By: Lewis Carlan New Japan Pro-Wrestling has seen a number of major talent departures in 2025 and into 2026. Some of the names departing NJPW recently have been EVIL, SANADA, Hiromu Takahashi, Dave Finlay, Gabe Kidd & Clark Connors. NJPW has traditionally offered much of its talent roster one year contracts that normally expire at the start of each new year. With promotions such as AEW and to a lesser extent WWE looking to add new talent to its roster, this has posed a serious problem for NJPW. Tony Khan of AEW has shown that he is not shy when it comes to offering big money to draw top talent away from NJPW and he has succeeded quite a bit in luring wrestlers to his USA based promotion. NJPW President Hiroshi Tanahashi addressed this in a recent interview with Proresu-Today. Tanahashi stated NJPW needs to create a barrier to prevent…

When Will Ospreay left New Japan Pro-Wrestling and joined AEW back in March 2024, he relinquished his role as leader of the United Empire which is the faction he created with Great-O-Khan in Oct. 2020.

The New Japan Cup 2026 tournament, which began back on March 4th, came to an electrifying conclusion on March 21st at a sold out Aore Nagaoka with over 3,000 fans on hand for the event.

On March 20th, Pro Wrestling NOAH held its LETHAL ODYSSEY TOUR 2026 event at Kobe Sambo Hall as 804 fans were on hand to witness the event.

NJPW were in Nagaoka for the semi-finals of the New Japan Cup. Yuya Uemura managed to overcome the might of Boltin Oleg, while Callum Newman denied an all RoughStorm cup final by defeating Shota Umino.

On March 20th, All Japan Pro-Wrestling headed to the Esforta Arena Hachioji Main Arena as 1,750 fans were on hand for the latest DREAM POWER SERIES 2026 event.

The highly anticipated matchup between Katsuhiko Nakajima and Hayabusa took place on March 20th when Pro Wrestling ZERO1 returned to Shin-Kiba 1stRING.

Former Olympic judo gold medalist Aaron Wolf made his highly anticipated debut for New Japan Pro-Wrestling back on Jan. 4th at Wrestle Kingdom 20. In his first bout, he went on to defeat EVIL and win the NEVER Openweight Title.

Another big crowd turned out for the second day of the TJPW Texas Stampede tour. In front of over 1,500 fans in the Palmer Events Center, Ober Eats built up some steam as they prepare for the title defence at TJPW GRAND PRINCESS.

On March 20th Hayabusa will go one on one with Katsuhiko Nakajima when Pro Wrestling ZERO1 returns to Shin-Kiba. This special singles showdown has been in the making since February, when Nakajima showed up unannounced at the ZERO1 dojo.