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NJPW Road to Destruction Results 9.23.26: YOH Retains IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship & More

September 23, 2026 | Posted by Yash Mittal
YOH at NJPW Road to Destruction event. Image Credit: NJPW

New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) continued its Battle Line Hokkaido: Road to Destruction 2026 tour on Wednesday, September 23. The show took place at Kitagas Arena Sapporo 46.

Several multi-man matches, featuring the United Empire, the HOUSE OF TORTURE, Unbound Co., and T.M.D.K., took place at the event.

The event also featured two championship matches, with Mistico and El Desperado defending the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship and YOH putting his IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship on the line against Taiji Ishimori.

Below are the results [via NJPW’s website]:

– United Empire (Jakob Austin Young & Jake Lee) def. Tatsuya Matsumoto & Togi Makabe
– HOUSE OF TORTURE (Dick Togo & Shun Skywalker) def. Masatora Yasuda & Shota Umino
– Unbound Co. (Drilla Moloney & Shingo Takagi) def. YOSHI-HASHI & Oleg Boltin
– Unbound Co. (Daiki Nagai, Jeff Cobb, OSKAR & Yuto-Ice) def. United Empire (Zane Jay, Callum Newman, Great-O-Khan & HENARE)
– T.M.D.K (Ryohei Oiwa, Kosei Fujita & Hartley Jackson) def. Taisei Nakahara, Yuya Uemura & Aaron Wolf
– Unbound Co. (Robbie X & Yota Tsuji) def. Master Wato & Hirooki Goto
– IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match: Mistico & El Desperado [c] def. HOUSE OF TORTURE (SHO & DOUKI).
– IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Match: YOH [c] def. Taiji Ishimori. After the match, Robbie X came out to issue a challenge to YOH for his title, and the champion duly accepted it. NJPW has yet to reveal the date of the title match.