Below are the quick results from Wrestle Kingdom 20, which took place on 1/4/26 at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.
-TMDK eliminated Oleg Boltin & Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI) in the NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championship Rambo
-Syuri defeated Saya Kamitani to become the new IWGP Women’s Champion & NJPW Strong Women’s Champion
-United Empire (Jake Lee, Andrade El Idolo, Callum Newman, Great-O-Khan & HENARE) defeated War Dogs (David Finlay, Drilla Moloney & Gabe Kidd) & Unaffiliated (Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi). The commentary team also said that Andrade is part of the AEW roster.
-El Desperado defeated Taiji Ishimori, SHO, Kosei Fujita to become the new No. 1 contender to the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
-Aaron Wolf defeated EVIL to become the new NEVER Openweight Championship
-Yota Tsuji defeated Konosuke Takeshita to become the new IWGP World Heavyweight Championship and IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship
-Kazuchika Okada defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi in what was Tanahashi’s retirement match.
Post match notes are courtesy of F4WOnline –
Okada bowed to Tanahashi, and on the microphone, “Thank you.” Officials gifted Tanahashi flowers. Former NJPW talents Jay White, Will Ospreay, Kenny Omega and a tearful and agonized Kota Ibushi gave Tanahashi more flowers, embracing him with a hug as the locker room came out and joined him at ringside.
Katsuyori Shibata, playing heel, wearing an Opps t-shirt, handed Tanahashi his own bouquet of flowers and they locked up one last time before hugging. Keiji Muto also gave flowers, as did Tatsumi Fujinami. Just when it seemed everyone had their moment, BUSHI and Tetsuya Naito surprised Tokyo with his presence as he gave Tanahashi flowers. He took the microphone and said that even if he didn’t ever wrestle in an NJPW ring again, he’d hope to meet Tanahashi again someday. Tanahashi concluded the evening’s proceedings, giving a heartfelt thank you and a couple of air guitar solos.
Also per F4WOnline, the show was a sold out with 46,913 fans in attendance and the Knockout Brothers and Clark Connors were accompanied by AEW’s Thekla.