While it’s not the first event in Japan in the New Year, Pro Wrestling NOAH kicks off 2026 today with their annual New Year’s Day blowout event, NOAH THE NEW YEAR 2026. The main event is an interesting GHC Heavyweight Championship match between Yoshiki Inamura & OZAWA. Representing the future of the promotion, it’s a rematch of late 2022 when then-Taishi Ozawa made his debut against a much different Inamura, who was struggling to make the mid-cad before beginning a pair of training excursions, most recently to WWE as part of NXT and came back with a new look, some decent English and now the top title while OZAWA recently returned from injury and teased a face turn but still seems to solidly be Team 2000X going in, we shall see. Almost every other GHC Championship will also be defended today and there’s even a title match from Europe’s Progress Wrestling to round out a massive card along with a surprise appearance in one title match-the net seems to think it could be the NOAH debut of one Tetsuya Naito and I concur, but we must wait and see…
Today’s event will be held at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only. This is a live & exclusive ABRMA broadcast in Japan, which will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese a short time after the event (with Akitoshi Saito on commentary among others). The 9 match lineup features 6 title matches so this will be a New Year’s all-nighter/morninger depending on where you are with a predicted running time in the 4-5 hour range.
Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka vs. Kazuhuki Fujita, Minoru Suzuki, Junta Miyawaki & Shuhei Taniguchi
KENTA, HAYATA, Tetsuya Endo & Ulka Sasaki vs. Atsushi Kotoge, Mohammed Yone, Hajime Ohara & Hi69
Kaito Kiyomiya & Jack Morris vs. Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows
Progress Atlas Champion Will Kroos. S. Saxon Huxley for the title
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Daga & Daiki Odashima vs. Alejandro & Kai Fujimura and Eita & Shuji Kondo in a 3-way for the titles
GHC National Champion Dragon Bane vs. Alpha Wolf for the title
GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuni & Kenoh vs. BUSHI & TBA for the titles
GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi vs. AMAKUSA for the title
GHC Heavyweight Champion Yoshiki Inamura vs. OZAWA for the title
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