #AndNEW: Madman Fulton & Ace Austin Win AAW Tag Team Title, Dragon Suplex Podcast Network: Stardom Quest Episode 7, What’s Coming To The WWE Network In October, Preview: Gatoh Move ChocoPro #52 (10/2/20). Learn how your comment data is processed. Stay tuned for official information when it becomes available. Internationally beloved thanks to his meme-worthy performances in DDT, his buzzworthy work on the American indie scene, and a brief but awesome freelance stint with WWE, Kota Ibushi is one of the great Junior Heavyweight talents to hold the IWGP Junior belt, which won three times. It was created on August 5, 1996 when The Great Sasuke won an eight-man tournament. His last name is slightly easier to pronounce than it looks. Gedo has been recently seen in NJPW as the punching bag of Kazuchika Okada.