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NJPW has confirmed a slate of title matches for Dominion 2026.

One of NJPW’s biggest events of the year, Dominion will be held at Osaka-jo Hall on June 14. A press conference was held overnight with NJPW making its first match announcements for the show. It was officially confirmed that the main event will be Callum Newman putting his IWGP Heavyweight Championship on the line against Yota Tsuji.

Newman vs. Tsuji is a rematch from Sakura Genesis, where Newman defeated Tsuji to become the youngest IWGP Heavyweight Champion in history. Tsuji then earned another shot at the belt by pinning Newman in a tag team match earlier this week.

Among the other title matches set is the first defense for new IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion Andrade El Idolo. The AEW star defeated Tsuji for the title at Wrestling Dontaku and will now defend in a three-way bout against Shota Umino and Drilla Moloney.

Six matches in total have been confirmed for Dominion so far, with five having championship stakes. The show will air live on NJPW World with English commentary.

NJPW Dominion 2026 (Sunday, June 14) —

• IWGP Heavyweight Champion Callum Newman defends against Yota Tsuji
• Three-way match: IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion Andrade El Idolo defends against Shota Umino and Drilla Moloney
• IWGP Tag Team Champions Yuto-Ice & OSKAR defend against Great-O-Khan & Henare
• NEVER Openweight Champion Ren Narita defends against Aaron Wolf
• NJPW World Television Champion Konosuke Takeshita defends against SANADA
• Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa vs. Yuya Uemura & Taichi

The rest of the card will take shape in the coming weeks as NJPW is set to begin its Best of the Super Juniors tour this Thursday (May 14).

The main event of NJPW Dominion 2026 is now set with Yota Tsuji earning an IWGP Heavyweight Championship rematch.

At the June 14 event in Osaka, Tsuji will challenge Callum Newman for the IWGP Heavyweight title. That was confirmed when Tsuji pinned the champion in a tag team match at Ignition to Dominion today. Tsuji & Shingo Takagi defeated Newman & Jake Lee in a bout that had significant stakes. If Tsuji & Takagi had lost, neither would have been able to challenge Newman for his title again.

Tsuji had a three-month reign as IWGP Heavyweight Champion before dropping the belt to Newman at Sakura Genesis this April. In today’s tag match, he connected with a Gene Blaster spear to get the pin on Newman after Takagi took out Lee. Tsuji then got on the microphone and promised to get NJPW back on the right track after the dark road Newman has taken the company down as champion.

This will be the second defense of Newman’s reign. The youngest IWGP Heavyweight Champion in history, he retained over Takagi at night two of Wrestling Dontaku earlier this week.

Dominion is traditionally one of NJPW’s biggest events of the year. Though not confirmed yet, an IWGP Tag Team title match is being built up with Yuto-Ice & OSKAR defending against Great-O-Khan & HENARE. Those teams needed to be separated after O-Khan & HENARE were on the winning side of a 10-man tag match at Ignition to Dominion.

NJPW Dominion 2026 (Sunday, June 14) —

• IWGP Heavyweight Champion Callum Newman defends against Yota Tsuji