Global Junior Heavyweight League
The Global Junior Heavyweight League is a professional wrestling round-robin tournament held by Pro Wrestling Noah. The purpose of the tournament is to determine the promotion's top junior heavyweight wrestler. It was originally designed to be an annual event starting in 2009, but the second tournament did not take place until 2015. The tournament is a two-block round-robin tournament, much like New Japan Pro Wrestling's Best of the Super Juniors tournament, in which each block's two highest scorers face off in the semi finals. A victory is worth two points, a draw was worth one, and a loss zero; each match has a thirty-minute time limit. Being a professional wrestling tournament the outcome of the matches and the tournament itself are not determined through pure athletic competition but through pre-determined outcomes to matches.[1]
List of winners
2009
The first tournament, named simply Junior Heavyweight League, was held from October 15 to October 31 over nine shows, and featured two blocks of five. Foreign participation included Delirious from Ring of Honor and Jushin Thunder Liger from New Japan Pro Wrestling. The winner, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, also won the vacant GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. Delirious was awarded place in the semi final because original block A runner-up Kotaro Suzuki had to withdraw with a flu.
2015
The second tournament, now named Global Junior Heavyweight League, took place from July 18 to August 5, 2015.[1]
| Block A | Daisuke Harada | El Desperado | Hitoshi Kumano | Kenoh | Sho Tanaka | Yoshinari Ogawa | Zack Sabre Jr. |
| Daisuke Harada |
X | Harada (5:23) | Harada (10:06) | Harada (13:29) | Harada (8:33) | Harada (11:58) | Sabre (12:12) |
| El Desperado |
Harada (5:23) | X | Desperado (7:53) | Desperado (13:31) | Desperado (10:19) | Ogawa (1:05) | Desperado (11:06) |
| Hitoshi Kumano |
Harada (10:06) | Desperado (7:53) | X | Kenoh (9:03) | Tanaka (9:01) | Ogawa (8:41) | Sabre (9:47) |
| Kenoh |
Harada (13:29) | Desperado (13:31) | Kenoh (9:03) | X | Kenoh (13:50) | Kenoh (13:28) | Kenoh (7:33) |
| Sho Tanaka |
Harada (8:33) | Desperado (10:19) | Tanaka (9:01) | Kenoh (13:50) | X | Ogawa (3:32) | Sabre (10:07) |
| Yoshinari Ogawa |
Harada (11:58) | Ogawa (1:05) | Ogawa (8:41) | Kenoh (13:28) | Ogawa (3:32) | X | Sabre (11:46) |
| Zack Sabre Jr. |
Sabre (12:12) | Desperado (11:06) | Sabre (9:47) | Kenoh (7:33) | Sabre (10:07) | Sabre (11:46) | X |
| Block B | Atsushi Kotoge | Bengala | Genba Hirayanagi | Hajime Ohara | Super Crazy | Taiji Ishimori | Taka Michinoku |
| Atsushi Kotoge |
X | Kotoge (8:49) | Kotoge (8:36) | Ohara (12:41) | Crazy (11:05) | Kotoge (14:58) | Kotoge (10:44) |
| Bengala |
Kotoge (8:49) | X | Hirayanagi (6:22) | Bengala (6:15) | Bengala (3:24) | Ishimori (10:48) | Bengala (7:40) |
| Genba Hirayanagi |
Kotoge (8:36) | Hirayanagi (6:22) | X | Ohara (8:29) | Crazy (5:29) | Ishimori (7:44) | Michinoku (7:33) |
| Hajime Ohara |
Ohara (12:41) | Bengala (6:15) | Ohara (8:29) | X | Crazy (10:16) | Ishimori (7:15) | Ohara (11:31) |
| Super Crazy |
Crazy (11:05) | Bengala (3:24) | Crazy (5:29) | Crazy (10:16) | X | Ishimori (12:27) | Michinoku (8:26) |
| Taiji Ishimori |
Kotoge (14:58) | Ishimori (10:48) | Ishimori (7:44) | Ishimori (7:15) | Ishimori (12:27) | X | Michinoku (9:07) |
| Taka Michinoku |
Kotoge (10:44) | Bengala (7:40) | Michinoku (7:33) | Ohara (11:31) | Michinoku (8:26) | Michinoku (9:07) | X |
| Final
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| A1
| Daisuke Harada
| Pin
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| B1
| Atsushi Kotoge
| 16:35
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