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Super Junior Tag League

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The Super Junior Tag League is a professional wrestling tag team tournament held by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW).

Established in 2010, but preceded by the G1 Climax Junior Heavyweight Tag League in 2001 (won by El Samurai and Jushin Thunder Liger), it is the junior heavyweight equivalent of the World Tag League for heavyweight tag teams.[1] From 2010 to 2017, it was named the Super Junior Tag Tournament and followed a single-elimination format, before becoming the Super Junior Tag League in 2018, switching to a round-robin format. Since the tournament's inception, there were two years where the tournament did not take place—in 2011 and 2020 (due to major changes to NJPW's schedule during the COVID-19 pandemic).

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Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling is a form of theater that revolves around mock combat matches that are usually performed in a ring similar to the kind used in boxing. The dramatic aspects of pro wrestling may be performed both in the ring or—as in televised wrestling shows—in backstage areas of the venue, in similar form to reality television.

Tag team

Tag team

Tag team wrestling is a type of professional wrestling in which matches are contested between teams of multiple wrestlers. Tag teams may be made up of wrestlers who normally wrestle in singles competition, but more commonly are made of established teams who wrestle regularly as a unit and have a team name and identity.

Professional wrestling tournament

Professional wrestling tournament

On various occasions in professional wrestling, a single-elimination tournament of varying match types are held, often to determine a championship or number-one contendership therein. It has been known for promotions to use title tournament that are fictitious in nature - notable ones include the tournaments that established the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, the WWE Intercontinental Championship, and the WWE United States Championship.

New Japan Pro-Wrestling

New Japan Pro-Wrestling

New Japan Pro-Wrestling Co., Ltd. (NJPW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion based in Nakano, Tokyo. Founded on January 13, 1972, by Antonio Inoki, the promotion was sold to Yuke's, who later sold it to Bushiroad in 2012. TV Asahi and Amuse, Inc. own minority shares of the company. Naoki Sugabayashi has served as the promotion's Chairman since September 2013, while Takami Ohbari has served as the president of the promotion since October 2020.

El Samurai

El Samurai

Osamu Matsuda is a Japanese professional wrestler who is best known for his work in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and is better known by his stage name El Samurai.

Jushin Liger

Jushin Liger

Keiichi Yamada , better known as Jushin Liger and later Jushin Thunder Liger , is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is the longest-tenured member of the NJPW roster, having wrestled for the company since his debut in 1984 until his retirement in January 2020. Throughout his career, which spanned three-and-a-half decades, he wrestled over 4,000 matches and performed in major events for various promotions across the globe.

Cruiserweight (professional wrestling)

Cruiserweight (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling, a cruiserweight is a wrestler who competes in a Cruiserweight division. The term was first coined in United States in 1996 by World Championship Wrestling. Prior to this, the terms "Light Heavyweight" and "Junior Heavyweight" were more commonly in use. The older term junior heavyweight is still favored in Japan, where many titles for lighter-weight competitors are called junior heavyweight titles. Prominent titles include New Japan Pro-Wrestling's IWGP, Pro Wrestling Noah's GHC, and All Japan Pro Wrestling's World championships.

World Tag League (NJPW)

World Tag League (NJPW)

The World Tag League is a professional wrestling round-robin tag team tournament held by New Japan Pro-Wrestling as a spin-off of the popular singles tournament, the G1 Climax. It was created in 1991 as the Super Grade Tag League, as a continuation of a regular tag team tournament held since 1980, gaining the name G1 Tag League in 1999. In 2012, NJPW's new owners, the Bushiroad company, renamed the tournament to its current form. Since the tournament acquired its current name, the winning team earns the right to challenge for the IWGP Tag Team Championship at the following year's Wrestle Kingdom, assuming the team does not hold the title at the time of their victory.

Single-elimination tournament

Single-elimination tournament

A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion. Each match-up may be a single match or several, for example two-legged ties in European sports or best-of series in American pro sports. Defeated competitors may play no further part after losing, or may participate in "consolation" or "classification" matches against other losers to determine the lower final rankings; for example, a third place playoff between losing semi-finalists. In a shootout poker tournament, there are more than two players competing at each table, and sometimes more than one progressing to the next round. Some competitions are held with a pure single-elimination tournament system. Others have many phases, with the last being a single-elimination final stage, often called playoffs.

Round-robin tournament

Round-robin tournament

A round-robin tournament is a competition in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn. A round-robin contrasts with an elimination tournament, in which participants/teams are eliminated after a certain number of losses.

COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of 10 March 2023, the pandemic had caused more than 676 million cases and 6.88 million confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history.

Super Junior Tag Tournament (2010–2017)

Tournament Year Winner SJTT won
(team) 		SJTT won
(individual) 		Final venue Ref.
Super J Tag Tournament 2010 El Samurai and Koji Kanemoto 1 1, 1 JCB Hall [2]
Super Jr. Tag Tournament 2012 Time Splitters
(Alex Shelley and Kushida)		 1 1, 1 Korakuen Hall [3]
Super Jr. Tag Tournament 2013 The Young Bucks
(Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson)		 1 1, 1 Korakuen Hall [4]
Super Jr. Tag Tournament 2014 reDRagon
(Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly)		 1 1, 1 Gifu Industry Hall [5]
Super Jr. Tag Tournament 2015 Matt Sydal and Ricochet 1 1, 1 Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium [6]
Super Jr. Tag Tournament 2016 Roppongi Vice
(Beretta and Rocky Romero)		 1 1, 1 Edion Arena Osaka [7]
Super Jr. Tag Tournament 2017 Roppongi 3K
(Sho and Yoh)		 1 1, 1 Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium [8]

2010

Super J Tag Tournament was a one-night professional wrestling tournament hosted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling and took place on May 8.[9] Most of the wrestlers involved were signed to New Japan but did feature wrestlers from other promotions like Mascara Dorada & Valiente from Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, Kota Ibushi from Dramatic Dream Team, Fujita Hayato and Taro Nohashi from Michinoku Pro Wrestling, and Kushida from Smash.[10]

El Samurai and Koji Kanemoto defeated Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) to win the tournament and become IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.

Results
Round 1 Semifinals Final
         
Fujita Hayato and Taro Nohashi Pin
Jushin Thunder Liger and Nobuo Yoshihashi 10:51[2]
Fujita Hayato and Taro Nohashi Sub
El Samurai and Koji Kanemoto 12:45[2]
El Samurai and Koji Kanemoto Sub
Davey Richards and Tama Tonga 10:50[2]
El Samurai and Koji Kanemoto Pin
Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi 21:27[2]
Gedo and Kushida Pin
Austin Creed and Kota Ibushi 13:18[2]
Gedo and Kushida Pin
Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi 11:36[2]
Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi Pin
Mascara Dorada and Valiente 7:59[2]

2012

Super Jr. Tag Tournament 2012 was a two-night professional wrestling tournament hosted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling. The preliminary round took place on October 21 and the semi-final and final took place on November 2.[11] The tournament utilized wrestlers mostly signed to New Japan but also included Negro Casas from Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, Taka Michinoku from Kaientai Dojo, and freelancer Brian Kendrick.[12]

Time Splitters (Alex Shelley and Kushida) defeated Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) to win the tournament and become the number one contenders to the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.[13] They challenged the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero) to a title match at Power Struggle on November 11.

Results
Round 1 Semifinals Final
         
Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask Pin
Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero 9:28[14]
Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero Pin
Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi 9:19[3]
Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi Pin
Brian Kendrick and Low Ki 10:03[14]
Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi Pin
Alex Shelley and Kushida 16:42[3]
Alex Shelley and Kushida Pin
Jado and Gedo 13:26[14]
Alex Shelley and Kushida Pin
Taichi and Taka Michinoku 8:13[3]
Bushi and Negro Casas Pin
Taichi and Taka Michinoku 10:24[14]

2013

The 2013 Super Jr. Tag Tournament was a two-night professional wrestling tournament hosted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling. The preliminary round took take place on October 25 and the semi-final and final on November 6.[15] The debuting Young Bucks won the tournament and on November 9 at Power Struggle, defeated Taichi and Taka Michinoku to also win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.

Results
Round 1 Semifinals Final
         
Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask Pin
Jado and Gedo 9:16[16]
Jado and Gedo Pin
The Young Bucks 9:31[4]
Beretta and Brian Kendrick Pin
The Young Bucks 10:35[16]
The Young Bucks Pin
Forever Hooligans 19:13[4]
Kushida and Yohei Komatsu Pin
Bushi and Valiente 9:37[16]
Bushi and Valiente Pin
Forever Hooligans 10:28[4]
Forever Hooligans Pin
Taichi and Taka Michinoku 9:06[16]

2014

The 2014 Super Jr. Tag Tournament was a four-night professional wrestling tournament hosted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling. The preliminary round took place on October 25, the semifinals on November 1 and 2, and the final on November 3.[17] For the third year in a row, the tournament's winning team, reDRagon, went on to also capture the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship at Power Struggle.

Results
Round 1 Semifinals Final
         
Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask Pin
The Young Bucks 8:32[18]
The Young Bucks Pin
El Desperado and Taichi 12:04[19]
Fuego and Ryusuke Taguchi Pin
El Desperado and Taichi 12:19[18]
The Young Bucks Pin
reDRagon 15:04[5]
Time Splitters Pin
Forever Hooligans 15:43[18]
Forever Hooligans Pin
reDRagon 15:03[20]
Bushi and Máscara Dorada Pin
reDRagon 10:21[18]

2015

Ricochet and Matt Sydal upon winning the tournament in 2015
Ricochet and Matt Sydal upon winning the tournament in 2015

The 2015 Super Jr. Tag Tournament is a three-night professional wrestling tournament hosted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling. The preliminary round took place on October 24, the semifinals on November 1, and the final on November 7 at Power Struggle.[21]

Results
Round 1 Semifinals Final
         
Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask Pin
reDRagon 10:24[22]
reDRagon Pin
Roppongi Vice 20:06[23]
Roppongi Vice Pin
Chase Owens and Kenny Omega 13:11[22]
Roppongi Vice Pin
Matt Sydal and Ricochet 16:06[6]
Máscara Dorada and Ryusuke Taguchi Pin
The Young Bucks 11:08[22]
The Young Bucks Pin
Matt Sydal and Ricochet 12:05[23]
Time Splitters Pin
Matt Sydal and Ricochet 18:48[22]

2016

Roppongi Vice upon winning the tournament in 2016
Roppongi Vice upon winning the tournament in 2016

The 2016 Super Jr. Tag Tournament was a four-night professional wrestling tournament hosted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling. The preliminary round took place on October 21 and 25, the semifinals on October 30, and the final on November 5 at Power Struggle.[24]

Results
Round 1 Semifinals Final
         
Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask Sub
Fuego and Ryusuke Taguchi 9:55[25]
Fuego and Ryusuke Taguchi Pin
Roppongi Vice 15:26[27]
Ángel de Oro and Titán Pin
Roppongi Vice 12:55[25]
Roppongi Vice Pin
ACH and Taiji Ishimori 18:49[7]
David Finlay Jr. and Ricochet Pin
Gedo and Will Ospreay 8:47[26]
David Finlay and Ricochet Pin
ACH and Taiji Ishimori 15:57[27]
A. C. H. and Taiji Ishimori Pin
The Young Bucks 17:40[25]

2017

Roppongi 3K upon winning the tournament in 2017
Roppongi 3K upon winning the tournament in 2017

The 2017 Super Jr. Tag Tournament was a four-night professional wrestling tournament hosted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling. The preliminary round took place on October 23 and 29, the semifinals on October 30, and the final on November 5 at Power Struggle.[28]

Results
Round 1 Semifinals Final
         
Hirai Kawato and Kushida Pin
Roppongi 3K 12:39[29]
Roppongi 3K Pin
Bushi and Hiromu Takahashi 20:34[31]
Dragon Lee and Titán Pin
Bushi and Hiromu Takahashi 20:20[29]
Roppongi 3K Pin
ACH and Ryusuke Taguchi 15:51[8]
Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask Pin
El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru 17:28[30]
El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru Pin
ACH and Ryusuke Taguchi 17:06[31]
A. C. H. and Ryusuke Taguchi Pin
Taichi and Taka Michinoku 18:42[30]

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El Samurai

El Samurai

Osamu Matsuda is a Japanese professional wrestler who is best known for his work in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and is better known by his stage name El Samurai.

Koji Kanemoto

Koji Kanemoto

Kōji Kanemoto is a Japanese professional wrestler of Zainichi Korean descent. He has previously worked with New Japan Pro-Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling. He is currently a freelancer.

Alex Shelley

Alex Shelley

Patrick Kenneth Martin is an American professional wrestler and physical therapy clinician, better known by the ring name, Alex Shelley, makes appearances with Impact Wrestling, where he is a former one-time X Division Champion and two-time World Tag Team Champion.

Korakuen Hall

Korakuen Hall

Korakuen Hall is a famous sports arena in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan, which has hosted many notable boxing, professional wrestling, kickboxing, mixed martial arts and Lethwei matches.

ReDRagon

ReDRagon

reDRagon was a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly, formed in 2012, and lasting until September 1st, 2022 when Fish quietly left All Elite Wrestling (AEW). They are also known for their work in Ring of Honor (ROH), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and WWE. In WWE, they wrestled together under the name The Undisputed Era, their stable with Adam Cole; the three still form the stable as The Undisputed Elite since leaving WWE, although Fish and O'Reilly had resumed using the named reDRagon when working as a duo.

Bobby Fish

Bobby Fish

Robert Anthony Fish is an American professional wrestler currently appearing on the independent circuit. He is best known for his tenure with WWE, where he performed on the NXT brand and was a member of The Undisputed Era. In WWE, he is a former 2-time NXT Tag Team Champion alongside his tag team partner Kyle O'Reilly. He is also known for his time with All Elite Wrestling (AEW) from 2021–2022 and Ring of Honor (ROH) from 2013 to 2017, where he wrestled as one-half of the tag team reDRagon and held the ROH World Tag Team Championship three times and the ROH World Television Championship once. He is also known for his appearances in Japan both for Pro Wrestling Noah and for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he held the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship twice.

Kyle O'Reilly

Kyle O'Reilly

Kyle Emmanuel Greenwood is a Canadian professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) where he performs under the ring name Kyle O'Reilly. He is also known for his time in Ring of Honor (ROH) from 2009 to 2017, and WWE where he performed on the NXT brand from 2017 to 2021, both of which he used the same ring name. He is a record three-time NXT Tag Team Champion, and was a founding member of The Undisputed Era.

Matt Sydal

Matt Sydal

Matthew Joseph Korklan, better known by the ring name Matt Sydal, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He is also known for his time in WWE from 2008 to 2014 under the ring name Evan Bourne.

Ricochet (wrestler)

Ricochet (wrestler)

Trevor Dean Mann is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Ricochet.

Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium is an indoor sporting arena located in Namba, Osaka, Japan. It first opened in 1952 and the current building was constructed in 1987. It is the venue of a professional sumo tournament (honbasho) held in March every year. The capacity of the arena is 8,000 people. Its total revenue for the 2006 fiscal year was 260 million yen, of which sumo provided 80 million.

Rocky Romero

Rocky Romero

John R. Rivera is a Puerto Rican-American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist. He is currently signed non-exclusively to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), better known by his ring name Rocky Romero. Rivera is known for his tenure as the fourth incarnation of Black Tiger and for his accomplishments as a tag team wrestler. He was member of tag teams like The Havana Pitbulls/Los Cubanitos, No Remorse Corps, Forever Hooligans, and Roppongi Vice. Rivera made his in-ring debut on September 13, 1997 and over the years portrayed several different characters, including the masked characters Havana Brother I, Black Tiger and Grey Shadow and has wrestled extensively in Mexico. In the United States he is most known for his work with Ring of Honor and was one of the featured wrestlers for Lucha Libre USA.

Roppongi 3K

Roppongi 3K

Roppongi 3K was a professional wrestling tag team made up of Japanese wrestlers Sho and Yoh, active from 2013 to 2021 in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in the Junior Heavyweight Tag Team division. They were managed by Rocky Romero from late 2017 till their breakup. They are former five-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.

Super Junior Tag League (2018–present)

Tournament Year Winner SJTL won
(team) 		SJTL won
(individual) 		Final venue Ref. Total won
(team) 		Total won
(individual)
Super Jr. Tag League 2018 Roppongi 3K
(Sho and Yoh)		 1 1, 1 Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium [32] 2 2, 2
Super Jr. Tag League 2019 Roppongi 3K
(Sho and Yoh)		 2 2, 2 Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium [33] 3 3, 3
Super Jr. Tag League 2021 El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru 1 1, 1 Korakuen Hall [34] 1 1, 1
Super Jr. Tag League 2022 LiYoh
(Lio Rush and Yoh)		 1 3, 1 Sendai Sunplaza Hall [35] 1 4, 1

2018

The 2018 Super Jr. Tag League was a thirteen-night professional wrestling tournament hosted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling. It featured eight teams in a single block. Block matches were held from October 16 to November 1, 2018 with the first and second placed teams advancing to the final, on November 3, at Power Struggle. Due to a three-way tie at the top of the standings, the final was a three-way tag team match between the qualified teams.

Final standings
El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru 10
Bushi and Shingo Takagi 10
Sho and Yoh 10
Taiji Ishimori and Robbie Eagles 6
Kushida and Chris Sabin 6
Ryusuke Taguchi and A. C. H. 6
Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask 4
Volador Jr. and Soberano Jr. 4
Results Bushi
Takagi		 Liger
Tiger		 Kushida
Sabin		 Taguchi
A. C. H.		 Volador
Soberano		 Sho
Yoh		 Ishimori
Eagles		 Kanemaru
Desperado
Bushi
Takagi 		— Liger
Tiger
(10:30)		 Bushi
Takagi
(16:53)		 Bushi
Takagi
(12:20)		 Bushi
Takagi
(13:42)		 Bushi
Takagi
(21:18)		 Bushi
Takagi
(14:00)		 Kanemaru
Desperado
(18:04)
Liger
Tiger 		Liger
Tiger
(10:30)		 — Kushida
Sabin
(10:20)		 ACH
Taguchi
(12:42)		 Liger
Tiger
(11:06)		 Sho
Yoh
(11:33)		 Ishimori
Eagles
(11:04)		 Kanemaru
Desperado
(11:55)
Kushida
Sabin 		Bushi
Takagi
(16:53)		 Kushida
Sabin
(10:20)		 — Kushida
Sabin
(13:58)		 Kushida
Sabin
(10:32)		 Sho
Yoh
(15:18)		 Ishimori
Eagles
(12:31)		 Kanemaru
Desperado
(14:40)
Taguchi
A. C. H. 		Bushi
Takagi
(12:20)		 ACH
Taguchi
(12:42)		 Kushida
Sabin
(13:58)		 — Volador
Soberano
(10:33)		 ACH
Taguchi
(18:33)		 Ishimori
Eagles
(13:33)		 ACH
Taguchi
(13:17)
Volador
Soberano 		Bushi
Takagi
(13:42)		 Liger
Tiger
(11:06)		 Kushida
Sabin
(10:32)		 Volador
Soberano
(10:33)		 — Sho
Yoh
(11:55)		 Volador
Soberano
(8:56)		 Kanemaru
Desperado
(12:32)
Sho
Yoh 		Bushi
Takagi
(21:18)		 Sho
Yoh
(11:33)		 Sho
Yoh
(15:18)		 ACH
Taguchi
(18:33)		 Sho
Yoh
(11:55)		 — Sho
Yoh
(10:50)		 Sho
Yoh
(13:14)
Ishimori
Eagles 		Bushi
Takagi
(14:00)		 Ishimori
Eagles
(11:04)		 Ishimori
Eagles
(12:31)		 Ishimori
Eagles
(13:33)		 Volador
Soberano
(8:56)		 Sho
Yoh
(10:50)		 — Kanemaru
Desperado
(10:02)
Desperado
Kanemaru 		Kanemaru
Desperado
(18:04)		 Kanemaru
Desperado
(11:55)		 Kanemaru
Desperado
(14:40)		 ACH
Taguchi
(13:17)		 Kanemaru
Desperado
(12:32)		 Sho
Yoh
(13:14)		 Kanemaru
Desperado
(10:02)		 —
Final
   
1 Sho and Yoh Pin
1
1 		Bushi and Takagi
Desperado and Kanemaru 		15:55

2019

The 2019 Super Jr. Tag League is a fifteen-night professional wrestling tournament hosted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling. It features eight teams in a single block, with the first and second placed teams advancing to a final. Block matches were held from October 16 to November 1, 2019, on the Road to Power Struggle tour, and the final was held on November 3, 2019, at Power Struggle.[33]

Final Standings
El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru 10
Sho and Yoh 10
Taiji Ishimori and El Phantasmo 10
Will Ospreay and Robbie Eagles 8
Volador and Titán 8
Ryusuke Taguchi and Rocky Romero 8
T. J. Perkins and Clark Connors 2
Tiger Mask and Yuya Uemura 0
Results Sho
Yoh		 Ishimori
Phantasmo		 Desperado
Kanemaru		 Ospreay
Eagles		 Taguchi
Romero		 Volador
Titán		 Tiger
Uemura		 TJP
Connors
Sho
Yoh 		— Sho
Yoh
(17:28)		 Desperado
Kanemaru
(15:28)		 Sho
Yoh
(21:15)		 Taguchi
Romero
(23:12)		 Sho
Yoh
(16:25)		 Sho
Yoh
(16:10)		 Sho
Yoh
(13:31)
Ishimori
Phantasmo 		Sho
Yoh
(17:28)		 — Desperado
Kanemaru
(15:36)		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(22:17)		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(15:58)		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(14:22)		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(11:36)		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(11:13)
Desperado
Kanemaru 		Desperado
Kanemaru
(15:28)		 Desperado
Kanemaru
(15:36)		 — Desperado
Kanemaru
(16:24)		 Taguchi
Romero
(13:43)		 Volador
Titán
(12:03)		 Desperado
Kanemaru
(14:55)		 Desperado
Kanemaru
(12:18)
Ospreay
Eagles 		Sho
Yoh
(21:15)		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(22:17)		 Desperado
Kanemaru
(16:24)		 — Ospreay
Eagles
(22:13)		 Ospreay
Eagles
(10:58)		 Ospreay
Eagles
(11:33)		 Ospreay
Eagles
(15:30)
Taguchi
Romero 		Taguchi
Romero
(23:12)		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(15:58)		 Taguchi
Romero
(13:43)		 Ospreay
Eagles
(22:13)		 — Volador
Titán
(13:57)		 Taguchi
Romero
(12:32)		 Taguchi
Romero
(15:37)
Volador
Titán 		Sho
Yoh
(16:25)		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(14:22)		 Volador
Titán
(12:03)		 Ospreay
Eagles
(10:58)		 Volador
Titán
(13:57)		 — Volador
Titán
(12:58)		 Volador
Titán
(12:24)
Tiger
Uemura 		Sho
Yoh
(16:10)		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(11:36)		 Desperado
Kanemaru
(14:55)		 Ospreay
Eagles
(11:33)		 Taguchi
Romero
(12:32)		 Volador
Titán
(12:58)		 — TJP
Connors
(15:06)
TJP
Connors 		Sho
Yoh
(13:31)		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(11:13)		 Desperado
Kanemaru
(12:18)		 Ospreay
Eagles
(15:30)		 Taguchi
Romero
(15:37)		 Volador
Titán
(12:24)		 TJP
Connors
(15:06)		 —
Final
   
1 Desperado and Kanemaru 14:13
2 Sho and Yoh Pin[33]

2021

The 2021 Super Jr. Tag League is a five-night professional wrestling tournament hosted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling. It features six teams in a single block, with the team having most points at the end of the league winning the entire tournament. In case of a tie between two or more top ranked teams in the block in terms of points tiebreakers will be held and the winner of the tournament would be decided. Block matches will be held from 7 August to 9 August and 16 August to 17 August 2021, on the Summer Struggle 2021 tour at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Gedo and Dick Togo forfeited their match against Ryusuke Taguchi and Master Wato due to both having to be quarantined for being in contact with EVIL, who had been in physical contact with Shingo Takagi, who tested positive for COVID. Due to this situation, official word was of giving Taguchi and Wato a bye in the tournament, thus only two league matches were held on 16 August 2021. Sho and Yoh broke up following the events of the August 16, 2021 show, causing their match against Gedo and Dick Togo to be ruled a double forfeit.[36]

Final Standings
El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru 8
Taiji Ishimori and El Phantasmo 8
Ryusuke Taguchi and Master Wato 6
Tiger Mask and Robbie Eagles 6
Sho and Yoh 0
Gedo and Dick Togo 0
Matches Sho
Yoh		 Ishimori
Phantasmo		 Desperado
Kanemaru		 Gedo
Togo		 Taguchi
Wato		 Tiger
Eagles
Sho
Yoh 		— Ishimori
Phantasmo
(15:56)		 Desperado
Kanemaru
(21:52)		 Double
Forfeit		 Taguchi
Wato
(19:01)		 Tiger
Eagles
(14:24)
Ishimori
Phantasmo 		Ishimori
Phantasmo
(15:56)		 — Desperado
Kanemaru
(21:04)		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(12:57)		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(15:43)		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(16:22)
Desperado
Kanemaru 		Desperado
Kanemaru
(21:52)		 Desperado
Kanemaru
(21:04)		 — Desperado
Kanemaru
(18:56)		 Desperado
Kanemaru
(13:52)		 Tiger
Eagles
(15:45)
Gedo
Togo 		Double
Forfeit		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(12:57)		 Desperado
Kanemaru
(18:56)		 — Taguchi
Wato
(Forfeit)		 Tiger
Eagles
(11:56)
Taguchi
Wato 		Taguchi
Wato
(19:01)		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(15:43)		 Desperado
Kanemaru
(13:52)		 Taguchi
Wato
(Forfeit)		 — Taguchi
Wato
(21:04)
Tiger
Eagles 		Tiger
Eagles
(14:24)		 Ishimori
Phantasmo
(16:22)		 Tiger
Eagles
(15:45)		 Tiger
Eagles
(11:56)		 Taguchi
Wato
(21:04)		 —

2022

The 2022 Super Jr. Tag League is a sixteen-night professional wrestling tournament hosted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling. It features ten teams in a single block, with the team having the most points at the end of the league winning the entire tournament. In case of a tie between two or more top-ranked teams in the block in terms of points, tiebreakers will be held and the winner of the tournament would be decided. Block matches will be held from November 21 to December 14, 2022, and the final will be at Sendai Sunplaza Hall in Sendai, Japan.

Standings
Ace Austin and Chris Bey 14
Lio Rush and Yoh 14
TJP and Francesco Akira 12
Alex Zayne and El Lindaman 12
Bushi and Titán 12
Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Douki 8
Ryusuke Taguchi and Clark Connors 6
Robbie Eagles and Tiger Mask 4
Kushida and Kevin Knight 4
Sho and Dick Togo 4
Results TJP
Akira		 Austin
Bey		 Eagles
Mask		 Taguchi
Connors		 Zayne
Lindaman		 Kushida
Knight		 Kanemaru
Douki		 Sho
Togo		 Bushi
Titán		 Yoh
Rush
TJP
Akira 		— Austin
Bey
(14:51)		 TJP
Akira
(9:17)		 TJP
Akira
(11:47)		 TJP
Akira
(18:56)		 TJP
Akira
(13:27)		 Kanemaru
Douki
(18:40)		 TJP
Akira
(12:41)		 Bushi
Titán
(14:40)		 TJP
Akira
(19:06)
Austin
Bey 		Austin
Bey
(14:51)		 — Austin
Bey
(9:28)		 Austin
Bey
(7:45)		 Zayne
Lindaman
(18:37)		 Austin
Bey
(10:16)		 Austin
Bey
(11:10)		 Austin
Bey
(9:33)		 Austin
Bey
(13:27)		 Yoh
Rush
(15:01)
Eagles
Mask 		TJP
Akira
(9:17)		 Austin
Bey
(9:28)		 — Taguchi
Connors
(9:17)		 Zayne
Lindaman
(10:21)		 Kushida
Knight
(11:22)		 Eagles
Mask
(8:38)		 Eagles
Mask
(9:58)		 Bushi
Titán
(11:11)		 Yoh
Rush
(10:13)
Taguchi
Connors 		TJP
Akira
(11:47)		 Austin
Bey
(7:45)		 Taguchi
Connors
(9:17)		 — Zayne
Lindaman
(10:41)		 Taguchi
Connors
(9:22)		 Taguchi
Connors
(8:21)		 Sho
Togo
(13:03)		 Bushi
Titán
(10:02)		 Yoh
Rush
(11:28)
Zayne
Lindaman 		TJP
Akira
(18:56)		 Zayne
Lindaman
(18:37)		 Zayne
Lindaman
(10:21)		 Zayne
Lindaman
(10:41)		 — Zayne
Lindaman
(9:53)		 Kanemaru
Douki
(10:10)		 Zayne
Lindaman
(6:15)		 Zayne
Lindaman
(9:28)		 Yoh
Rush
(12:21)
Kushida
Knight 		TJP
Akira
(13:27)		 Austin
Bey
(10:16)		 Kushida
Knight
(11:22)		 Taguchi
Connors
(9:22)		 Zayne
Lindaman
(9:53)		 — Kanemaru
Douki
(7:52)		 Kushida
Knight
(9:34)		 Bushi
Titán
(7:57)		 Yoh
Rush
(10:43)
Kanemaru
Douki 		Kanemaru
Douki
(18:40)		 Austin
Bey
(11:10)		 Eagles
Mask
(8:38)		 Taguchi
Connors
(8:21)		 Kanemaru
Douki
(10:10)		 Kanemaru
Douki
(7:52)		 — Kanemaru
Douki
(12:16)		 Bushi
Titán
(11:41)		 Yoh
Rush
(10:43)
Sho
Togo 		TJP
Akira
(12:41)		 Austin
Bey
(9:33)		 Eagles
Mask
(9:58)		 Sho
Togo
(13:03)		 Zayne
Lindaman
(6:15)		 Kushida
Knight
(9:34)		 Kanemaru
Douki
(12:16)		 — Bushi
Titán
(11:56)		 Sho
Togo
(0:18)
Bushi
Titán 		Bushi
Titán
(14:40)		 Austin
Bey
(13:27)		 Bushi
Titán
(11:11)		 Bushi
Titán
(10:02)		 Zayne
Lindaman
(9:28)		 Bushi
Titán
(7:57)		 Bushi
Titán
(11:41)		 Bushi
Titán
(11:56)		 — Yoh
Rush
(12:17)
Rush
Yoh 		TJP
Akira
(19:06)		 Rush
Yoh
(15:01)		 Rush
Yoh
(10:13)		 Rush
Yoh
(11:28)		 Rush
Yoh
(12:21)		 Rush
Yoh
(10:43)		 Rush
Yoh
(10:04)		 Rush
Togo
(0:18)		 Rush
Yoh
(12:17)		 —
Final
   
1 Ace Austin and Chris Bey 21:10
2 Lio Rush and Yoh Pin

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