IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||
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The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship belt | |||||||||||||||
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Promotion | New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) | ||||||||||||||
Date established | February 6, 1986 | ||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Douki | ||||||||||||||
Date won | July 5, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
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The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (IWGPジュニアヘビー級王座, IWGP juniahebī-kyū ōza) is a professional wrestling world junior heavyweight championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. "IWGP" is the acronym of NJPW's governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix (インターナショナル・レスリング・グラン・プリ, intānashonaru resuringu guran puri). Only wrestlers under the junior heavyweight weight-limit may hold the championship. NJPW currently controls two junior heavyweight championships: the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship and the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. The weight-limit for the title is 100 kg (220 lb).[1] The current champion is El Desperado, who is in his fourth reign. He won the title by defeating Sho in a Steel Cage match at New Japan Soul: Night 1 on June 16, 2024 in Sapporo, Japan.