Episode Details

Join SP3, J-News & Sonal for our NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2026 Review breaking down the two-night event ft. Callum Newman vs Shingo Takagi for the IWGP Heavyweight Title & Yota Tsuji vs Andrade El Idolo for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship.

TIME STAMPS:

0:00 Intro

3:18 SP3, J-News & Sonal welcome you to the show

8:16 Thoughts on big tag team match for Ignition To Dominion main event

10:46 JC Mateo aka Jeff Cobb & Tonga Loa get released from WWE / will they return from NJPW?

21:37 Breaking down the cautionary tale of Jeff Cobb leaving New Japan for WWE

31:16 J-News w/some advice for those who sign with WWE / better success rate starting on NXT if you are from New Japan

Show Recap

41:01 Overall thoughts on 2 night Wrestling Dontaku events

Day 1

43:24 Hontai vs Taguchi Japan 6-Man Tag

48:12 Knockout Brothers vs Tomoaki Honma & Masatora Yasuda

50:50 Hontai & Mistico vs TMDK 8-Man Tag / Mistico & Desperado challenge Ichiban Sweet Boys

57:20 United Empire vs Goto Revolutionary Army 6-Man Tag

1:03:22 Konosuke Takeshita & Shota Umino vs House of Torture

1:09:14 Unbound Co. vs United Empire 10-Man Tag

1:17:09 Aaron Wolf vs Don Fale

1:20:59 Ren Narita vs Boltin Oleg (NEVER Openweight Championship) / challenge from Aaron Wolf for Narita

1:30:36 Yota Tsuji vs Andrade El Idolo (IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship) / Drilla Moloney & Shota Umino challenge Andrade

1:41:10 Andrade & Tsuji both Top 5 wrestlers of 2026 / thoughts on what's next for Global Title / when we get round 3 of Andrade/Tsuji?

1:45:18 Ospreay wanting to be the bridge from AEW to NJPW / short title runs in 1st reign

1:48:38 Ratings on Day 1

Day 2

1:50:40 Masatora Yasuda vs Taisei Nakahara (Pre-Show)

1:52:18 Konosuke Takeshita vs Chase Owens (NJPW World TV Championship) / SANADA returns to attack Takeshita / Takeshita joins Hontai

2:00:18 Unbound Co. vs Taguchi Japan Tag Match / Daiki Nagai ready for Best of Super Juniors

2:02:48 Knockout Brothers vs Shota Umino & Tomoaki Honma

2:06:19 Hontai vs House of Torture 10-Man Tag / Tiger Mask retirement coming

2:08:38 Taichi & Yuya Uemura vs TMDK / Challenge for Taichi & Uemura vs Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.

2:12:51 Unbound Co. vs United Empire 8-Man Tag

2:15:44 Ichiban Sweet Boys vs Mistico & El Desperado (IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles)

2:21:39 Bishamontin vs United Empire (NEVER Six-Man Tag Team Championships) / HENARE & Great O Khan challenge KOB for Tag Titles

2:29:06 Callum Newman vs Shingo Takagi (IWGP Heavyweight Title) / Callum antagonizes Ospreay into joining United Empire attack / Callum challenges Tsuji & Shingo to tag match against him & Jake Lee at Ignition To Dominion for title shot

2:35:59 Newman & Ospreay PERFECT post match angle & promos / more analysis on Callum/Shingo

2:43:10 Ratings for Day 2

2:47:23 Ratings for the entire Dontaku weekend

2:49:10 Outro

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