NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 1 (2026)
The first night of Road to The New Beginning 2026 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on January 19, 2026, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, marking the opening of the 2026 Young Lion Cup and featuring two first-round matches of the tournament. The show was headlined by Taichi & Tomohiro Ishii vs. RoughStorm (Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura) in an IWGP Tag Team Title #1 Contendership Match.
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Maki Taichiro as Taichi |
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Tomohiro Ishii as Tomohiro Ishii |
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Shota Umino as Shota Umino |
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Yuya Uemura as Yuya Uemura |
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Hartley Jackson as Hartley Jackson |
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Ryohei Oiwa as Ryohei Oiwa |
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Luke James Uggles Eatwell as Zack Sabre Jr. |
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Hirooki Goto as Hirooki Goto |
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Nobuo Yoshihashi as YOSHI-HASHI |
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Oleg Igorevich Boltin as Oleg Boltin |
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Yoshinobu Kanemaru as Yoshinobu Kanemaru |
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James McMath as Robbie Eagles |
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Sho Tanaka as SHO |
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Kosei Fujita as Kosei Fujita |
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Callum Newman as Callum Newman |
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Francesco Akira Begnini as Francesco Akira |
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Tomoyuki Oka as Great-O-Khan |
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Lee Jae-kyung as Jake Lee |
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Jacob Austin Criger as Jakob Austin Young |
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Keiji Takayama as Gedo |
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Hiromu Takahashi as Hiromu Takahashi |
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Shin Takagi as Shingo Takagi |
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Taiji Ishimori as Taiji Ishimori |
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Yota Tsuji as Yota Tsuji |
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Aaron Phillip Wolf as Aaron Wolf |
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Kyosuke Mikami as El Desperado |
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Hirai Kawato as Master Wato |
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Toru Yano as Toru Yano |
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Yōhei Komatsu as YOH |
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Shigeki Sato as Dick Togo |
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Tatsuya Hayama as DOUKI |
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Takaaki Watanabe as EVIL |
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Ren Narita as Ren Narita |
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Yujiro Takahashi as Yujiro Takahashi |
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Zane Jacobson as Zane Jay |
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Daiki Nagai as Daiki Nagai |
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Masatora Yasuda as Masatora Yasuda |
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Tatsuya Matsumoto as Tatsuya Matsumoto |
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Chris Charlton as Chris Charlton - English Commentary |
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Jacob Austin Criger as Jakob Austin Young - English Commentary |
