IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship belt
Details
Promotion	New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW)
Date established	February 6, 1986
Current champion(s)	El Desperado
Date won	January 4, 2025
Other name(s)
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (1986-present) IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship
Statistics First champion(s) Shiro Koshinaka Most reigns Jushin Thunder Liger (11 reigns) Longest reign Jushin Thunder Liger (sixth reign, 628 days) Shortest reign Juventud Guerrera (first reign, 7 days) Oldest champion El Desperado (41 years and 6 days) Youngest champion Black Tiger (22 years, 11 months and 10 days)

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 reigning champion is El Desperado, who is in his fifth reign. He won the title by defeating Douki at Wrestle Kingdom 19 on January 4, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan.