Daiki Nagai Added to NJPW Best of the Super Juniors 2026 Tournament

As noted before, current IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion DOUKI announced that he was “boycotting” this year’s Best of the Super Junior tournament following his victory over Tiger Mask to retain his title at this past Wednesday’s NJPW Wrestling Hizen no Kuni 2026 event in Saga, Japan.

New Japan Pro Wrestling provided an update earlier today announcing that Dakai Nagai will be replacing DOKUI for their upcoming Best of the Super Juniors 2026 tournament, which takes place from May 14th to June 7th in Japan.

Daiki Nagai made a personal appeal to Hiroshi Tanahashi to enter Best of the Super Jr.!#BOSJ33 https://t.co/Do9ir4dE3I

— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) May 1, 2026

Updated field of competitors and Group Blocks for NJPW Best of the Super Juniors 2026 tournament:

A Block:

• Master Wato
• Ryusuke Taguchi
• Kosei Fujita
• Robbie X
• Francesco Akira
• Titán
• Valiente Jr.
• Nick Wayne
• Jun Kasai
• Daiki Nagai

B Block:

• El Desperado
• KUSHIDA
• YOH
• Robbie Eagles,
• Taiji Ishimori
• Jakob Austin Young
• SHO
• Yoshinobu Kanemaru
• Hyo
• Daisuke Sasaki