NJPW New Japan Cup 2026 Finals Results – March 21, 2026 – Yuya Uemura vs. Callum Newman

Results
Mar 21, 2026

March 21, 2026
Nagaoka, Japan – Aore Nagaoka
English Commentary: Walker Stewart and Chris Charlton
Results via Corey Michaels of F4WOnline.com

Quick Match Results

  1. NJPW World TV Championship Open Challenge match – Konosuke Takeshita (c) defeated Yujiro Takahashi via Ragging Fire (pinfall 8:10)
  2. Six-Man Tag Team match – Taichi, El Desperado, & Masatora Yasuda defeated Goto Revolutionary Army via Pinche Loco (pinfall 8:57)
  3. Six-Man Tag Team match – HOUSE OF TORTURE (DOUKI, SHO, & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) defeated YOH, Master Wato, & Ryusuke Taguchi via Roll-up (pinfall 8:26)
  4. United Empire (Great-O-Khan & HENARE) defeated Shota Umino & Tomoaki Honma via Ultima (submission 10:46)
  5. Six-Man Tag Team match – United Empire (Jake Lee, Francesco Akira, & Jakob Austin Young) defeated Unbound Co. (Shingo Takagi, Drilla Moloney, & Taiji Ishimori) via Ground Tarantula (submission 8:42)
  6. Six-Man Tag Team match – Boltin Oleg, Aaron Wolf, & Toru Yano defeated HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, Don Fale, & Dick Togo) via Inverted Triangle Hold (submission 7:14)
  7. Eight-Man Tag Team match – TMDK defeated Unbound Co. (Yota Tsuji, Yuto-Ice, OSKAR, & Daiki Nagai) via Modified Clarky Cat (submission 8:44)
  8. New Japan Cup 2026 Finals – Callum Newman defeated Yuya Uemura via Prince’s Curse (pinfall 25:52)

NJPW World Television Championship Open Challenge Match
Yujiro Takahashi vs. Konosuke Takeshita (c)

Chase Owens accompanied his House of Torture faction mate Takahashi to the ring. They settled who would challenge Takeshita by way of Rock, Paper, Scissors, which Takahashi won.

Takeshita, firmly focused on Takahashi, was struck from behind by Owens’s Neckbreaker. Takahashi maintained control mostly by hurling the champ into the steel barricades outside. Takeshita’s Driving Knee laid siege to Takahashi’s momentum, much to the challenger’s panic. The champion dodged Takahashi’s Pimp Cane and sent Owens tumbling with a Blue Thunderbomb. A Raging Fire via Takeshita saw his successful title retention over Takahashi.

Winner: Konosuke Takeshita via Pinfall to retain the NJPW World Television Championship.

Post-match: Takeshita wanted to settle a rivalry from 2025, involving Shota Umino.

Goto Revolutionary Army (Hirooki Goto,YOSHI-HASHI, & Tatsuya Matsumoto) vs. Taichi, El Desperado, & Masatora Yasuda

Matsumoto worked on the left arm of Yasuda after the first bell. Bishamon convened with Matsumoto to rain fists on Yasuda’s back. Taichi momentarily gained control with a spinning backfist to Goto. Matsumoto unleashed an uppercut to Taichi and followed with a duck-under suplex to Desperado. A Spinebuster courtesy of Desperado, combined with a Pinche Loco, earned the masked wrestler’s team the victory.

Winner: Taichi, El Desperado, & Masatora Yasuda via Pinfall.

YOH, Master Wato, & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (DOUKI, SHO, & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)

Taguchi rescued YOH from the obligated House of Torture ambush, planting DOUKI to the mat. House of Torture resorted to hurling their opponents into the steel guardrails outside. Kanemaru engaged Wato in a Boston Crab, which DOUKI followed with a brainbuster. YOH outsmarted SHO with a DDT before slinging DOUKI into the guardrail. Taguchi broke up DOUKI’s Daybreak DDT to engage a firm Ankle Lock. DOUKI pulled the referee down so Kanemaru could low-blow Taguchi with a wrench. Unfortunately for Taguchi, DOUKI seized the opportunity to flip him over for the pinfall.

Winner: HOUSE OF TORTURE via Pinfall.

Shota Umino & Tomoaki Honma vs. United Empire (Great-O-Khan & HENARE)

Umino and HENARE’s standoff in the beginning moments culminated in a shoulder tackle from the former. Khan and HENARE swarmed Umino, who fought back valiantly with a dropkick to HENARE and chops to Khan. Umino dazed HENARE so Honma could finally land a Kokeshi. HENARE secured a full-nelson and a Southern Cross before dismantling him with another, more vigorous, full-nelson.

Winner: United Empire via Submission.

Unbound Co. (Shingo Takagi, Drilla Moloney, & Taiji Ishimori) vs. United Empire (Jake Lee, Francesco Akira, & Jakob Austin Young)

Moloney stood unflinching to Young’s attempts to collide and topple him. Takagi joined in the fun as he and Moloney charged Young. Akira pinned Moloney to the barricade, whereas Lee chased Takagi into the crowd. An irate Young stomped a mudhole through Moloney in the corner. Takagi got his revenge on Lee with a Dangerous Driver. Unfortunately for him, he fell victim to Lee’s gloved invasion of his mouth. Ishimori applied a crossface to Akira, to which the Italian frantically clutched a rope break. Lee halted a stampeding Takagi with a Giant Killing. Despite this momentum for Unbound Co., Ishimori was forced to submit to Akira’s Ground Tarantula.

Winner: United Empire via Submission.

Boltin Oleg, Aaron Wolf, & Toru Yano vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, Don Fale, & Dick Togo)

Narita stood in horror after Boltin halted his patented Boltin Shake to Togo, as he threw the House of Torture member at him. Togo whirled the legal Yano into the steel guardrails and into the ring to deliver a series of elbow and knee shots. Yano slapped the back of Fale’s head and blamed it on the referee; he took advantage of the Tongan’s distraction by removing a turnbuckle pad. Wolf rampaged into the ring, dispatching Togo and dropping a senton to Fale. House of Torture went mobile as they ran a train on Wolf, capitalizing via their infamous Dick-to-Dick Contact. Togo shrank in terror at the looming shadows of Boltin and Wolf, with ample reason: Wolf submitted him with a triangle hold.

Winner: Boltin Oleg, Aaron Wolf, & Toru Yano via Submission.

Unbound Co. (Yota Tsuji, Yuto-Ice, OSKAR, & Daiki Nagai) vs. TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr., Ryohei Oiwa, Hartley Jackson, & Kosei Fujita)

Ice went on a warpath, downing Oiwa, Sabre, and Fujita, barely staggering Jackson on the ropes. His Bomboclat increased further punishment for the fiery-maned Oiwa. OSKAR’s luck wasn’t so grand, with Oiwa and later Sabre crippling the giant’s knee. The orange-clad Brit cut off the towering Jerman’s leg, torquing it in a standing Ankle Lock. Sabre countered OSKAR’s leg drop for a punt kick. Tsuji temporarily perched Jackson over his shoulder, but the sheer dead weight of the massive Aussie proved too much. Fujita exploited the air between Tsuji’s respite with a soaring dropkick from the top turnbuckle.

Nagai cracked Fujita’s chest with an unearthly chop. Fujita retorted with a God Special. Momentary fire and spirit permeated through Nagai until Fujita tapped him out with a hammerlock.

Winner: TMDK via Submission.

Post-match: Ice and Oiwa set a rematch: Knockout Brothers versus Oiwa and Sabre for the IWGP Tag Team Championship at Sakura Genesis.

New Japan Cup 2026 Finals
Yuya Uemura vs. Callum Newman

Newman groaned on the mat in the unrelenting arms of Uemura’s headlock. He leveraged the hold, momentarily, in a headscissors. Uemura resumed control over Newman’s bandaged left arm. The mat thundered as Newman picked up speed, subverted by Uemura’s well-placed arm drag. Newman snatched the dominance of the match, stomping Uemura’s arm into the steel guardrail before a nearby Hiroshi Tanahashi. Uemura mounted a comeback by way of a flying crossbody.

Newman fired off a roundhouse kick, to which Uemura replied with a dropkick. He interrupted a vicious forearm exchange to seemingly plead with Uemura before spitting in his face. Newman obliterated Uemura with a Firebolt. The Niigata crowd boomed with applause when Newman’s lariat decimated Uemura. A poisonrana and Excalibur kept Uemura prone on the mat. Zane Jay charged Referee Red Shoes to distract from a steel chair he slid into the ring. Uemura swiftly dropkicked him out of the equation.

Uemura struck Newman with a Deadbolt, which was met by the Brit wrestler’s Prince’s Curse. Pure desperation perspired in an Excalibur and another Prince’s Curse, devastating Newman when neither bore fruit. A German Suplex, Snapdragon Suplex, and Deadbolt Suplex grounded Newman. The United Empire’s leader rejected a Flying Cross for a Prince’s Curse to break the hearts of Uemura fans everywhere.

Winner: Callum Newman via Pinfall to become the winner of the 2026 New Japan Cup Tournament.

Post-match: Newman boasted of his victory. Yota Tsuji greeted him, informing him he’d be ready at Sakura Genesis. The United Empire surrounded Tsuji, leading to his departure from Newman. The New Japan Cup winner moved on, stating his goals now that he’s made this milestone, that he’d be the new Ace of NJPW.

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