Watch on SFlix. The twelfth and final night of the tournament took place on March 21, 2026, at Aore Nagaoka in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan, and opened with an Open Challenge for Konosuke Takeshita’s NJPW World Television Championship. The show was headlined by the match to crown the winner of the 2026 New Japan Cup, who went on to face Yota Tsuji for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at Sakura Genesis 2026.