New Japan Pro Wrestling 3/21/2026 New Japan Cup 2026 Day 12

New Japan Pro Wrestling 3/21/2026 New Japan Cup 2026 Day 12 

NJPW World Television Title Match - Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Yujiro Takahashi

They hocke fight to start. YT shoulders him over and stomps him. KT flying lariats him. YT rolls out. Chase Owens comes in and neckbreakers KT. YT's head is banged off the buckles and he is choked. YT legdrops him and falling headbutt drops him for 1. YT chokes him.

YT eye rakes him. KT hits some forearms and is hit with a baseball slide for 2. KT is thrown out and Chase clubs on KT outside. KT hits some shots on him. KT is then sent into the post. KT ddt's Chase on the floor. KT sends YT into the rails and into seats. YT reverse ddt's him on the floor. 

Chase grabs KT's foot to stop him from getting in but KT escapes. KT rolls up YT for 2 then forearms him. YT olympic slams him for 2. KT low flying knees him. YT bites his hand then low blows him. YT hits a short ddt for 2. YT grabs his cane. Chase comes in and eats a blue thunder. YT lariats KT then KT hits a raging fire on him for the win.

Thoughts: It sucked. It was all shenanigans here and Yujiro did nothing but cheat. The ref was somehow oblivious to all the cheating as well in this.

KT gets on the mic after and calls out Shota Umino. He wants to put his title up against him.

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

Masa shoves Tat before the match. Masa waistlocks Tat and Tat wristlocks him. Masa hammerlocks him and they reverse each other's hammerlocks. Tat goes for armbars and Masa ropebreaks. Tat yanks on Masa's arm then Masa takes a double shoulderblock. Masa is then triple clubbed on.

Masa hits forearms on Goto then dropkicks him. Tai facekicks Goto then Tai side kicks Yoshi. Tai hits chops on Goto and spinning chops him. Goto does a reverse GTR and a lariat. Yoshi htis running back elbows on Tai then chops him down. Tai facekicks Yoshi down.

Despy and Yoshi chop each other. Yoshi headhunters him. Tat comes in and hits shots on Despy. Tat dropkicks Despy for 2. Tat crabs Despy.  A dogpile is started in the ring with everyone laying on Despy.

Tat running euros Tai and water wheel drops Despy for 2. Despy spinebusters Tat for 2. Despy hits an angel's wings on Tat and pins him.

Thoughts: It wasn't too much of note here. Everyone got their section in and not much more. The finish was a bit sudden.  

Six Or Nine (Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi) & YOH vs. House Of Torture (DOUKI, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)

RT's partners are jumped in the back and carried out. Yoh is sent into the post and rails. Douki is tripped into a baseball slide. RT hits hip attacks on Douki. Wato hits chest kicks on Douki. Wato is then pulled crotch first into the post. Yoh is then sent into the rails. 

YK slams Yoh on the floor. YK back body drops Wato then crabs him. YK stomps on Wato. Douki suplexes Wato for 1. YK eye rakes Wato then Wato zig zags him. Yoh goes for everything is evil on Sho. He then ddt's him. Yoh sends Douki into the rails. Yoh cannonballs YK off the buckles and goes for pin attempts. 

Sho dropkicks Yoh in the knee. Douki ddt's Yoh's knee and bangs it off the mat. Yoh dropkicks Douki. RT comes in and sliding hip attacks Douki. RT ankle locks Douki. Douki goes for a slingshot but RT catches him with the ankle lock again. Douki grabs the ref and Sho shoves a wrench up RT's crotch. Douki then pins RT.

Thoughts: Similar to the opener, it was crap with the heels doing little but cheating and the ref being unable to do anything about it. It wasn't that good of a match and certainly wasn't very rewarding.

Yoh and Douki butt heads after.

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

Shota and Hen go at it. They roll on the ropes. Shota thinks of punching him but doesn't. They trade forearms. They shoulder each other then butt heads. Hen shoulders him over then Shota shoulders him over. Hen takes a double shoulderblock. Khan trips Honma and sends him into the rails.

Hen hits a wasteland on him and sentons him. Hen grabs him by the chin. Khan boots Honma around. Khan tells him to hit him then trips him. Khan hits mongolian chops. Honma ddt's him. Shota comes in and shoulders Khan over then dropkicks Hen. 

Shota hits chops and forearms on Khan. Shota fisherman suplexes him for 2. Khan rams Shota into the buckles. Khan then back body drops him. Hen hits back kicks on Shota. Shota and Hen trade forearms. Shota tornado ddt's Hen. Honma hits forearms on him then running back elbows him. Honma bulldogs Hen.

Honma misses a falling headbutt on Hen. Honma takes corner lariats and Hen samoan drops Honma for 2. Honma headbutts Hen then lariats him down. Honma falling headbutt drops Hen for 2. Honma flying headbutts Khan. Hen spin kicks Honma in the face and lariats him for 2. 

Hen full-nelson's Honma then lariats him hard from behind. Hen full-nelson's him again and Honma submits.

Thoughts: What we got was okay but nothing you really need to see. Hen hit a good hard lariat from behind on Honma near the end here. Shota wasn't bad in this.

The heels stand on Honma after. 

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

Drilla backs up JAY in the corner. JAY takes a swing and is hit with chops. JAY side headlocks him. They shoulderblock battle. DM back body drops him then shoulders him over. JAY takes a double shoulderblock. DM slams Jake. DM and Shingo are pulled out together. 

Akira bangs DM's head off the apron. Lee sends Shingo into the post.  JAY boots DM in the corner. DM hits chops on Lee. DM dropkicks Lee.  Shingo boots Lee's knee. Shingo hits a flatliner + ddt combo then ddt's Lee. Lee sticks his finger in Shingo's mouth and shakes it. Shingo hits punches on Lee.

Lee and Shingo trade forearms. Lee knees Shingo then guillotine chokes him. Shingo suplexes him. TI comes in and handspring corkscrew kicks Akira. He rolling death valley drivers him and superkicks him for 2. Akira facekicks TI twice. TI takes a double team bomb. DM pop up powerbombs JAY. Akira rolls DM into a double stomp. Lee knees Shingo in the gut. Shingo shoulders Lee over.  

TI jumping knees Akira. TI la mistica drops him and Akira rolls him into a submission. Akira then pins him.

Thoughts: It was similar to the last match with everyone getting their section in and not much else. It didn't get the time to be that good. 

Lee and Drilla fight after.  

Aaron Wolf, Oleg Boltin & Toru Yano vs. House Of Torture (Dick Togo, Don Fale & Ren Narita)

The heels attack before the bell. Oleg chops Ren. Togo eye rakes Oleg then Oleg goes for karelin's lift. Oleg throws Togo onto Ren. Oleg slams Ren then splashes him for 2. Yano goes to take a turnbuckle pad off and the ref says no. Ren then chokes and eye rakes Yano. Yano is sent into the exposed buckle. They all fight outside. Yano is eye raked and sent into the rails. 

Ren back elbows Yano down in the ring. Togo stomps on Yano then elbows and knees him. Fale stands on Yano's back. Fal goes into the exposed buckle when Yano moves. 

Wolf comes in and cleans house. He hits knees on Fale and corner lariats him. Wolf shoulders over Fale then elbow drops him for 2. Fale corner splashes Wolf. Wolf takes running corner attacks then a 2nd rope chop to the crotch for 2. 

Togo is surrounded by the faces. Togo tries to push Oleg into Wolf but can't. Wolf cradle shocks Togo and does a reverse triangle on him to win.

Thoughts: It was the usual HoT stuff and wasn't anything special. 

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

 Ice and Oiwa grab each other by the hair then butt heads before the match. Oiwa side headlocks Ice then wyanks on his arm. Oiwa shoulders the arm. Ice forearms and slaps him. Oiwa rolls him up then ardmrags him. Oiwa shoulders him over. Ice is thrown shoulder first into the buckles. Ice facekicks Oiwa. 

Ice hits kicks and knees on Oiwa. He corner meteora's him for 2. Ice throws Oiwa down backwards. Oskar is pushed into Ice. Zack comes in and dropkicks Oskar in the knee. Zack hits leg kicks and gets on his back with a sleeper. 

Zack ankle locks Oskar. Oskar pushes him away. Oskar running back elbows him in the corner. Zack PK's him. Hart and Yota fight. Yota step up knees him in the corner then suplexes him for 2. Hart forearms corner splashes Yota. Hart lariats Yota then sentons him. 

Kosei gets in. He chops Yota, shoves the ref and boots him. He then stands on his neck in the corner. Kosei springboard dropkicks Yota. Yota headbutts him down. Nagai comes in and hits forearms on Kosei. Nagai pounces him in the corner then corner dropkicks him for 2.

Nagai is tripped into a sufboard variation by Kosei. Oskar breaks it up. Oskar slams Zack. Oiwa lariats Oskar over the top. Oiwa dropkicks Ice then Ice PK's him. Nagai sunset flips Kosei. They trade forearms and chops. Nagai headbutts him. Kosei then armbars him. He then submits him with an armlock.

Thoughts: Everyone got their section in and not much else. What we got was fine but not really anyone's best. Kosei looked alright vs Yota. Ice and Oiwa should be good whenever that ends up happening. I would have been fine with this going a lot longer.

Ice talks to Oiwa on the mic after. He says he knows he hates him and wants to feel that hate. He says he's always ready to beat the crap out of him. Ice says his fire is the money maker in wrestling and says if they beat up each other, maybe they can make a lot of money. Oiwa goes to talk but Ice had shut off the mic on him. Oiwa says this is NJPW and it's not about fighting but wrestling. He says  he won't take the fight he's trying to pick. Oiwa says pure wrestling will make him a champ. Ice offers up a tag title match with Oskar/Ice vs Zack/Oiwa. 

Ice says he wants to feel his hate and says it's about money. He says let's get high and says it's not about tickets but feeling. 

New Japan Cup 2026 Final Match - Yuya Uemura vs. Callum Newman

CN leg kicks him and they trade some basic holds. Yuya side headlocks him and armlocks him. CN punches him in the gut. He then armdrags him out of the ring. CN is sent into the rails outside. Yuya single arm ddt's him. Yuya armdrags him and pulls back on the arm. CN sells the arm. Yuya chops him. CN sweeps him and knees him in the side of the body. 

CN kicks him in the back and kneels on him for 2. CN grabs him by the nose then stomps him. CN hits kicks. Yuya fires back. CN arm whips him down then kicks him in the arm. Yuya's arm is kicked into the rails in front of Tanahashi. CN then spits on Tanahashi.

Yuya is sent into and over the rails. CN hits kneelifts inside. Yuya flips out of a suplex and 2nd rope twisting crossbodies him. Yuya hits chops, armdrags him and suplexes him. Yuya backdrops him for 2 and CN ropebreaks on his armbar attempt. Yuya armbreakers the arm over his shoulder.

CN spin kicks him then tiger suplexes him for 2. Yuya backdrops him. CN high kicks him then Yuya dropkicks him. Both men are down. They trade forearms on their knees. Yuya forearms him down. CN spits at him. CN buzzsaw kicks him then cross legged suplexes him for 2. 

They go up on the buckles and Yuya armdrags him down. Yuya goes for the kimura and CN ropebreaks. CN spinning forearms him and is hit with an enzugiri. CN lariats him for 2. CN poisonrana's him  then double stomp's the back of his head for 2. CN grabs the ref and a chair is slid in by Zane Jay. 

Yuya dropkicks the chair into Zane then hurricanrana's CN into an armbar. Yuya headbutts him. CN low blows him then hits a high angle underhook ddt for 2. CN double stomps Yuya's back. CN hits an underhook suplex for 2. Yuya germans him for 2. Yuya dragon suplexes him for 2. Yuya front suplexes CN. Yuya frogsplashes him off the top for 2. Yuya coems off the top and is superkicked. CN hits a big lariat for 2. CN then F-5's him into a swinging side slam and wins.

Thoughts: Just LOL at Yuya losing. This promotion does not like that guy and clearly does not see him on the level of Yota or Shota, even though I think he's better than both. The match was alright with Yuya working the arm and eventually getting put down. Newman isn't exactly the greatest foreign prospect NJPW has ever pushed but at least they are pushing someone younger at a time when they have to get some new faces established. He's not exactly my idea of a main eventer though.

Newman says no one wanted to win this more than him. He says he's been carrying the company and it's his company now. He says he's NJPW's ace now. Yota Tsuji comes out and congratulates him. He says Newman can face him on 4/4 and asks if he's ready. The rest of United Empire surround the ring and Yota leaves. Newman says he will see him at Ryogoku. He says he's the king slayer but also the NJPW Cup winner. 

Overall thoughts: It was your typical NJPW tournament finals show. We always get a bunch of throwaways on this and then one bigger singles match and that's what we got here. The main was okay but nothing must see and this wasn't exactly NJPW's best effort. I'd give this a 5 out of 10 and thought it was maybe even a little below average. I wouldn't recommend this.