Andrade El Idolo vs. Yota Tsuji for IWGP Global Heavyweight Title Set for NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2026 Night 1

New Japan Pro Wrestling announced one new match for the card of Wrestling Dontaku 2026 Night 1, which takes place on May 3rd at the Fukuoka Convention Center in Fukuoka, Japan.

This new match announced was an IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship match of Andrade El Idolo vs. Yota Tsuji (c).

This new match was setup following Andrade making a surprise video appearance during Sunday’s Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2026 event in Tokyo. Following Unbound Co.’s (Tsuji, Shingo Takagi, Daiki Nagai, & Gedo) victory over United Empire (Callum Newman, Francesco Akira, Jake Lee, & Zane Jay) in an Eight-Man Tag Team match, Andrade appeared on the big vido screen and issued a challenge to Tsuji for his IWGP Global Heavyweight title at Night 1 of Wrestling Dontaku 2026. Tsuji responded accepting the challenge and it was announced afterwards that this match was made official for the show.

Full card for NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2026 Night 1:

• Master Wato, YOH, & Toru Yano vs. Taisei Nakahara, Ryusuke Taguchi, & Tiger Mask
• Masatora Yasuda & Tomoaki Honma vs. Knockout Brothers (OSKAR & Yuto-Ice)
• Mistico, El Desperado, Taichi, & Yuya Uemura vs. TMDK (Kosei Fujita, Robbie Eagles, Hartley Jackson, & Ryohei Oiwa)
• Tatsuya Matsumoto & Bishamon (YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto) vs. United Empire (Great-O-Khan, HENARE, & Will Ospreay)
• Shota Umino & Konosuke Takeshita vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens)
• Unbound Co. (Daiki Nagai, Robbie X, Taiji Ishimori, Drilla Moloney, & Shingo Takagi) vs. United Empire (Zane Jay, Jakob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, Jake Lee, & Callum Newman)
• Aaron Wolf vs. Bad Luck Fale
• NEVER Openweight Championship – Boltin Oleg vs. Ren Narita (c)
• IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship – Andrade El Idolo vs. Yota Tsuji (c)

Full card for NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2026 Night 2:

• Pre-show: Masatora Yasuda vs. Taisei Nakahara
• NJPW World Television Championship – Chase Owens vs. Konosuke Takeshita (c)
• Tatsuya Matsumoto & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Daiki Nagai & Gedo
• Tomoaki Honma & Shota Umino vs. Knockouts Brothers (OSKAR & Yuto-Ice)
• Master Wato, YOH, Tiger Mask, Toru Yano, & Aaron Wolf vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Yoshinobu Kanemaru, SHO, DOUKI, Don Fale, & Ren Narita)
• Mistico & El Desperado vs. Ichiban Sweet Boys (Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles)
• Taichi & Yuya Uemura vs. TMDK (Hartley Jackson & Ryohei Oiwa)
• Unbound Co. (Robbie X, Taiji Ishimori, Drilla Moloney, & Yota Tsuji) vs. United Empre (Zane Jay, Jakob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, & Jake Lee)
• NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship – United Empire (Great-O-Khan, HENARE, & Will Ospreay) vs. Bishamontin (Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI, & Boltin Oleg) (c)
• IWGP Heavyweight Championship – Shingo Takagi vs. Callum Newman (c)