Browsing: Best Of The Super Juniors

Los Ingobernables de Japon (LIJ) member and former three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion “Time Bomb” Hiromu Takahashi enters Best of the Super Juniors 27 (BOSJ 27) as one of the favorites. Hiromu managed to win BOSJ 25 (2018) and would love to win his second trophy within New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) to lock in a title challenge against reigning two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Bullet Club member, “Bone Soldier” Taiji Ishimori at Wrestle Kingdom 15.

Bullet Club member “Bone Soldier” Taiji Ishimori began his second reign with the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship during Summer Struggle in Jingu on August 29, 2020 after defeating beloved Los Ingobernables de Japon (LIJ) member Hiromu Takahashi for the championship.

The 27th incarnation of the tournament sees CHAOS member “The Sniper of the Skies” Robbie Eagles make his return to a NJPW ring for the first time since the COVID-19 (Coronavirus, 2019) forced delay in March. Eagles trained at the NJPW New Zealand Dojo (Fale Dojo), which led to him breaking in with the promotion in February 2018.

While they have not been running shows since the COVID-19 pandemic has begun, no company has been handling this situation…

If the tournament ends up canceled it will be the first time since 1991; when the competition was known as Top of the Super Junior, that it won’t be held.

In New Japan Pro Wrestling, there are two distinct weight classes. You have the junior heavyweights, and the heavyweights. Both…