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NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 1

Release Date:January 19, 2026

Running Time:172 min

Cast

Maki Taichiro Tomohiro Ishii Shota Umino Yuya Uemura Hartley Jackson Ryohei Oiwa Luke James Uggles Eatwell Hirooki Goto Nobuo Yoshihashi Oleg Igorevich Boltin Yoshinobu Kanemaru James McMath

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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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