NJPW Previews World Tag League Nights 1 and 2, Nov. 23 and 24

New Japan Pro-Wrestling posted its previews for the first two nights of World Tag League 2026 on its news page, dated Thursday, Nov. 12, and Friday, Nov. 13. Night 1 is Monday, Nov. 23, in Yokohama. Night 2 is Tuesday, Nov. 24, in Fukushima. The tournament runs to the Dec. 13 final in Kumamoto. The full field is in our team list story. This story is built from NJPW's two preview posts.

Night 1: Nov. 23, A Block

NJPW's text puts the show at Yokohama Budokan. It also says "Yokohama Arena" once, so we use "Yokohama" elsewhere. These are the matches as NJPW lists them. The last four are six-man previews of later pairings.

• Main event: Knockout Bros. (Yuto-Ice and OSKAR) vs. Monster Sauce (Lance Archer and Alex Zayne)
• Yota Tsuji and Jeff Cobb vs. TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa and Hartley Jackson)
• Yuya Uemura and Yuji Nagata vs. United Empire (Callum Newman and Jake Lee)
• Aaron Wolf and Boltin Oleg vs. House of Torture (SANADA and Yujiro Takahashi)
• Six-man: Wolf, Oleg and Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. SANADA, Takahashi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru
• Six-man: Umino, Satoshi Kojima and Axe Wang vs. Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi and Ryusuke Taguchi
• Six-man: Uemura, Masatora Yasuda and Yushin Hatazawa vs. Newman, Lee and Zane Jay
• Six-man: Toru Yano, Togi Makabe and Shion Obata vs. Don Fale, Chase Owens and DOUKI

NJPW says the Knockout Bros., the IWGP Tag Team Champions, entered last year's league undefeated and lost to Archer and Zayne, a loss it says was "particularly painful" to OSKAR. NJPW says Obata, a graduate of its amateur wrestling program, makes his NJPW World broadcast debut in the opener. On the Tsuji match, NJPW says Oiwa took Tsuji "to the limit" for the IWGP Heavyweight title barely a month ago.

Night 2: Nov. 24, B Block

NJPW's night 2 preview does not name the building. These are the matches as listed. The last four are six-man previews.

• Main event: War Dragons (Takagi and Drilla Moloney) vs. United Empire (Great-O-Khan and HENARE)
• Bishamon (YOSHI-HASHI and Hirooki Goto) vs. House of Torture (Shun Skywalker and Ren Narita)
• Kojima and Umino vs. Dangerous Tekkers (Sabre Jr. and Taichi)
• Most Violent Players (Yano and Makabe) vs. House of Torture (Owens and Fale)
• Six-man: Unbound Co. (Gedo, OSKAR and Yuto-Ice) vs. United Empire (Jay, Lee and Newman)
• Six-man: Unbound Co. (Daiki Nagai, Cobb and Tsuji) vs. Taisei Nakahara, Zayne and Archer
• Six-man: TMDK (Kosei Fujita, Jackson and Oiwa) vs. House of Torture (Kanemaru, Takahashi and SANADA)
• Six-man: Yasuda, Nagata and Uemura vs. Wang, Obata and Matsumoto

NJPW says Skywalker and Narita will be a "first time ever combination." It describes Dangerous Tekkers as three-time former IWGP Tag Team Champions in their first official World Tag League match in four years, and it says Umino "consistently" has the edge on Sabre in tournament action. On the main event, NJPW says O-Khan "remains the biggest mystery" within United Empire, with no apparent interest in either Will Ospreay's or Newman's camp. NJPW lists Gedo in the night 2 six-man as part of Unbound Co. We have not seen NJPW say elsewhere that he has joined the faction, and the post does not explain it.

The preview also says night 3's main event has Nagata and Uemura against Wolf and Oleg. It does not give that show's city.

Pairings that carry over

Archer and Zayne face the Knockout Bros. on night 1 and then a six-man with Tsuji and Cobb on night 2. OSKAR and Archer also meet in a singles match at NJPW Bound for Unbound on Friday, Nov. 20, three days earlier. See our story on that match. Sabre Jr. replaced Tomohiro Ishii as Taichi's partner, per Fightful. See our Sabre Jr. story.

What to watch next

NJPW's remaining nightly previews, and whether the six-man pairings above hold. NJPW's page says the shows stream live in English on NJPW World. It does not give start times for either night.

Sources

• New Japan Pro-Wrestling, "World Tag League night 1 (November 23) Preview", Nov. 12, 2026 (night 1 matches, the Knockout Bros. history, the Obata debut). https://www.njpw1972.com/681235
• New Japan Pro-Wrestling, "World Tag League night 2 (November 24) Preview", Nov. 13, 2026 (night 2 matches, the Dangerous Tekkers and O-Khan lines, the night 3 main event). https://www.njpw1972.com/681772
• New Japan Pro-Wrestling, "Bound for Unbound (November 20) Preview", Nov. 13, 2026 (OSKAR vs. Archer). https://www.njpw1972.com/681234
• Fightful (Andrew Thompson), "Tomohiro Ishii Unable To Compete, Dangerous Tekkers Set For 2026 NJPW World Tag League", Nov. 6, 2026 (as relied on in our earlier story). https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/tomohiro-ishii-unable-to-compete-dangerous-tekkers-set-for-2026-njpw-world-tag-league/
• WrestlingNews.com, "NJPW Names 16 Teams for World Tag League, Starting Nov. 23", Nov. 6, 2026. https://wrestlingnews.com/story/njpw-names-16-teams-world-tag-league-2026/
• WrestlingNews.com, "OSKAR vs. Lance Archer Added to NJPW Bound for Unbound", Nov. 12, 2026. https://wrestlingnews.com/story/oskar-vs-lance-archer-added-to-njpw-bound-for-unbound/
• WrestlingNews.com, "Sabre Jr. Replaces Ishii, Reuniting Dangerous Tekkers With Taichi", Nov. 7, 2026. https://wrestlingnews.com/story/zack-sabre-jr-replaces-ishii-dangerous-tekkers-world-tag-league/
• WrestlingNews.com staff reporting: read both NJPW previews in full, built the match lists from them, and checked our own site for an earlier story on the two cards (our earlier stories name only the night 1 main event). We did not contact NJPW.

How we credit sources: Editorial standards.