# Andrade El Idolo NEW CHAMP! United Empire Capture All The Gold! | NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2026 Review Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/tru-heel-heat-469587/andrade-el-idolo-new-champ-united-empire-capture-all-the-gold-njpw-wrestling-dontaku-2026-review Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/tru-heel-heat-469587/andrade-el-idolo-new-champ-united-empire-capture-all-the-gold-njpw-wrestling-dontaku-2026-review.md Podcast: [Tru Heel Heat](https://stenobird.com/podcast/tru-heel-heat-469587) Published: 2026-05-06T03:00:59+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/truheelheat/episodes/Andrade-El-Idolo-NEW-CHAMP--United-Empire-Capture-All-The-Gold---NJPW-Wrestling-Dontaku-2026-Review-e3iv140 Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/1effbe00/podcast/play/119554624/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-6%2F574c06b0-3bc8-70c7-019d-97089ea43654.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tru-heel-heat-469587/episodes/andrade-el-idolo-new-champ-united-empire-capture-all-the-gold-njpw-wrestling-dontaku-2026-review Duration seconds: 10145 ## Resource Join SP3, J-News & Sonal for our NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2026 Review breaking down the two-night event ft. Callum Newman vs Shingo Takagi for the IWGP Heavyweight Title & Yota Tsuji vs Andrade El Idolo for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship. TIME STAMPS: 0:00 Intro 3:18 SP3, J-News & Sonal welcome you to the show 8:16 Thoughts on big tag team match for Ignition To Dominion main event 10:46 JC Mateo aka Jeff Cobb & Tonga Loa get released from WWE / will they return from NJPW? 21:37 Breaking down the cautionary tale of Jeff Cobb leaving New Japan for WWE 31:16 J-News w/some advice for those who sign with WWE / better success rate starting on NXT if you are from New Japan Show Recap 41:01 Overall thoughts on 2 night Wrestling Dontaku events Day 1 43:24 Hontai vs Taguchi Japan 6-Man Tag 48:12 Knockout Brothers vs Tomoaki Honma & Masatora Yasuda 50:50 Hontai & Mistico vs TMDK 8-Man Tag / Mistico & Desperado challenge Ichiban Sweet Boys 57:20 United Empire vs Goto Revolutionary Army 6-Man Tag 1:03:22 Konosuke Takeshita & Shota Umino vs House of Torture 1:09:14 Unbound Co. vs United Empire 10-Man Tag 1:17:09 Aaron Wolf vs Don Fale 1:20:59 Ren Narita vs Boltin Oleg (NEVER Openweight Championship) / challenge from Aaron Wolf for Narita 1:30:36 Yota Tsuji vs Andrade El Idolo (IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship) / Drilla Moloney & Shota Umino challenge Andrade 1:41:10 Andrade & Tsuji both Top 5 wrestlers of 2026 / thoughts on what's next for Global Title / when we get round 3 of Andrade/Tsuji? 1:45:18 Ospreay wanting to be the bridge from AEW to NJPW / short title runs in 1st reign 1:48:38 Ratings on Day 1 Day 2 1:50:40 Masatora Yasuda vs Taisei Nakahara (Pre-Show) 1:52:18 Konosuke Takeshita vs Chase Owens (NJPW World TV Championship… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tru-heel-heat-469587/episodes/andrade-el-idolo-new-champ-united-empire-capture-all-the-gold-njpw-wrestling-dontaku-2026-review/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/tru-heel-heat-469587/andrade-el-idolo-new-champ-united-empire-capture-all-the-gold-njpw-wrestling-dontaku-2026-review.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.