NJPW Announces Cards For Wrestling Dontaku 2026

Now that NJPW Sakura Genesis has come & gone, the company has been announcing its upcoming events for the next several months. NJPW revealed the A & B Blocks for Best of the Super Juniors 33 yesterday, along with the schedule for the G1 Climax 36.

NJPW has announced full cards for both nights of Wrestling Dontaku, their next big event. Wrestling Dontaku will take place in Fukuoka at the Convention Center on May 3 & 4. Both events will air on NJPW World. Here’s the card for Night One, which will feature Gabe Kidd challenging for Yota Tsuji’s IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship. Tsuji lost the World Heavyweight Championship at Sakura Genesis and will be attempting to hold on to his other title here:

* IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship Match: Yota Tsuji (c) vs. Gabe Kidd
* NEVER Openweight Championship Match: Ren Narita (c) vs. Oleg Boltin
* Aaron Wolf vs. Don Fale
* Shingo Takagi, Drilla Moloney, Taiji Ishimori, Robbie X & Daiki Nagai vs. Callum Newman, Jake Lee, Francesco Akira, Jakob Austin Young & Zane Jay
* Konosuke Takeshita & Shota Umino vs. Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi
* Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Will Ospreay, HENARE & Great-O-Khan
* Yuya Uemura, Taichi, El Desperado & Mistico vs. Ryohei Oiwa, Hartley Jackson, Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita
* Tomoaki Honma & Masatora Yasuda vs. OSKAR & Yuto-Ice
* Toru Yano, YOH & Master Wato vs. Tiger Mask, Ryusuke Taguchi & Taisei Nakahara

Here’s the card for Night Two, which features Callum Newman defending his newly won IWGP Heavyweight Championship & Konosuke Takeshita defending the NJPW World Television Championship:

* IWGP Heavyweight Championship Match: Callum Newman (c) vs. Shingo Takagi
* NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champions Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Oleg Boltin (c) vs. Will Ospreay, HENARE & Great-O-Khan
* NJPW World Television Championship Match: Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Chase Owens
* Yota Tsuji, Drilla Moloney, Taiji Ishimori & Robbie X vs. Jake Lee, Francesco Akira, Jakob Austin Young & Zane Jay
* Yuya Uemura & Taichi vs. Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson
* El Desperado & Mistico vs. Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita
* Aaron Wolf, Toru Yano, Tiger Mask, YOH & Master Wato vs. Ren Narita, Don Fale, DOUKI, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
* Shota Umino & Tomoaki Honma vs. OSKAR & Yuto-Ice
* Ryusuke Taguchi & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Gedo & Daiki Nagai
* NJPW World Television Championship Match: Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Chase Owens
* Masatora Yasuda vs. Taisei Nakahara