KING OF PRO WRESTLING, New Japan’s October blowout event, is now in the books.
Today’s event was held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY on New Japan World. This event aired as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE 2026 exclusively on TV Asahi in Japan. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.
The announced paid attendance was 6422.
Match 1: Daiki Nagai & Shingo Takagi beat Tatsuya Matsumoto & Hirooki Goto. Takagi pinned Matsunoto after Shingo Takagi Death Rider. After this, a recorded Jon Moxkey promo played where he demanded a match with Takagi.
Match 2: El Desperado, Taichi & Yuya Uemura beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Yujiro Takahashi & SANADA. Taichi pinned Takahashi after Black Mephisto.
Match 3: Boltin Oleg & Hechicero (CMLL) beat Hartlry Jackson & Zack Sabre Jr. Oleg pinned Jackson after Kamikaze.
Match 4: Toru Yano & Konosuke Takeshita beat Shun Skywalker & Ren Narita. Yano pinned Skywalker.
Match 5: Jeff (Corn On The) Cobb, OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby) beat NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Will Ospreay, HENARE & Great-O-Khan to win the titles. Cobb, OSKAR & Ice become the 35th NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Ice pinned HENARE. Afterwards, Ospreay issued an IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship challenge with Callum Newman as his partner.
Match 6: NEVER Openweight Champion Aaron Wolf beat Kosei Fujita to retain the title. V1 for Wolf.
Match 7: IWGP Global Champion Gabriel Kidd beat Shota Umino to retain the title. V2 for Kidd. Next up: Taichi. Kidd hinted at it happening on 11/3 in Hiroshima.
Match 8: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Yoh beat Robbie Eagles to retain the title. V4 for Yoh.
Main Event: IWGP Heavyweight Champion Yota Tsuji beat Ryohei Oiwa to retain the title. V2 for Tsuji. Next up: Oleg…or Kenny Omega, who made a surprise appearance for a beatdown on both to end the show.
During the event, President Hiroshi Tanahashi also announced TANAHASHI JAM 2 will be held on 11/19 at Korakuen Hall. This likely will be an exclusive TV Asahi broadcast, if it’s like the first one that means no New Japan World live but maybe on demand after the exclusive TV window ends.
The next event is Taichi School Pro Wrestling 2 Saturday at Ishikari City Hanakawa Minami Junior High School Gym in Hokkaido, a Taichi hometown event. Live streaming as a PPV on New Japan World will begin Friday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET. The PPV is available for pre-order for $22.99 US and will be available for purchase and on demand replays until 11/30 Japan time.
Also, tickets for Tokyo Dome on 14 will go on sale later this week. Based on a map of the planned seating layout, it suggests the setup will be for around 45,000. The Dome’s full capacity, primarily for baseball, is 65,000, but they won’t be using what would be the center field seating areas