Various: NJPW Announces Opponent for Hiromu Takahashi’s Final NJPW Singles Match at 2/8 Road to The New Beginning 2026 Event, Current Card for 2/5 TNA Impact! Show, Current Card for 2/5 ROH x MPX Global Wars Show, Indies/Misc.

Feb 5, 2026

NJPW Announces Opponent for Hiromu Takahashi’s Final NJPW Singles Match at Feb. 8th Road to The New Beginning 2026 Event

As noted before, Hiromu Takahashi will be leaving New Japan Pro Wrestling after his final date with the company at their The New Beginning in Osaka 2026 event on ebruary 11th in Osaka, Japan.

NJPW recently announced that Takahashi will be facing off against Masatora Yasuda for his final singles match in the company at their Road to The New Beginning 2026 event on February 8th in Osaka.

At both competitors' requests, Hiromu Takahashi will wrestle his final NJPW singles match before his sendoff against Masatora Yasuda Sunday in Osaka, wrestling double duty on a special live event!#njnbg pic.twitter.com/wuV9TDZ6VX
— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) February 5, 2026

Takahashi is currently scheduled to team up with Taiji Ishimori in a tag team match against United Empire (Jakob Austin Young & Franceso Akira) at The New Beginning in Osaka 2026 event for his final match in NJPW.

Current Card For Thursday’s TNA Impact! Show

TNA Wrestling announced the card for Thursday’s TNA Impact! show on AMC and Sportsnet 360.

Current card for February 5th TNA Impact! show:

Six-Knockouts Tag Team match – The Elegance Brand (M, Heather, & Ash By Elegance) vs. Angel Warriors (Xia Brookside & Lei Ying Lee) & Indi Hartwell
Mixed Tag Team match – Elijah & Jada Stone vs. Order 4 (Mustafa Ali & Tasha Steelz)
The Righteous (Dutch & Vincent) vs. mystery opponents
Trey Miguel vs. mystery opponent
Tessa Blanchard vs. mystery opponent
Daria Rae to address TNA No Surrender 2026

Current Card for Thursday’s ROH x MPX Global Wars Show

Ring of Honor announced the card for Thursday’s ROH x MPX Global Wars show on HonorClub.

Current card for February 5th ROH x MPX Global Wars show:

ROH Women’s World Television Proving Ground match – VertVixen vs. Red Velvet (c)
ROH Pure Championship Proving Ground match – Exodus Prime vs. Lee Moriarty (c)
MPX Championship – JD Griffey vs. Delynn Cavens (c)
Mixed Eight-Person Tag Team match – Shane Taylor Promotions (Shane Taylor, Trish Adora, & The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Capt. Sean Dean) vs. Reiza Clarke, Demo Diamond, LVJ, & Kari Jai Wright
Six-Woman Tag Team match – Athena & MIT (Billie Starkz & Diamante) vs. Maya World, Hyan, & Deonna Purrazzo
Big Bill & “The Bounty Hunter” Bryan Keith vs. Surf & Turf (Dolph Finn & Combat Wombat)
Abadon vs. Ray Lyn

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

As noted before, Thunder Rosa has been out of action for AEW and the indies since this past July’s All In Texas event due to undisclosed injuries. Riot Cabaret Pro Wrestling recently announced that Rosa will be making her official in-ring return from injury at their Thunder Wall event on April 28th in London, England. It was announced that Rosa will be facing off against Alexxis Falcon for the Riot Undisputed Women’s World Championship at the event.

Denise Salcedo recently announced that Willow Nightingale will be making an appearance at her Denise Salcedo Live podcast show on March 14th in Los Angeles, California.

Jersey Championship Wrestling recently announced that they have pulled Tiger Mask from their upcoming Jersey J-Cup 2026 event on February 6-7 in Jersey City, Jersey due to a personal emergency issue.

In a recent interview with Tokyo Sports, former NJPW and current NOAH talent Tetsuya Naito gave his thoughts about Hiromu Takahashi leaving New Japan Pro Wrestling this month. Naito stated “[Takahashi] was deeply committed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling. I never imagined him leaving; it’s sad. Well, maybe I felt that way too. I had heard that other options were emerging for him. That said, I didn’t tell him anything like ‘You should do this.’ Honestly, my feeling is that he took a step forward. I want to support that step he took.”

In a recent interview with Death Arts Xiii By Ash, TNA commentator Matthew Rehwoldt gave his thoughts about the potential of him wrestling one more match in the future for his wrestling career, Rehwoldt stated “I mean, look, if there’s one thing this business has taught any of us, right? Like never say never. It’s the cheesiest of all the cheesy, corny, cliche things to say. I will say at this point, I don’t have any plans to, this is a wild business. I am healthy. I am spry. I can still go if I wanted to. But yeah, not in the picture right now, but it’s an old cliche for a reason because often it comes true. Never say never.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with Fightful, Paul Heyman gave his thoughts about ECW’s relationship with Acclaim Entertainment and the success of their Anarchy Rulz and Hardcore Revolution video games in 2000. Heyman stated “The ECW video game was interesting because it came out from Acclaim Entertainment and Acclaim Entertainment, at the time, was doing the WWE games and they lost the WWE games over to THQ. THQ was doing the WCW video games and they lost the WCW video games over to EA Sports. So Acclaim Entertainment had a bit of a formula in terms of the game and all they needed to do, all puns intended, was ramp that up to the extreme. Nobody really believed in the ECW video game back in 1999 and when it came out it smashed every record that was available at the moment. So much so that they bum rushed the next game, which was called Anarchy Rulz, as fast as they could out the door because the pre-orders—especially from overseas—had reached a level that had never been seen before.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced that Vipress and Mr. Danger will be making an appearance for the company at their MDK Fight Club event on April 17th in Las Vegas, Nevada.

GCW also recently announced one new match for the card of their They Said It Couldn’t Be Done event on March 6th in Louisville, Kentucky:

GCW Ultraviolent Championship – Reed Bentley vs. Otis Cogar (c)

CMLL recently announced three new matches for the card of their Super Viernes event this Friday at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico:

CMLL Women’s World Tag Team Championship – Neo Genesis (Mei Seira & Starlight Kid) vs. Chicas Indomables (Lluvia & Jarochita) (c)
CMLL Women’s National Tag Team Championship – Candelaticas (Metalica & Candela) vs. Skadi & Kira (c)
Irma González Cup Three-way match – Marcela vs. Magnífica vs. Princesa Sugehit