11 July 2026 186 mins
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 since 2019 that New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) opened its annual round-robin heavyweight tournament in the United States, and was headlined by an A Block match between Konosuke Takeshita and Yota Tsuji.
Watch the official NJPW G1 Climax 36 - Day 1 2026 trailer in HD below.
Konosuke Takeshita as Konosuke Takeshita
Yota Tsuji as Yota Tsuji
Ryohei Oiwa as Ryohei Oiwa
Oleg Igorevich Boltin as Oleg Boltin
Yuya Uemura as Yuya Uemura
Callum Newman as Callum Newman
Hirooki Goto as Hirooki Goto
Seiya Sanada as SANADA
Luke James Uggles Eatwell as Zack Sabre Jr.
Shota Umino as Shota Umino
Tomoyuki Oka as Great-O-Khan
Yuto Nakashima as Yuto-Ice
Ren Narita as Ren Narita
Oskar Münchow as OSKAR
Shin Takagi as Shingo Takagi
Lee Che-gyong as Jake Lee
NJPW G1 Climax 2026 - Day 1 Trailer
Japan 11 July 2026
United States 11 July 2026
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10 June 2026
After a criminal network kidnaps Wang Wei's daughter and the corrupt police refuse to assist him, Wei sets out on his own to locate her.
27 May 2026
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
06 May 2026
The fan favorite champions—now joined by Johnny Cage himself—are pitted against one another in the ultimate, no-holds barred, gory battle to defeat the dark rule of Shao Kahn that threatens the very existence of the Earthrealm and its defenders.
17 July 2026
Convinced they are our secret saviors, rogue U.S. operatives abduct Mexican gang members and seed them across major American cities, unleashing criminal chaos, swaying voters by playing on nativist prejudices, and forcing law enforcement into a race to expose the plot as the escalating carnage threatens democracy itself.
16 July 2026
Now that the Queen of Hearts is nice and Cinderella is safe, things seem perfect for Red and Chloe… But little do they know that changing the past created a new villain — Maddox Hatter.
03 June 2026
Twenty-six years after outrunning a suspiciously familiar masked killer, the Core Four are back in the killer's crosshairs and no horror movie IP is safe.
24 June 2026
When an unexpected and ruthless adversary strikes too close to home, Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, reluctantly joins forces with an unlikely companion on an epic, interstellar journey of vengeance and justice.
15 July 2026
Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War.
03 July 2026
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
06 March 2026
Young Macy is abducted by a deranged, monstrous figure who wants to raise her as its child.
30 April 2026
George Hardy is a shepherd who reads detective novels to his beloved sheep every night, assuming they can't possibly understand.
19 June 2026
On 1949 October 1, the day of the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China, Xiao Dali enters the city and is reorganized as the director of the public security police station.
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