The first night of G1 Climax 36 took place on July 11, 2026, at the NOW Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, marking the first time New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW)’s annual round-robin heavyweight tournament opened in the United States since 2019.
Konosuke Takeshita
Yota Tsuji
Hirooki Goto
Seiya Sanada
Shin Takagi
Lee Jae-kyung
Tomoyuki Oka
Yuto Nakashima
Oleg Igorevich Boltin
Ryohei Oiwa
Luke James Uggles Eatwell
Shota Umino
Yuya Uemura
Callum Newman
Aaron Henry
Aaron Phillip Wolf
Ren Narita
Oskar Münchow