| Champion |
Won From |
Date |
| Tiger Mask [4] |
n/a |
7/8/08 |
Defeated Prince Devitt in the finals of a tournament to win the vacant title. |
| Wataru Inoue |
Ryusuke Taguchi |
12/8/07 |
Vacated the title on 6/16/08 after graduating to the heavyweight division. |
| Ryusuke Taguchi |
Minoru Tanaka |
7/6/07 |
| Minoru Tanaka [4] |
Koji Kanemoto |
12/24/06 |
| Koji Kanemoto [5] |
Tiger Mask |
5/3/06 |
| Kanemoto only wins the NJPW
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title. |
| Tiger Mask [3] |
Black Tiger |
2/19/06 |
| Tiger Mask also wins the NWA
World Junior Heavyweight Title from Black Tiger. |
| Black Tiger (Rocky Romero) |
Tiger Mask |
10/8/05 |
| This was a title vs. title
match. Black Tiger entered the match as the NWA World Junior
Heavyweight Champion and beat Tiger Mask to win the NJPW IWGP Junior
Heavyweight Title to become a dual champion. |
| Tiger Mask [2] |
Heat |
1/4/05 |
| Heat [3] (AKA Minoru Tanaka) |
Jado |
12/14/03 |
| Jado |
n/a |
10/13/03 |
| Jado won an 11 man New Japan
Super Junior Rumble last eliminating Koji Kanemoto to win the title. |
| Tiger Mask |
Koji Kanemoto |
4/23/03 |
| Tiger Mask vacates the title on
9/23/03 in order to put the title on the line in a New Japan Junior Rumble
in the Tokyo Dome. |
| Koji Kanemoto [4] |
Minoru Tanaka |
7/19/02 |
| Minoru Tanaka [2] |
n/a |
2/16/02 |
| Minoru Tanaka defeated Masahito
Kakihara to win the title. |
| Kendo Ka Shin [2] |
Masayoshi Naruse |
10/8/01 |
| Title vacated when Kendo Ka
Shin left the promotion in January of 2002. |
| Masayoshi Naruse |
Minoru Tanaka |
7/20/01 |
| Minoru Tanaka (AKA Heat) |
Tatsuhito Takaiwa |
10/29/00 |
| Tatsuhito Takaiwa |
Jushin Thunder Liger |
7/20/00 |
| Jushin Thunder Liger [11] |
n/a |
12/6/99 |
| With Juventued Guerrera out
with an injury, WCW ordered Psychosis and La Parka to fight in the back for
the title. Psychosis won the fight and defended the title against Jushin
Thunder Liger for Juventued and lost. |
| Juventued Guerrera |
Jushin Thunder Liger |
11/29/99 |
| Jushin Thunder Liger [10] |
Kendo Ka Shin |
10/11/99 |
| Kendo Ka Shin |
Koji Kanemoto |
8/28/99 |
| Koji Kanemoto [3] |
Jushin Thunder Liger |
3/17/99 |
| Jushin Thunder Liger [9] |
Shinjiro Ohtani |
2/7/98 |
| Shinjiro Ohtani |
El Samurai |
8/10/97 |
| Shinjiro Ohtani vacated six
other titles of the J-Crown on November 5, 1997 after being forced from the
World Wrestling Federation to vacated the WWF World Light-Heavyweight Title.
He continued to hold the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title. Shinjiro Ohtani
defeated WCW World Cruiserweight Champion, Ultimo Dragon on January 4, 1998
in Tokyo, Japan. Ultimo Dragon's WCW title was not on the line. |
| El Samurai [2] |
Jushin Thunder Liger |
7/6/97 |
| Jushin Thunder Liger [8] |
Ultimo Dragon |
1/4/97 |
| Jushin Thunder Liger lost the
International Junior Heavyweight Title to Yuuji Yasuraoka on June 6, 1997 in
Tokyo, Japan but kept the other titles of the J-Crown including the IWGP
Junior Heavyweight Title. |
| Ultimo Dragon [2] |
The Great Sasuke |
10/11/96 |
| The Great Sasuke |
n/a |
4/29/96 |
| The Great Sasuke defeated
Ultimo Dragon in the finals of the Super J-Crown on August 5, 1996 in Tokyo,
Japan to win the title and to become the first Octuple Crown Champion. |
| Jushin Thunder Liger [7] |
Koji Kanemoto |
1/4/96 |
| Koji Kanemoto [2] |
Sabu |
6/14/95 |
| Sabu |
Koji Kanemoto |
5/3/95 |
| Koji Kanemoto |
Norio Honaga |
2/19/95 |
| Norio Honaga [3] |
n/a |
9/27/94 |
| Norio Honaga defeated Chris
Benoit in a 6-man tournament final to win the title. |
| Jushin Thunder Liger [6] |
Ultimo Dragon |
1/3/93 |
| The title was vacated on
September 24, 1994 when Jushin Thunder Liger broke his leg during a tag team
match. |
| Ultimo Dragon |
El Samurai |
11/22/92 |
| El Samurai |
Jushin Thunder Liger |
6/26/92 |
| Jushin Thunder Liger [5] |
Norio Honaga |
2/8/92 |
| Norio Honaga [2] |
Akira Nogami |
11/5/91 |
| Akira Nogami |
Jushin Thunder Liger |
8/9/91 |
| Jushin Thunder Liger [4] |
Norio Honaga |
6/12/91 |
| Norio Honaga |
n/a |
4/30/91 |
| Norio Honaga defeated Jushin
Thunder Liger in a 7-man round robin tournament to win the title. |
| Jushin Thunder Liger [3] |
Chris Benoit |
11/1/90 |
| The title was vacated on April
15, 1991 for the "Top of the Super Junior Tournament." |
| Chris Benoit |
Jushin Thunder Liger |
8/19/90 |
| Jushin Thunder Liger [2] |
Naoki Sano |
1/30/90 |
| Naoki Sano |
Jushin Thunder Liger |
8/10/89 |
| Jushin Thunder Liger |
Hiroshi Hase |
5/25/89 |
| Hiroshi Hase [2] |
Shiro Koshinaka |
3/16/89 |
| Shiro Koshinaka [3] |
Owen Hart |
6/24/88 |
| Owen Hart |
Hiroshi Hase |
5/27/88 |
| Hiroshi Hase |
Kuniaki Kobayashi |
12/27/87 |
| Kuniaki Kobayashi |
n/a |
8/20/87 |
| Kuniaki Kobyashi defeated
Nobuhiko Takada in an 8-man tournament final to win the title. |
| Shiro Koshinaka [2] |
Nobuhiko Takada |
9/19/86 |
| The title was vacated on August
2, 1987 when Koshinaka injured his leg. |
| Nobuhiko Takada |
Shiro Koshinaka |
5/19/86 |
| Shiro Koshinaka |
n/a |
2/6/86 |
| Shiro Koshinaka defeated The
Cobra, who has vacated the NWA World and WWF World Junior Heavyweight
Titles, for the title in the finals of a 9-man tournament. |
