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 semifinals. 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.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 Jyushin 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 semifinal 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.
[|2018]
The third tournament took place from September 8 to October 4, 2018.
[|2019]
The fourth Global Junior Heavyweight League took place from June 27 to July 27, 2019.
The 2020 Global Junior Heavyweight League, featuring 4 blocks took place between January 10 and January 30.
| Block A | Hayata | Yoshinari
Ogawa | Nosawa
Rongai | Junta
Miyawaki |
| Hayata | X | Ogawa
| Double
Countout
| Hayata
|
Yoshinari
Ogawa | Ogawa
| X | Double
Countout
| Ogawa
|
Nosawa
Rongai | Double
Countout
| Double
Countout
| X | Nosawa
|
Junta
Miyawaki | Hayata
| Ogawa
| Nosawa
| X |
| Block B | Kotaro
Suzuki | Tadasuke | Hao | Dick
Togo |
Kotaro
Suzuki | X | Suzuki
| Suzuki
| Togo
|
| Tadasuke | Suzuki
| X | Tadasuke
| Tadasuke
|
| Hao | Suzuki
| Tadasuke
| X | Togo
|
Dick
Togo | Togo
| Tadasuke
| Togo
| X |
| Block C | Atsushi
Kotoge | Yo-Hey | Hajime
Ohara | Hitoshi
Kumano |
Atsushi
Kotoge | X | Kotoge
| Ohara
| Kotoge
|
| Yo-Hey | Kotoge
| X | Ohara
| Yo-Hey
|
Hajime
Ohara | Ohara
| Ohara
| X | Kumano
|
Hitoshi
Kumano | Kotoge
| Yo-Hey
| Kumano
| X |
| Block D | Daisuke
Harada | Chris
Ridgeway | Minoru
Tanaka | Nio |
Daisuke
Harada | X | Harada
| Draw
| Draw
|
Chris
Ridgeway | Harada
| X | Tanaka
| Ridgeway
|
Minoru
Tanaka | Draw
| Tanaka
| X | Nio
|
| Nio | Draw
| Ridgeway
| Nio
| X |
