2007 The 2007 Nippon TV Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League was held from July 1 to 15, 2007. The tournament featured six teams. Outside entrants included
Bryan Danielson and
Davey Richards from
Ring of Honor.
2008 The 2008 Nippon TV Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League was held from August 23 to September 6, 2008. The tournament featured eight teams. Outside entrants included
Bryan Danielson,
Davey Richards and
Jay and
Mark Briscoe from
Ring of Honor.
2009 The 2009 Nippon TV Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League ran from July 12 to 27, 2009. The tournament featured two blocks of four teams each. Outside entrants included
Bryan Danielson and
Roderick Strong from
Ring of Honor.
2010 The 2010 Nippon TV Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League held from October 15 to October 30, 2010. The tournament featured two blocks of five teams each. Outside entrants included
Bryan Danielson and
Davey Richards from
Ring of Honor,
Dick Togo and Yasu Urano from
Dramatic Dream Team,
The Great Sasuke and
Kenbai from
Michinoku Pro Wrestling,
Atsushi Kotoge and
Daisuke Harada from
Osaka Pro Wrestling and
Extreme Tiger and
Jack Evans from
AAA.
2011 The 2011 NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League was held from July 16 to 30, 2011. The tournament featured two blocks of five teams each. Outside entrants included
Delirious and
Eddie Edwards from
Ring of Honor, Osamu Namiguchi and
Tatsuhito Takaiwa from
Pro Wrestling Zero1,
Kenoh and
Kenbai from
Michinoku Pro Wrestling,
Aero Star and
Jack Evans from
AAA and
Atsushi Kotoge and
Daisuke Harada from
Osaka Pro Wrestling.
2012 The 2012 NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League was held from September 8 to September 22, 2012. The tournament featured two blocks of five teams each. Outside entrants included
Bobby Fish and
Eddie Edwards from
Ring of Honor, Hiro Tonai and
Shiori Asahi from
Kaientai Dojo and
Daichi Hashimoto and
Ikuto Hidaka from
Pro Wrestling Zero1.
2013 The 2013 NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League was held from July 14 to 28, 2013. The tournament featured two blocks of five teams each.outside entrants included
Roderick Strong from
Ring of Honor, Hiro Tonai and
Shiori Asahi from
Kaientai Dojo,
Jushin Thunder Liger and
Tiger Mask from
New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Australian wrestler
Slex. The winners, Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask, also won the vacant
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
2014 The 2014 NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League was held from July 19 to August 2, 2014. The tournament featured two blocks of five teams each. Outside entrants included
Jushin Thunder Liger and
Tiger Mask from
New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Hiro Tonai and
Shiori Asahi from
Kaientai Dojo and Mexican wrestlers Jinzo and Rocky Lobo.
2015 The 2015 NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League was held from September 5 to 22, 2015. The tournament featured two blocks of five teams each. The participants were announced on August 23; outside entrants included Kota Umeda and
Kudo from
Dramatic Dream Team, Kaji Tomato and
Shiori Asahi from
Kaientai Dojo and
freelancers
Billyken Kid and
Buffalo. Kudo was forced to pull out of the tournament on September 16, after suffering a knee injury, leading to him and Umeda forfeiting their final match.
2016 The 2016 NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League took place from July 16 to July 30, 2016.
2017 The 2017 Global Junior Heavyweight Tag League took place from July 13 to July 27, 2017.
2018 The 2018 Global Junior Heavyweight Tag League took place from July 7 to August 5, 2018. Leona was initially Seiya Morohashi's partner for the tournament, but he was replaced by Junta Miyawaki due to injury following the match against Hayata & Yo-Hey.
2019 The 2019 Global Junior Heavyweight Tag League took place from May 28 to June 13, 2019.
2021 In 2021, the Junior Tag League was switched to the
Junior Team Game, in which teams of 4 ('units'), competed in 4v4 elimination tag matches in a single-elimination bracket. It was held on 27 July, at Club Citta,
Kawasaki, Kanagawa. The 4 Units competing were: • Noah Seiki gun:
Daisuke Harada,
Atsushi Kotoge,
Hajime Ohara &
Junta Miyawaki •
Stinger:
Hayata,
Yoshinari Ogawa,
Seiki Yoshioka &
Yuya Susumu •
Kongo:
Tadasuke,
Aleja,
Haoh &
Nioh •
Perros del Mal de Japon:
Nosawa Rongai,
Yo-Hey,
Kotaro Suzuki &
Ikuto Hidaka Kongo vs Perros Noah vs Stinger Kongo vs Noah (Final) 2022 From 6-7 January, Noah held the inaugural
N Innovation U-Cup. It would be contested by the same 4 units who competed last year, only with
Dragon Gate's
Eita replacing
Ikuto Hidaka on the
Perros del Mal de Japon team. The format was different, with unit members competing in a tag team match, a Rumble, a six-man tag team match and an elimination 4 way match. For every win a team or individual gets, their unit earned 2 points. A draw would result in a point each. In the case of a points draw, the team who won their head-to-head tag team match would advance. The top two units would advance to a 4v4 Elimination Tag Team Match final, where each team would start with two of their members in the match. When one was eliminated, another one would enter the match to replace them. When a team was down to one wrestler only, they lost the match.
Rumble 4-Way Match Noah vs Kongo (Final) 2025 Pro Wrestling Noah announced the return of the tournament as simply the
Junior Tag League with eight teams competing in 2 groups of 4. The tournament took place between February 11 and March 2 at
Noah Memorial Voyage in Yokohama. Mark Trew and Kieron Lacey represented
Progress Wrestling, and Jun Masaoka and Gaia Hox represented
Pro Wrestling Freedoms.
2026 The 2026 edition of the tournament will take place under a single-block format between February 6 and March 1. == See also ==