Best of the Super Juniors

The Best of the Super Juniors (often abbreviated BOSJ) is an annual professional wrestling tournament held by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), typically in May or June. The wrestlers in the tournament are typically junior heavyweight wrestlers from promotions all over the world. NJPW has held 22 Super Juniors tournaments. Two wrestlers have won the tournament three times, Jushin Liger and Koji Kanemoto, while only one wrestler has won the tournament in two consecutive years as Tiger Mask IV won the tournament in both 2004 and 2005. Liger is the wrestler who has participated in the most tournaments as he has wrestled in all tournaments except the 1995 and 2000 tournaments. His participation in the 2011 tournament marked his 20th Super Junior tournament.
==History and format==
The tournament was formed in 1988 by NJPW. It was originally called the Top of the Super Juniors. The tournament is a round-robin style tournament where a wrestler scores points. The winner, assuming they are not already the champion, receives an opportunity to wrestle for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship not long after the tournament is over.
In 1994, the tournament was renamed to the Best of the Super Juniors. Since 1996 the tournament has been divided into a two-block system used in many other puroresu tournaments. In this format the top two scorers in each block advance to the semifinals, at which point single-elimination rules take effect. During the round-robin portion, a win is worth two points, a draw is worth one, and a loss zero; all matches have a 30-minute time limit, though in the past it has been twenty minutes.
==Tournament winners==
Tournament	Year	Winner 	Total won
 	1988	Shiro Koshinaka 	1
 	1991	Norio Honaga 	1
 	1992	Jushin Thunder Liger	1
 	1993	Pegasus Kid 	1
 	1994	Jushin Thunder Liger	2
 	1995	Wild Pegasus 	2
 	1996	Black Tiger II 	1
 	1997	El Samurai 	1
 	1998	Koji Kanemoto 	1
 	1999	Kendo Kashin 	1
 	2000	Tatsuhito Takaiwa 	1
 	2001	Jushin Thunder Liger	3
 	2002	Koji Kanemoto 	2
 	2003	Masahito Kakihara 	1
 	2004	Tiger Mask IV 	1
 	2005	Tiger Mask IV 	2
 	2006	Minoru 	1
 	2007	Milano Collection AT	1
 	2008	Wataru Inoue 	1
 	2009	Koji Kanemoto 	3
 	2010	Prince Devitt 	1
 	2011	Kota Ibushi 	1
 	2012	Ryusuke Taguchi 	1
 	2013	Prince Devitt 	2
 	2014	Ricochet 	1
 	2015	Kushida 	1
 	2016	Will Ospreay 	1
 	2017	Kushida 	2
 	2018	Hiromu Takahashi 	1
 	2019	Will Ospreay 	2
 	2020	Hiromu Takahashi 	2
Category:New Japan Pro Wrestling
Category:Professional wrestling tournaments