Browsing: BOSJ

“Way to the Grandmaster” Master Wato makes his Best of the Super Juniors debut during Best of the Super Juniors 27 (BOSJ 27). Master Wato officially returned from his over two-year excursion in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in July of this year, continuing his path as one of the youngest New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) roster members.

One-half of the reigning IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions (w/Yoshinbou Kanemaru) and Suzuki-Gun member; El Desperado comes into Best of the Super Juniors 27 (BOSJ 27) on the outside looking in.

Los Ingobernables de Japon (LIJ) member Bushi comes into Best of the Super Juniors 27 (BOSJ 27) needing to regain the form he had when he won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship back on September 17, 2016 during Destruction in Tokyo.

“High Voltage” Sho is a recent NEVER Openweight Championship challenger and has achieved success in the Roppongi 3K tag team (w/Yoh) where he’s won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion four-times to go along with three Super Junior Tag League tournament trophies in 2017, 2018, and 2019.

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.

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.

The G1 Climax feels like it just concluded, but it is time for another singles tournament in New Japan Pro…

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.