Here is a preview of the 2026 New Japan Cup, the tournament begins on March 4th & ends on March 21st.
Yuya Uemura
Entry: 4th
Career Best: Quarter Finals (2025 lost to David Finlay)
Worst: 1st Round (2020 lost to Yoshinobu Kanemaru & 2024 lost to Shingo Takagi)
Great O Khan
Entry: 6th
Career Best: 3rd Round (2022 lost to ZSJ)
Worst: 1st Round (2021 lost to Toru Yano & 2024 lost to Tonga Loa)
Drilla Moloney
Entry: 2nd
Career Best: Quarter Finals (2025 lost to Shingo Takagi)
Worst: Quarter Finals (2025 lost to Shingo Takagi)
Aaron Wolf
Entry: 1st
Career Best: N/A
Worst: N/A
Don Fale
Entry: 10th
Career Best: Finals (2014 lost to Shinsuke Nakamura & 2017 lost to Katsuyori Shibata)
Worst: 1st Round (2019 lost to Will Ospreay, 2021 lost to Toru Yano & 2025 lost to Boltin Oleg)
Shingo Takagi
Entry: 7th
Career Best: Finals (2021 lost to Will Ospreay)
Worst: 1st Round (2020 lost to Sho & 2023 lost to Aaron Henare)
Taichi
Entry: 7th
Career Best: Quarter Finals (2020 lost to Sanada & 2025 lost to ZSJ)
Worst: 1st Round (2023 lost to Sanada & 2024 lost to Ren Narita)
NEVER Openweight Champion Ren Narita
Entry: 5th
Career Best: Quarter Finals (2021 USA lost to Tom Lawlor & 2024 lost to Yota Tsuji)
Worst: 1st Round (2023 lost to Evil & 2025 lost to Gabe Kidd)
Tomohiro Ishii
Entry: 17th
Career Best: Semi Finals (2017 lost to Katsuyori Shibata & 2019 lost to Kazuchika Okada)
Worst: 1st Round (2006 & 2007 lost to Yuji Nagata, 2008 lost to Hiroyoshi Tenzan, 2010 lost to Togi Makabe, 2014 lost to Tetsuya Naito, 2021 lost to Sanada, 2022 lost to Shingo Takagi, 2023 lost to David Finlay, 2024 lost to Chase Owens & 2025 lost to Drilla Moloney)
El Phantasmo
Entry: 5th
Career Best: 2nd Round (2022 lost to Will Ospreay & 2024 lost to Yota Tsuji)
Worst: 1st Round (2023 lost to Tetsuya Naito & 2025 lost to Great O Khan)
NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Champion & Strong Openweight Champion Boltin Oleg
Entry: 3rd
Career Best: 1st Round (2024 lost to Hikuleo & 2025 lost to Shingo Takagi)
Worst: 1st Round (2024 lost to Hikuleo & 2025 lost to Shingo Takagi)
Henare
Entry: 5th
Career Best: 2nd Round (2022 lost to Sanada & 2023 lost to Tama Tonga)
Worst: 1st Round (2019 lost to Lance Archer & 2021 lost to Jay White)
NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Champion Yoshi Hashi
Entry: 12th
Career Best: Quarter Finals (2019 lost to Tomohiro Ishii)
Worst: 1st Round (2015 lost to Yujiro Takahashi, 2016 lost to Tetsuya Naito, 2017 lost to Sanada, 2018 lost to Kota Ibushi & 2023 lost to Kyle Fletcher)
Jake Lee
Entry: 1st
Career Best: N/A
Worst: N/A
NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Champion Hirooki Goto
Entry: 17th
Career Best: Finals (2009 defeated Giant Bernard, 2010 defeated Togi Makabe & 2012 defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi)
Worst: Finals (2013 lost to Kazuchika Okada, 2015 lost to Kota Ibushi, 2016 lost to Tetsuya Naito & 2024 lost to Yota Tsuji)
IWGP Tag Team Champion Oskar
Entry: 1st
Career Best: N/A
Worst: N/A
Callum Newman
Entry: 3rd
Career Best: 1st Round (2024 lost to Gabe Kidd & 2025 lost to Tetsuya Naito)
Worst: 1st Round (2024 lost to Gabe Kidd & 2025 lost to Tetsuya Naito)
Hartley Jackson
Entry: 1st
Career Best: N/A
Worst: N/A
Shota Umino
Entry: 5th
Career Best: Finals (2025 lost to David Finlay)
Worst: 1st Round (2019 lost to Hiroshi Tanahashi & 2024 lost to Jack Perry)
Chase Owens
Entry: 7th
Career Best: Quarter Finals (2020 USA lost to David Finlay)
Worst: 1st Round (2021 lost to David Finlay & 2025 lost to Ryohei Oiwa)
Yujiro Takahashi
Entry: 15th
Career Best: Quarter Finals (2010 lost to Hirooki Goto. 2013 lost to Davey Boy Smith Jr & 2015 lost to Togi Makabe)
Worst: 1st Round (2011 lost to Manabu Nakanishi, 2012 & 2020 lost to Hirooki Goto, 2014 lost to Shelton Benjamin, 2016 & 2024 lost to Toru Yano, 2017 & 2018 lost to Juice Robinson, 2021 lost to Yoshi Hashi, 2022 lost to Tetsuya Naito & 2023 lost to Shota Umino)
IWGP Tag Team Champion Yuto Ice
Entry: 1st
Career Best: N/A
Worst: N/A
Ryohei Oiwa
Entry: 3rd
Career Best: 2nd Round (Lost to ZSJ)
Worst: 1st Round (Lost to ZSJ)
Zack Sabre Jr
Entry: 8th
Career Best: Finals (2018 defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi & 2022 defeated Tetsuya Naito)
Worst: 1st Round (2020 lost to Kota Ibushi & 2023 lost to Shota Umino)
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