NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 1
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.
2026-01-19
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Cast
Maki Taichiro as Taichi
Tomohiro Ishii as Tomohiro Ishii
Shota Umino as Shota Umino
Yuya Uemura as Yuya Uemura
Hartley Jackson as Hartley Jackson
Ryohei Oiwa as Ryohei Oiwa
Luke James Uggles Eatwell as Zack Sabre Jr.
Hirooki Goto as Hirooki Goto
Nobuo Yoshihashi as YOSHI-HASHI
Oleg Igorevich Boltin as Oleg Boltin
Yoshinobu Kanemaru as Yoshinobu Kanemaru
James McMath as Robbie Eagles
Sho Tanaka as SHO
Kosei Fujita as Kosei Fujita
Callum Newman as Callum Newman
Francesco Akira Begnini as Francesco Akira
Tomoyuki Oka as Great-O-Khan
Lee Jae-kyung as Jake Lee
Jacob Austin Criger as Jakob Austin Young
Keiji Takayama as Gedo
Hiromu Takahashi as Hiromu Takahashi
Shin Takagi as Shingo Takagi
Taiji Ishimori as Taiji Ishimori
Yota Tsuji as Yota Tsuji
Aaron Phillip Wolf as Aaron Wolf
Kyosuke Mikami as El Desperado
Hirai Kawato as Master Wato
Toru Yano as Toru Yano
Yōhei Komatsu as YOH
Shigeki Sato as Dick Togo
Tatsuya Hayama as DOUKI
Takaaki Watanabe as EVIL
Ren Narita as Ren Narita
Yujiro Takahashi as Yujiro Takahashi
Zane Jacobson as Zane Jay
Daiki Nagai as Daiki Nagai
Masatora Yasuda as Masatora Yasuda
Tatsuya Matsumoto as Tatsuya Matsumoto
Chris Charlton as Chris Charlton - English Commentary
Jacob Austin Criger as Jakob Austin Young - English Commentary