{"id":44652,"date":"2019-04-23T08:28:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T12:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=44652"},"modified":"2019-04-23T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T15:14:13","slug":"best-of-the-super-juniors-26-lineup-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/04\/23\/best-of-the-super-juniors-26-lineup-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Super Juniors 26 Lineup Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Japan has today announced the lineup for the biggest BOSJ tournament in history with 20 entrants in this year’s legendary tournament.\u00a0 20 of the best junior\u00a0Heavyweights from NJPW, CMLL<\/strong>, ROH<\/strong>, and RevPro<\/strong> will battle it out to be crowned the winner.\u00a0 The official Best of the Super Juniors 26 lineup is:<\/p>\n

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Photo: NJPW1972<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ryusuke Taguchi, 16th BOSJ Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>Taguchi Japan<\/p>\n

Best Finish<\/strong>: Winner BOSJ 19 (2012)<\/p>\n

Title History<\/strong>: Two-Time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, Six-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, Three-time NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Champion<\/p>\n

Tiger Mask, 18th Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>Main Unit<\/p>\n

Best Finish:<\/strong> Winner BOSJ 11 & 12 (2004, 2005)<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>Six-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, Two-time GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion<\/p>\n

Rocky Romero, 7th Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>CHAOS<\/p>\n

Best Finish<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/strong>Blocks<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion,Eight-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, Three-time CMLL World Lightweight Champion, Three-time ROH World Tag Team Champion<\/p>\n

SHO, 2nd Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>CHAOS<\/p>\n

Best Finish:\u00a0<\/strong>Blocks<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>Three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion<\/p>\n

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Photo: NJPW1972<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

YOH, 2nd Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>CHAOS<\/p>\n

Best Finish:\u00a0<\/strong>Blocks<\/p>\n

Title History<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/strong>Three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion<\/p>\n

Will Ospreay, 4th Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>CHAOS<\/p>\n

Best Finish:\u00a0<\/strong>Winner BOSJ 23 (2016)<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>NEVER Openweight Champion, Two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, ROH World Television Champion, Two-time RevPro Undisputed British Cruiserweight Champion, RevPro Undisputed British Tag Team Champion<\/p>\n

Taiji Ishimori, 3rd Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:<\/strong> Bullet Club<\/p>\n

Best Finish:<\/strong> Finalist BOSJ 25 (2018)<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Champion, Three-time GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion, Six-Time GCH Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion<\/p>\n

El Desperado, 4th Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>Suzuki Gun<\/p>\n

Best Finish:\u00a0<\/strong>Blocks<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion<\/p>\n

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Photo: NJPW1972<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TAKA Michinoku, 7th Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>Suzuki Gun<\/p>\n

Best Finish:\u00a0<\/strong>Blocks<\/p>\n

Title History:<\/strong> Two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, All Asia Tag Team Champion, AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Champion<\/p>\n

Yoshinobu Kanemaru, 3rd Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>Suzuki Gun<\/p>\n

Best Finish: <\/strong>Blocks<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, Seven-time Junior Heavyweight Champion, Four-time GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion,Two-time All Asia Tag Team Champion, AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Champion<\/p>\n

BUSHI, 7th Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>Los Ingobernables De Japon<\/p>\n

Best Finish:\u00a0<\/strong>Blocks<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, Three-time NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Champion, CMLL World Welterweight Champion<\/p>\n

Flip Gordon, 2nd Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>Unaffiliated<\/p>\n

Best Finish:\u00a0<\/strong>Blocks<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

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Photo: NJPW1972<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tit\u00e1n, 2nd Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>Unaffiliated<\/p>\n

Best Finish:\u00a0<\/strong>Blocks<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Marty Scurll, 3rd Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>Unaffiliated<\/p>\n

Best Finish:\u00a0<\/strong>Blocks<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Champion, ROH World Television Champion, ROH World Six Man Tag Team Championship, RevPro Undisputed British Heavyweight Champion,\u00a0RevPro Undisputed British Cruiserweight Champion<\/p>\n

Dragon Lee, 3rd Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>Unaffiliated<\/p>\n

Best Finish:\u00a0<\/strong>Blocks<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>Current IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, CMLL World Welterweight Champion, Two-time CMLL World Lightweight Champion<\/p>\n

Robbie Eagles, First Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>Bullet Club<\/p>\n

Best Finish\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

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Photo: NJPW1972<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jonathan Gresham, First Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>Unaffiliated<\/p>\n

Best Finish:\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Bandido, First Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>Unaffiliated<\/p>\n

Best Finish:\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Shingo Takagi, First Appearance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Faction:\u00a0<\/strong>Los Ingobernables De Japon<\/p>\n

Best Finish:\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Title History:\u00a0<\/strong>IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, ROH World Tag Team Champion<\/p>\n

X\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Rumored to be Canadian\u00a0El Phantasmo\u00a0<\/strong>who has been plying his trade in the UK for a few years now and has joined Bullet Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Japan has today announced the lineup for the biggest BOSJ tournament in history with 20 entrants in this year’s legendary tournament.\u00a0 20 of the best junior\u00a0Heavyweights from NJPW, CMLL, ROH, and RevPro will battle it out to be crowned the winner.\u00a0 The official Best of the Super Juniors 26 lineup is: Ryusuke Taguchi, 16th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":44658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,14],"tags":[2345,723,1352,726,327,2505,188,2942,2325,101],"class_list":["post-44652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-njpw","tag-bandido","tag-best-of-the-super-juniors","tag-bosj","tag-jonathan-gresham","tag-marty-scurll","tag-new-japan-pro-wresting","tag-njpw","tag-shingo-takagi","tag-taiji-ishimori","tag-will-ospreay"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}