NJPW Announces Participants For Best Of The Super Juniors

New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) recently announced on their website that their Best Of The Super Juniors Tournament will be taking place on May 13th and conclude on June 5th. This year, the number of entrants increased to 20. The previous year was only 16. Wrestlers from NJPW, CMLL & Ring Of Honor will be participating in the tournament.

Several Stars that are involved in the tournament have previously been IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, whether as a singles competitor or while holding the tag team title belts. Dragon Lee, the current IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, is also on the list.

Below are the participants for this year’s NJPW Best Of The Super Juniors Tournament:

– Ryusuke Taguchi

– Tiger Mask IV 

– SHO 

– YOH

– Will Ospreay

– Taiji Ishimori

– El Desperado 

– TAKA Michinoku 

– Yoshinobu Kanemaru 

– BUSHI

– Flip Gordon 

– Titan 

– Marty Scurll 

– Dragon Lee 

– Robbie Eagles

– Jonathan Gresham

– Bandido 

– Shingo Takagi

– “X”

It was announced by NJPW that “X” will be revealed on May 4th at Wrestling Dontaku. The tournament will begin in Sendai and the finals will be taking place inside Sumo Hall. Every show featuring high-profile matches will air live and will have English commentary.