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NJPW G1 Climax 26 - Day 1
| Date: Mon, Jul 18th 2016 | Pay Per View: no |
| Venue: Hokkaido Prefectural Nakajima Sports Center Annex, Sapporo, Hokkaido | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 5,533 |
Matches for G1 Climax 26 - Day 1
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jushin Thunder Liger & Katsuyori Shibata & Manabu Nakanishi & Tiger Mask IV | def. (pin) | Captain New Japan & KUSHIDA & Ryusuke Taguchi & Tomoaki Honma | 10:39 | 8-person tag | ***¼ | |
| 2 | Katsuhiko Nakajima & Toru Yano | def. (pin) | Juice Robinson & Satoshi Kojima | 09:37 | **½ | ||
| 3 | Kenny Omega & Yujiro Takahashi | def. (pin) | Gedo & YOSHI-HASHI | 10:09 | ** | ||
| 4 | BUSHI & EVIL & Tetsuya Naito | def. (pin) | David Finlay & Michael Elgin & Yuji Nagata | 12:04 | 6-person tag | *** | |
| 5 | Hiroyoshi Tenzan | def. (pin) | Tomohiro Ishii | 14:08 | **** | ||
| 6 | Togi Makabe | def. (pin) | Tama Tonga | 10:37 | *** | ||
| 7 | Hirooki Goto | def. (pin) | Bad Luck Fale | 09:18 | **¾ | ||
| 8 | SANADA | def. (pin) | Hiroshi Tanahashi | 19:30 | ****¼ | ||
| 9 | Naomichi Marufuji | def. (pin) | Kazuchika Okada | 19:07 | ****½ | ||