| NOAH The New Year 2026 | |||
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| Promotion | CyberFight | ||
| Brand | Pro Wrestling Noah | ||
| Date | January 1, 2026 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Nippon Budokan | ||
| Attendance | 6,278 [1] | ||
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NOAH The New Year 2026 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah and took place on January 1, 2026, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Nippon Budokan. It was broadcast on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. [2] It was the first pay-per-view promoted by Noah in 2026. [3]
The event featured eleven professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. [4]
The event started with one preshow bout in which Daga and Daiki Odashima defeated Kai Fujimura and Alejandro, and Eita and Shuji Kondo in three-way tag team competition to secure the second consecutive defense of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in that respective reign.
In the second bout, Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura, Tadasuke and Jun Masaoka outmatched Kazuyuki Fujita, Minoru Suzuki, Shuhei Taniguchi and Junta Miyawaki in eight-man tag team competition. The third bout saw Saxon Huxley defeated Will Kroos to win Progress Wrestling's Progress Atlas Championship, ending the latter's reign at 95 days and three defenses. Next up, Kenta, Ulka Sasaki, Tetsuya Endo and Hayata picked up a victory over Atsushi Kotoge, Muhammad Yone, Hajime Ohara and Hi69 in eight-man tag team competition. In the fifth match, Alpha Wolf defeated former Los Golpeadores tag team partner Dragon Bane to win the GHC National Championship, ending the latter's reign at 77 days and no defenses. After the bout concluded, Wolf joined Team 2000X. Next up, Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows picked up a victory over Kaito Kiyomiya and Jack Morris in tag team competition. The seventh bout saw Bushi and Tetsuya Naito defeat Kenoh and Naomichi Marufuji to win the GHC Tag Team Championship, ending the latter's reign at 19 days and no defenses. In the semi main event, Amakusa defeated Hiromu Takahashi to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship, ending the latter's reign at 115 days and two defenses. After the bout concluded, Daiki Odashima stepped up as Amakusa's new challenger. [5]
In the main event, Yoshiki Inamura defeated Ozawa to secure the second consecutive defense of the GHC Heavyweight Championship in that respective reign. After the bout concluded, Kenoh stepped up as the new challenger, not before Masa Kitamiya also making a statement for a challenge. [6]