NJPW The New Beginning USA 2026 Results – Feb. 27, 2026 – Yota Tsuji vs. Andrade El Idolo

Results
Feb 27, 2026

February 27, 2026
Trenton, NJ – CURE Arena
English Commentary: Walker Stewart and Veda Scott
Results via Corey Michaels of F4WOnline.com

Quick Match Results

  1. David Finlay defeated Fred Rosser via Overkill (pinfall 12:20)
  2. NJPW Strong Openweight Championship – Boltin Oleg defeated Tomohiro Ishii (c) via Kamikaze (pinfall 14:02)
  3. AEW National Championship – Ricochet (c) defeated Taiji Ishimori via Spirit Gun (pinfall 14:29)
  4. El Desperado & KUSHIDA defeated Jordan Oliver & Alec Price via Pince Loco (pinfall 13:57)
  5. NJPW World Television Championship – Konosuke Takeshita defeated El Phantasmo (c) via Raging Fire (pinfall 17:43)
  6. IWGP Tag Team Championship – Knockout Brothers (c) defeated GOA via KOB (pinfall 17:58)
  7. IWGP Women’s Championship – Syuri (c) defeated Athena via Shu Sekai (pinfall 17:56)
  8. IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship – Yota Tsuji (c) defeated Andrade El Idolo via Boston Crab (submission 26:44)

Fred Rosser vs. David Finlay

As the referee was checking Rosser’s boots, Finlay pounced before the bell even rang. Finlay pursued Rosser outside, whalloping him with a series of right hands. Rosser powered through, battering Finlay on the apron. He cornered Finlay, slinging forearms onto his neck. The pair battled on the opposite side’s apron until Finlay shoved Rosser into the ring post.

The War Dog’s momentum continued with a senton. Rosser swung a comeback, hurling Finlay in a snap suplex to the corner. Using Finlay’s head, he swung Rosser around before slamming him into the steel barricade. Finlay responded by powerbombing Rosser into a ring post. Clutching his opponent in a crossface chickenwing, Rosser throttled Finlay. Another chickenwing attempt saw Finlay flinging Rosser into the turnbuckle. Rosser denied an Overkill and countered with a Death Valley Driver. Ultimately, Finlay pinned Rosser with a successful Overkill.

Winner: David Finlay via Pinfall.

Post-match: Finlay asked for a microphone. He observed the audience, smirked, and dropped it. The Knockout Brothers came out to pose with him at the entrance.

NJPW Strong Openweight Championship
Boltin Oleg vs. Tomohiro Ishii (c)

Both men collided, with Oleg standing tall. Ishii recovered with a sound shoulder tackle. The challenger dizzied the champion with his patented Boltin Shake. Ishii absorbed a few elbows from Oleg and replied in kind with a disastrous one of his own. A war of chops erupted between the two wrestlers. Oleg caught Ishii mid-lariat, but the Stone Pitbull headbutted him into near-unconsciousness. Having worn down the champion, Oleg laid out Ishii with a Kamikaze. The New Jersey crowd exclaimed in awe as Oleg ended Ishii’s reign with a Verdict and one last Kamikaze.

Winner: Boltin Oleg via Pinfall to become the new NJPW Strong Openweight Champion.

AEW National Championship
Taiji Ishimori vs. Ricochet (c)

Awash in teasing from the crowd, Ricochet roughed up Ishimori’s hair. Frenetically charging at each other, the pair exchanged multiple nearfalls. Ricochet baited Ishimori to the entrance in a chase reminiscent of one of those Benny Hill memes. Eventually, Ishimori caught Ricochet and laid waste to his chest with a series of chops. Ricochet baldly regained control with a Spaceman Plancha. He threatened to slam his challenger with his National belt. An elevated dropkick continued his dominion over Ishimori, leading to more callous taunting.

Ishimori blasted into a comeback with a Superstar Quebrada. Stripping bare a red turnbuckle pad, Ishimori shoved Ricochet into it and delivered a La Mistica and Bone Lock moments later. Ricochet powered through Ishimori’s arm lock to reintroduce him into the mat with excellent core strength. This discouraged future use of Ricochet’s arm for the duration of the match. Ishimori reached for another Superstar Quebrada, which Ricochet countered, finishing with a Vertigo Drop and Spirit Gun to retain his title.

Winner: Ricochet via Pinfall to retain the AEW National Championship.

El Desperado & KUSHIDA vs. Jordan Oliver & Alec Price

Price and Oliver wasted no time, immediately assaulting their opponents before the bell had a chance to ring. Desperado and KUSHIDA yanked Oliver and Price into one another. Price leapt into the opposition, giving ample time for him and Oliver to isolate KUSHIDA. Oliver suffered KUSHIDA torquing his arm, bending his shoulder back. Despite Desperado adding further anguish to Oliver’s arm, he persevered with a Sunset Flip.

Price moved like a madman, dropping both KUSHIDA and Desperado with dropkicks. Desperado evaded Price’s Blockbuster and collapsed him with a Spinebuster. Oliver and Price spammed more dropkicks. Price usurped Desperado’s Pinche Loco with a Gotcha Busta. Together, KUSHIDA and Desperado knocked Price’s lights out with a punch. KUSHIDA held Oliver down as Desperado pinned Price following a Pinche Loco.

Winner: El Desperado & KUSHIDA via Pinfall.

NJPW World Television Championship
Konosuke Takeshita vs. El Phantasmo (c)

Takeshita came out the worse for wear following a headlock exchange, but his boot rocked Phantasmo. The champion retaliated with a smattering of well-placed hurricanranas. Takeshita DDT’d Phantasmo into the apron, to much of Romero’s cackling delight. This led to Phantasmo’s very close 19-count return to the ring. Soon, Phantasmo recovered with a Tornado-DDT. Using Hiroshi Tanahashi’s famous air guitar, he taunted Takeshita before sending him back-first into the barricade outside. Too-Sweetsaulting from the ring to the crowd outside, Phantasmo miraculously soared into his foe to raucous applause from the fans in Trenton. Takeshita transitioned Phantasmo’s CR-2 into a Blue Thunderbomb. Phantasmo reversed Takeshita’s Raging Fire into one of his own, but before he could make the pin, the time limit elapsed.

Phantasmo grabbed a microphone and beckoned Takeshita back into the ring. Alluding to their previous time-limit draw and Takeshita’s recent draw with Jon Moxley at AEW Grand Slam: Australia, he convinced Takeshita to return. They’d grapple with each other and switch pinfalls on the other. Phantasmo landed a Canadian Destroyer. Takeshita responded with Phantasmo’s CR-2. He then finished off Phantasmo with a Power Drive and Raging Fire to become the new NJPW World Television Champion.

Winner: Konosuke Takeshita via Pinfall to become the new NJPW World Television Champion.

IWGP Tag Team Championship
GOA (Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun) vs. Knockout Brothers (OSKAR & Yuto-Ice) (c)

Kaun and Ice blasted each other with elbows. Thanks to Liona, Kaun isolated Ice in the corner. OSKAR came to Ice’s aid, dispatching Liona with a long-legged kick. Liona barreled Oskar into the barricade and lay it on his carcass. Liona pulled out a rare Stomach Claw to rearrange Ice’s intestines. Through a vertical suplex, Ice crushed Kaun. Liona and OSKAR reunited, clobering each other with thunderous forearms. OSKAR caught a rampaging Liona and slammed him flat on the mat. Failing a Leg Drop, OSKAR suffered a sliding lariat courtesy of Kaun.

Simultaneously holding Ice and OSKAR, Kaun tossed both Knockout Brothers behind him. Liona demolished OSKAR, but Ice remained valiant. Gates of Agony would send him outside and would once more reinstate OSKAR to a horizontal state. The towering German demolished the Gates with a double-clothesline. Ice confidently handled Kaun, but Liona was having none of it; he battered the champion into the mat. Before he could spike Ice with his thumb, Liona nearly succumbed to OSKAR’s sleeper hold. He would be too late to save Kaun from a K.O.B., which saw the Knockout Brothers retain their gold.

Winner: Knockouts Brothers via Pinfall to retain the IWGP Tag Team Championship.

IWGP Women’s Championship
Athena vs. Syuri (c)

Syuri maintained composure against the explosive Athena, resulting in several standstills. She wounded Athena in a cross-armbreaker that lingered seconds after a rope break. Athena shrugged off a Tornado-DDT and redirected Syuri into the steel barricade. The Fallen Goddess inched closer to victory, lariating Syuri in the corner, and swung her in a circle by the head.

Though Athena sent her into the ropes, Syuri rebounded, wheelbarrowing her challenger with a bulldog and securing an armbar. Clutching yet another armbar, Syuri leaned too far back, unwittingly leaning into Athena’s advantageous roll-up. Syuri’s eyes nearly popped out of her head as she trapped both of Athena’s arms behind her shoulders. Sneaking her hold into a sleeper, the champion nearly banished Athena into unconsciousness, had it not been for a rope break. Athena shook off a German suplex and planted her with a Tombstone Piledriver. Syuri retorted with a Death Valley Driver that finished off the challenger once and for all.

Winner: Syuri via Pinfall to retain the IWGP Women’s Championship.

Post-match: Athena denied Syuri’s sportsmanship. Syuri then tauntingly stole Athena’s ROH Women’s World Championship, hinting at an upcoming match for the title. Syuri attempted to leave until the arena went dark. A vignette focusing on Alex Windsor aired, signalling her challenge to Syuri at Eve’s Wrestle Queendom VIII.

IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship
Andrade El Idolo vs. Yota Tsuji (c)

Neither man gave quarter for the other in the opening minutes of this title bout. Anything one threw at the other instantly featured a swift, immediate recovery. A Tope Tsuji-cita eventually broke through Idolo’s defences. Tsuji’s Marlowe Crush early into the match found no target, save for the unforgiving greyness of the mat.

Idolo soon had enough of Tsuji’s dominance and chopped a crater into his chest. He borrowed Eddie Guerrero’s Three Amigos, but only made it to two, courtesy of Tsuji’s gut-checking knees. Rallying up New Jersey in the name of the USA, Tsuji rained fists on Idolo and powerbombed him. Idolo escaped a Boston Crab and engaged a figure-four leglock. Tsuji transitioned it into one of his own, resulting in a battle for control. Idolo tried the Three Amigos once more and then a Spanish Fly atop the second rope. Sending Idolo clear across the ring via hurricanrana, Tsuji shot forth in a Gene Blaster. Idolo countered this with a Sombra bomb.

Tsuji planted Andrade’s head into his knee and fired off a curb stomp. Idolo denied another Gene Blaster, dazing Tsuji with a DDT. They met on the top turnbuckle, bartering headbutts. Twice, Tsuji managed successful Gene Blasters, which still bore no fruit. Sinking in a deep Boston Crab, Tsuji grimaced until Idolo tapped out.

Winner: Yota Tsuji via Submission to retain the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship.

Post-match: Tsuji spoke complete English, thanking Idolo for the match and New Jersey for hosting it. He declared himself not the future but the now of pro wrestling and placed NJPW over all the other promotions going today.

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