Bruce Lord and Karen Peterson review NJPW’s Wrestling Dontaku 2026, featuring Yota Tsuji defending the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship against Andrade El Idolo on night one and Callum Newman defending the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Shingo Takagi on night two.
Highlighted topics include championship match highlights on Hizen no Kuni and Wrestling Red Zone Championship matches, DOUKI sitting out BOSJ, celebrating 13 Years of Bullet Club… without Bullet Club, the return of SANADA, shoehorning Umino, and the annual reopening of the Forbidden Door.
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Wrestling Dontaku 2026
Night 1: May 3, 2026
Fukuoka Convention Center, Fukuoka, Japan
- IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship: Yota Tsuji (c) vs. Andrade El Idolo – Recommended
- NEVER Openweight Championship: Ren Narita (c) vs. Oleg Boltin
- Aaron Wolf vs. Don Fale
- Daiki Nagai, Drilla Moloney, Robbie X, Shingo Takagi & Taiji Ishimori vs. Callum Newman, Francesco Akira, Jake Lee, Jakob Austin Young & Zane Jay
- Konosuke Takeshita & Shota Umino vs. Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi
- Great-O-Khan, HENARE & Will Ospreay vs. Hirooki Goto, Tatsuya Matsumoto & YOSHI-HASHI
- El Desperado, Místico, Taichi & Yuya Uemura vs. Hartley Jackson, Kosei Fujita, Robbie Eagles & Ryohei Oiwa
- OSKAR & Yuto-Ice vs. Masatora Yasuda & Tomoaki Honma
- Master Wato, Toru Yano & YOH vs. Ryusuke Taguchi, Taisei Nakahara & Tiger Mask
Wrestling Dontaku 2026
Night 2: May 4, 2026
Fukuoka Convention Center, Fukuoka, Japan
- IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Callum Newman (c) vs. Shingo Takagi – Recommended
- NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Championships: Hirooki Goto, Oleg Boltin & YOSHI-HASHI (c) vs. Great-O-Khan, HENARE & Will Ospreay – Recommended
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Championships: Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles (c) vs. El Desperado & Mistico – Recommended
- Francesco Akira, Jake Lee, Jakob Austin Young & Zane Jay vs. Drilla Moloney, Robbie X, Taiji Ishimori & Yota Tsuji
- Taichi & Yuya Uemura vs. Hartley Jackson & Ryohei Oiwa – Recommended
- Aaron Wolf, Master Wato, Tiger Mask, Toru Yano & YOH vs. House Of Torture (Don Fale, Ren Narita, SHO, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Yujiro Takahashi)
- Shota Umino & Tomoaki Honma vs. OSKAR & Yuto-Ice
- Ryusuke Taguchi & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Daiki Nagai & Gedo
- NJPW World Television Championship: Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Chase Owens
- Masatora Yasuda vs. Taisei Nakahara
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