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.
as Taichi
as Tomohiro Ishii
as Shota Umino
as Yuya Uemura
as Hartley Jackson
as Ryohei Oiwa
as Zack Sabre Jr.
as Hirooki Goto
as YOSHI-HASHI
as Oleg Boltin
as Yoshinobu Kanemaru
as Robbie Eagles
as SHO
as Kosei Fujita
as Callum Newman
as Francesco Akira
as Great-O-Khan
as Jake Lee
as Jakob Austin Young
as Gedo
as Hiromu Takahashi
as Shingo Takagi
as Taiji Ishimori
as Yota Tsuji
as Aaron Wolf
as El Desperado
as Master Wato
as Toru Yano
as YOH
as Dick Togo
as DOUKI
as EVIL
as Ren Narita
as Yujiro Takahashi
as Zane Jay
as Daiki Nagai
as Masatora Yasuda
as Tatsuya Matsumoto
as Chris Charlton - English Commentary
as Jakob Austin Young - English Commentary
