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 event was headlined by Taichi & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura in an IWGP Tag Team Title #1 Contendership Match.
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
Sho Tanaka
Kosei Fujita
Callum Newman
Francesco Akira Begnini
Tomoyuki Oka
Lee Jae-kyung
Jacob Austin Criger
Keiji Takayama
Hiromu Takahashi
Shin Takagi
Taiji Ishimori
Yota Tsuji
Aaron Phillip Wolf
Kyosuke Mikami
Hirai Kawato
Toru Yano
Yohei Komatsu
Shigeki Sato
Tatsuya Hayama
Takaaki Watanabe
Ren Narita
Yujiro Takahashi
Zane Jay
Daiki Nagai
Masatora Yasuda
Tatsuya Matsumoto