Super Junior Tag Tournament
The Super Junior Tag Tournament is a professional wrestling single-elimination tag team tournament held by New Japan Pro Wrestling as a spin-off of the singles tournament, the Super J-Cup.
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2010
Super J Tag Tournament was a one-night professional wrestling tournament hosted by New Japan Pro Wrestling and took place on May 8.[1] Most of the wrestlers involved were signed to New Japan but did feature wrestlers from other promotions like Mascara Dorada and 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.[2]
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 | Finals | ||||||||||||
| Fujita Hayato & Taro Nohashi | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Jushin Thunder Liger & Nobuo Yoshihashi | ||||||||||||||
| El Samurai & Koji Kanemoto | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Fujita Hayato & Taro Nohashi | ||||||||||||||
| El Samurai & Koji Kanemoto | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Davey Richards & Tama Tonga | ||||||||||||||
| El Samurai & Koji Kanemoto | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi | ||||||||||||||
| Gedo & Kushida | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Austin Creed & Kota Ibushi | ||||||||||||||
| Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Gedo & Kushida | ||||||||||||||
| Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Mascara Dorada & Valiente | ||||||||||||||
2012
Super Junior 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.[3] 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.[4]
The Time Splitters (KUSHIDA and Alex Shelley) 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.[5] 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 | Finals | ||||||||||||
| Alex Shelley & Kushida | Pin | |||||||||||||
| The World Class Tag Team | ||||||||||||||
| Alex Shelley & Kushida | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Taichi & Taka Michinoku | ||||||||||||||
| Taichi & Taka Michinoku | Pin | |||||||||||||
| BUSHI & Negro Casas | ||||||||||||||
| Alex Shelley & Kushida | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi | ||||||||||||||
| Alex Koslov & Rocky Romero | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask | ||||||||||||||
| Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Alex Koslov & Rocky Romero | ||||||||||||||
| Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Brian Kendrick & Low Ki | ||||||||||||||
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.[6] 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 | Finals | ||||||||||||
| Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask | ||||||||||||||
| The World Class Tag Team | Pin | |||||||||||||
| The World Class Tag Team | ||||||||||||||
| The Young Bucks | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Brian Kendrick & Beretta | ||||||||||||||
| The Young Bucks | Pin | |||||||||||||
| The Young Bucks | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Forever Hooligans | ||||||||||||||
| Kushida & Yohei Komatsu | ||||||||||||||
| Bushi & Valiente | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Bushi & Valiente | ||||||||||||||
| Forever Hooligans | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Forever Hooligans | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Taichi & Taka Michinoku | ||||||||||||||
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 final on November 3.[7] 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 | Finals | ||||||||||||
| Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask | Pin | |||||||||||||
| The Young Bucks | 8:32 | |||||||||||||
| The Young Bucks | Pin | |||||||||||||
| El Desperado & Taichi | 12:04 | |||||||||||||
| Fuego & Ryusuke Taguchi | Pin | |||||||||||||
| El Desperado & Taichi | 12:19 | |||||||||||||
| The Young Bucks | Pin | |||||||||||||
| reDRagon | 15:04 | |||||||||||||
| Time Splitters | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Forever Hooligans | 15:43 | |||||||||||||
| Forever Hooligans | Pin | |||||||||||||
| reDRagon | 15:03 | |||||||||||||
| Bushi & Máscara Dorada | Pin | |||||||||||||
| reDRagon | 10:21 | |||||||||||||
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 final on November 7 at Power Struggle.[8]
Results
| Round 1 | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask | Pin | |||||||||||||
| reDRagon | 10:24 | |||||||||||||
| reDRagon | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Roppongi Vice | 20:06 | |||||||||||||
| Roppongi Vice | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Chase Owens & Kenny Omega | 13:11 | |||||||||||||
| Roppongi Vice | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Matt Sydal & Ricochet | 16:06 | |||||||||||||
| Máscara Dorada and Ryusuke Taguchi | Pin | |||||||||||||
| The Young Bucks | 11:08 | |||||||||||||
| The Young Bucks | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Matt Sydal & Ricochet | 12:05 | |||||||||||||
| Time Splitters | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Matt Sydal & Ricochet | 18:48 | |||||||||||||
See also
References
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