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World Tag League (NJPW)

Professional wrestling tag team tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The World Tag League is a professional wrestling round-robin tag team tournament held by New Japan Pro-Wrestling as a spin-off of the popular singles tournament, the G1 Climax. It was created in 1991 as the Super Grade Tag League, as a continuation of a regular tag team tournament held since 1980 known various as the MSG Tag League, IWGP Tag Title League, or Japan Cup Tag League. It gained the name G1 Tag League in 1999. In 2012, NJPW's new owners, the Bushiroad company, renamed the tournament to its current form. Since the tournament acquired its current name, the winning team earns the right to challenge for the IWGP Tag Team Championship, assuming the team does not hold the title at the time of their victory.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “World Tag League (NJPW)” as professional wrestling tag team tournament. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1980, 1999, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where World, League and NJPW can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as professional wrestling tag team tournament. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1991, 1980, 1999 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “World Tag League (NJPW)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.