[Spoilers] New Year Dash 2026 Results – both sets of duos Tag titles on the line

Wolf watch is over… for now. But in related news the three new Young Lions are at ringside, two of whom have been identified as Sean Tohi and Cian Devin who went through the Fale Dojo.

Satoshi Kojima, Taichi, Tomohiro Ishii def Katsuya Murashima, Yuya Uemura, Shota Umino — (10:23, Boston Crab)

• Shota comes out with the long pants, but after the entrances he strips down to the shorts. During his entrance he stops to give a young child one of his bracelets. He’s also wearing a necklace (that I think maybe Ospreay gave him).

• Shota & Ishii and Yuya & Taichi stare each other down. After a few moments Murashima starts staring down Kojima.

• Taichi and Yuya decide to start.

• Chris Charlton lets slip that Murashima’s excursion is probably going to be in the UK.

• Very good opener. Murashima got a good showing in, during which Ishii’s nose and/or lip got busted open.

• Post match, Ishii goes over and picks Yuya up by the hair. This leads to he and Taichi having a spat with Yuya and Shota.

• Ishii spits blood in Shota’s face, who then attacks him. YL separate them and Ishii leaves.

• Taichi is left and stares down Yuya and the still fallen Shota before leaving.

• Yuya helps Shota out of the ring and to the back.

Rocky Romero, KONOSUKE TAKESHITA def Shoma Kato, El Phantasmo^[w/Jado] — (8:43, Boston Crab)

• ELP does a little fanservice as he enters.

• After the entrances ELP invites Kato to start, but then TAKE steps up and so ELP moves Kato out of the way and takes his place. TAKE and ELP have a brief staredown, during which ELP brings up their G1 match.

• ELP tells Kato to get out of the ring, then forcibly makes him smile for the crowd. ELP and TAKE start.

• Another very good match.

• Post match, TAKE and Rocky stand over Kato. ELP comes in and bumps TAKE out of the way, then picks up Kato and tosses him out of the ring. ELP has a staredown with TAKE, then applauds for him as he leaves the ring. ELP does pick up Kato and help him to the back, giving him a smooch on the cheek as he does so.

Boltin Oleg, YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto def Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Yujiro Takahashi, SANADA^{[mesh version]} — (9:23, Shoto into the Boltin splash)

• SANADA has the LED screen on the back of his guitar, it says “Goodbye NJPW. See you next f***in time.” His screen last night also said something similar, and he made a post on IG that says “one match remains.”

• We get up to the faces deciding who’s going to start before HoT attack. Nobu and Goto stay in the ring to start.

• HoT Shenanigans level: moderate. SANADA wrestled the whole match in the full mesh fit.

• Nothing notable post match beyond that SANADA picked up his guitar and made sure we could see the message as he left.

• In his Backstage Comments, SANADA says he’s leaving this ring as of today, and going on a journey to… (didn’t finish the sentence).

• In their Backstage Comments, Bishamontin say they want to challenge for the NEVER 6 titles.

Jakob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, Andrade El Idolo def Clark Connors, Hiromu Takahashi, Gabe Kidd — (10:31, The Message)

• UE attack right as the announcer is finishing up. Akira keeps Hiromu in the ring to start.

• Nagai is in WDUa’s corner for the match, but didn’t come out with them.

• Very good. UE we’re still heelish but in more of a Bullet Club way than the HoT shenanigans way they’d been during WTL.

• Post match, they kick a YL out of the ring and Akira spits on Clark.

• Andrade asks for a mic, but Gabe intercepts the staff member.

• Gabe says “there’s nothing else to say, you have something to say, let’s fight about it.”

• They do. After a few moments the YL succeed in separating them, and Andrade leaves the ring to go sit nonchalantly at the timekeepers table.

• We hear another skirmish in the background but I didn’t see who was involved. (Akira and Hiromu is a good bet through.)

• Gabe has the mic again. In Japanese, he talks about how La Sombra was once an IC Champ. Well Gabe is a former Global Champ. Februrary 11th at New Beginning Osaka, Gabe vs Andrade, winner gets a Global title shot.

• Gabe does the Tranquilo laying down pose and flips Andrade off. Andrade brings the chair into the entrance aisle and sits down. But both men leave without any more physicality.

Master Wato, YOH, Toru Yano, Aaron Wolf def Dick Togo, Don Fale, Ren Narita, EVIL — (5:37, Texas Clover Hold)

• Wolf’s entrance video now has footage of him beating EVIL. Side note, I think him going full Young Lion with his look was a fantastic decision. YOH is also back to his regular black hair after his Yano cosplay yesterday.

• HoT attack during Yano’s entrance. After some double teaming, it’s Dick left with Wolf.

• HoT Shenanigans level: moderate. At one point Dick rang the bell and declared the match over and EVIL the winner, Happy New Year!

• YOH used a sling blade followed by the Texas Clover Hold to win.

• Post match, HoT attack during the victory announcement. Ren and his push-up bar are left in the ring with Wolf. Wolf takes the bar to the Dome, then Ren briefly holds up the NEVER title, before tossing it behind him as he leaves the ring.

• Yasuda and Matsumoto help Wolf out of the ring and to the back.

HENARE, Great-O-Khan, Callum Newman, Jake Lee def Drilla Moloney, Shingo Takagi, David Finlay^[w/Gedo], Yota Tsuji — (8:56, Dual Eliminator)

• For his entrance, Tsuji has the Global on his shoulder but the other belt around his waist under his coat.

• During his entrance announcement he stops the announcer as he’s saying “IWGP World Heavyweight” and whispers in his ear. It’s revealed that, as teased on social media, Tsuji has the Heavyweight title around his waist, not the WHC.

• Nagai is again in WDUa’s corner, but didn’t come out with them. Tsuji has tape on his left elbow and right shoulder/neck/upper back.

• The two teams stare each other down. Tsuji gets a mic. He tells Jake “sorry, you can’t take over a year off and think you can immediately challenge for the IWGP Heavyweight title.” (huge Yota chant) “But as a wrestler, I’ll say that if you want to challenge, state your case, I know you’re a big talker, convince me.” He offers the mic to Jake.

• There’s a bit of a Jake chant. He accepts the mic, then attacks Tsuji. The rest of UE attack, leaving Jake and Tsuji in the ring.

• Post match, GOK and HENARE keep assaulting Drilla and then attack Shingo when he comes in.

• Jake has the Heavy belt and is caressing it. Tsuji gets up on the apron and tells him to give the belt back. Jake eccentrically gives it to him, then slaips him. Tsuji slaps Jake, then starts leaving.

• Callum gets in the ring and starts taunting Finlay, who is enraged and begins throwing chairs in the ring. YL and Gedo hold Finlay back, Gedo telling him to calm down.

• Callum sits in one of the chairs and gets a mic. Tsuji leaves, Shingo and Drilla leave as Callum is talking.

• Callum tells Finlay that he didn’t spend the whole year carrying this faction on his back to get disrespected by Finlay and his little puppers. If Finlay really is the Savage King he thinks he is, name a time and place, and Callum will show him exactly who he’s dealing with. But remember one thing: this isn’t the Empire Finlay left to crumble and shatter in Osaka. This is a brand new Empire.

• Ospreay’s music hits. When he gets to ringside he briefly stares at Finlay, who is then ushered away and to the back by Gedo.

• Ospreay enters the ring. HENARE hugs him. He shakes hands with GOK. Then he goes over and takes the mic from Callum.

• Ospreay engages with the fans for a moment. Then he tells UE he’s come to apologize. He didn’t realize him leaving would cause all this, and he wants to put it right. He can’t come back right now, it’ll be quite a while until he’s back, (recently had neck surgery) but when he’s good to go, he’s going to handle some business in AEW and then come back to NJPW. (huge pop and Ospreay chant) And he’s coming back to support Callum, his little brother who he’s known since Callum was 15. He’s proud of Callum, and he wants to help him. Ospreay will come back and they’ll get the boys back together and they’ll rule the company and they can do it Callum’s way. And Ospreay will support him.

• Callum stands up. They have a staredown. Callum hugs him, but his face is blank. Ospreay tells UE to do the crowns up taunt. HENARE and GOK join him, Jake looks confused for a second but then gets it and does the pose, but Callum lingers in the back.

• Callis picks up the chair, but HENARE and GOK notice and stop him. Ospreay is oblivious.

• Callum shoves by GOK and leaves.

• Ospreay hugs HENARE and GOK then has a few words we can’t hear towards Jake, and ignores the handshake Jake offers as he leaves the ring.

• In the Backstage Comments, Tsuji announces the Unaffilated have become affiliated, and along with War Dogs are creating a new faction called “Unbound Co.” (“Unbound Company” when said out loud).

IWGP Junior Tag titles: Ichiban Sweet Boys (Kosei Fujita, Robbie Eagles) def KUUKAI, El Desperado; Taiji Ishimori, Robbie X; SHO, DOUKI^[c] — (7:20, The Interceptor)

• HoT are last to enter. We get the customary SHO “fuck this hick place and everyone from here” promo, which includes chastising everyone in the ring for “ruining” DOUKI Game yesterday. The other teams start to creep towards them, SHO makes the ref hold them back.

• SHO ends the promo with the yell like he’s about to attack, but he and DOUKI leave the ring instead. KUUKAI hits a dive on to them.

• HoT Shenanigans level: moderate. Nobu showed up but his interference attempt was thwarted.

• Fun little match.

• ISB celebrate and leave.

• Francesco Akira attacks Ishimori as he’s leaving, and brings him into the ring to KO him and stand on his chest. Hiromu runs out and chases Akira away.

• Hiromu gets a mic. He says himself and Ishimori will accept any fight Akira wants to pick. Akira stops at English commentary to say he wants them both, and he’ll fucking kill them both.

IWGP Tag titles: Knock Out Brothers (OSKAR, Yuto-Ice)^[c] def Ryohei Oiwa, Zack Sabre Jr. ^{[w/Hartley Jackson]} — (26:22, K.O.B)

• Zack and Oiwa come out with the WTL trophies along with their NEVER 6 belts. Oiwa has some TMDK orange tips/highlights in his hair that I didn’t notice at WK.

• After the entrances, Oiwa steps up and Yuto gets in his face. OSKAR and Zack stand off. Yuto and Oiwa decide to start.

• Bomboclaat level: 3.75. Yuto lost his mouthguard. Oiwa ended up with a lightly bloody nose.

• Post match, an exhausted Yuto and Oiwa still have hold of each other’s hair. Yuto briefly pulls them so they’re forehead-to-forehead, but then lets go without any incident.

• Shota and Yuya are here, to light boos.

• Shota gets the mic, more light booing. Shota says he and Yuya won’t give up, and want K.O.B to fight them one more time.

• OSKAR waves them off.

• Yuya gets the mic. On the outside, Zack helps Oiwa up and the crowd starts chanting for him.

• Yuto turns to smile and watch Oiwa leave. K.O.B turn back to Yuya and Shota and OSKAR tells them to get the fuck outta here.

• Yuya says they know how strong K.O.B are. But he also knows K.O.B can’t back down from them. He drops the mic and butts heads with Yuto.

• Shota walks up to OSKAR, who just turns away from him.

• Taichi and Ishii come out. K.O.B push past Yuya and Shota to confront them.

• Taichi has the mic, says the fans and NJPW forgot about them. But maybe it’s time to again teach K.O.B how they fight in NJPW. Taichi proposes he and Ishii face K.O.B and Yuya/Shota at the same time.

• Shota gets in Taichi’s face.

• Yuto says now there’s some strong motherfuckers here, and he just wants to fight the strongest motherfuckers there are. They’ve beaten one team once and the other twice. You buddy-buddy Hontai guys, nah you fight each other and then the winners can face us. And K.O.B will give them that pro-wrestling high. (Ice chant) It’s the first show without the Ace, and Ice is going to close it out. So you guys fuck off.

• OSKAR holds up the belts. Taichi steps up to him. Yuto steps up to Ishii. A K.O.B chant breaks out. Shota steps up to OSKAR.

• Yuto asks if these guys understand what he’s saying, they understand Japanese right? Taichi faces off with Yuto in the middle, with Shota trying to butt in.

• Then Yuya steps in and again butts foreheads with Yuto. Ice tells Heat Storm to get the fuck out of the ring, bastard, then shoves him. They keep shoving each other and it starts getting more heated, Shota steps in and pulls Yuya away.

• Yuto and OSKAR step up to Taichi and Ishii. Taichi gets the mic and accepts K.O.B’s proposal.

• Finally the two prospective challenger teams leave the ring.

• Yuto says that’s good, they’re all high on Tag Team wrestling. But it’s K.O.B who are going to carry NJPW. Yuto’s here to fight, make money, and get (pro-wrestling) high. It doesn’t matter who it is, or which of them gets targeted.

• Yuto’s no idiot, he knows how much these fans love pro-wrestling and how sad they are that Tanahashi’s not here anymore. He is no sun, he’s not a guy who’s going to do fanservice, he’s not a cool good-looking hero. But if you’re interested in what Yuto’s selling, in that pro-wrestling high, even though he’s ugly as sin you guys can get on board with his pro-wrestling high.

• Yuto loves pro-wrestling, he lives for pro-wrestling. And he knows there’s a lot of big motherfuckers backstage who feel the same. NJPW is the only place you can get this high. And the great thing about the pro-wrestling high is that once you’re hooked, you’ll just keep getting higher and higher. And the best way for everyone to get high, is to share that around. So come watch more pro-wrestling, go spread the word about pro-wrestling, and fall in love with pro-wrestling like all of them have.

• There might be other places around, but there is nothing like Japanese pro-wrestling, like NJPW. (this isn’t exactly what he said but I’m gonna go with Chris’s version for now, because I want to let NJPW decide on how they translate this) If you’re going through troubles, got a shitty life, you’ve always got a place here. A place that will let you unleash all your feelings.

• In 2026, NJPW belongs to K.O.B. You don’t have to think. All you have to do is feel. LET’S GET HIGH!! BIG UP!

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Personal notes:

Thank you for all the kind words on my last one of these, they were very much appreciated and taken to heart. I intended to respond to them all by now but the holidays got in the way.

I’m still not sure if I’m going to continue these full-time this year, but was feeling up to doing this one. I will likely end up making some polls to ask for opinions on potential changes; and since there’s a big gap between now and the next show, my plan is to just put all the polls on my user sub and then make a single meta post on here with the links to them. So look out for that if these Results posts are important to you.

Thank you to the person who did this favor for me. Also if you were at WK20, still have the pamphlets they gave you when you entered the Dome, and would like to do me a very small favor (at most sending me a photo of something), shoot me a chat request.

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