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.

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
Jado & Gedo
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
Jado & Gedo Pin
Jado & Gedo
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

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 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

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 final on November 5 at Power Struggle.[9]

Results
Round 1 Semifinals Finals
         
Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask Sub
Fuego & Ryusuke Taguchi 9:55
Fuego & Ryusuke Taguchi Pin
Roppongi Vice 15:26
Ángel de Oro & Titán Pin
Roppongi Vice 12:55
Roppongi Vice Pin
ACH & Taiji Ishimori 18:49
David Finlay & Ricochet Pin
Gedo & Will Ospreay 8:47
David Finlay & Ricochet Pin
ACH & Taiji Ishimori 15:57
ACH & Taiji Ishimori Pin
The Young Bucks 17:40

See also

References

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