NJPW Announces Full Field of Competitors & Group Blocks for Best of the Super Juniors 2025 Tournament

During Saturday’s Sakura Genesis 2025 event in Tokyo, Japan, New Japan Pro Wrestling announced the full field and group blocks for this year’s Best of the Super Juniors tournament.

This year’s tournament takes place from May 10th to June 1st in Japan and features several talent from CMLL, Dragongate, DDT Pro Wrestling, and AEW among the twenty-man field.

In regards to AEW, it was announced that Nick Wayne will be representing AEW in this year’s tournament. In an interesting note, Kevin Knight was also announced for the tournament but he was featured with a New Japan for his graphic.

In regards to CMLL, it was announced that this will be a mystery competitor to be officially revealed at a later date.

Full field of competitors and group blocks for NJPW Best of the Super Juniors 2025:

A Block:

• El Desperado
• Ryusuke Taguchi
• YOH
• Master Wato
• KUSHIDA
• Kevin Knight
• Ninja Mack
• Kosei Fujita
• Robbie Eagles
• Hiromu Takahashi

B Block:

• BUSHI
• Francesco Akira
• Taiji Ishimori
• Clark Connors
• SHO
• Yoshinobu Kanemaru
• mystery CMLL competitor
• Dragon Dia (Dragongate)
• MAO (DDT)
• Nick Wayne (AEW)

THE BEST OF THE SUPER JRS IS ABSOLUTELY STACKED THIS YEAR HOLY SHIT #njSG pic.twitter.com/kSgnz5B8gW

— Braden 🏺 (@BradenIsBased) April 5, 2025