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NJPW Wrestling Dontaku Night One Results 5.3.26: Andrade El Idolo Wins IWGP Global Heavyweight Title, More

May 3, 2026 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2026 Yota Tsuji Andrade El Idolo Image Credit: NJPW

The first night of NJPW Wrestling Dontaku took place on Sunday morning, with Andrade El Idolo winning IWGP gold and much more. The first night of the two-night event took place this morning at the Fukuoka Convention Center in Fukuoka, Japan and also featured Will Ospreay in action.

The show saw Andrade El Idolo defeat Yota Tsuji to capture the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship. This marks Ídolo’s first reign with the championship and ends Tsuji’s second reign at 202 days. Tsuji defeated Gabe Kidd to recapture the title at King of Pro-Wrestling in October.

You can see the full results below for night one, per NJPW:

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