NJPW G1 Climax 26 - Night 1 took place on July 18, 2016 at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Hokkaido. It was broadcast on TV Asahi.
Results[]
- Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- (c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.
- Jushin Thunder Liger, Katsuyori Shibata, Manabu Nakanishi & Tiger Mask defeated Captain New Japan, KUSHIDA, Ryusuke Taguchi & Tomoaki Honma (10:39)
- Katsuhiko Nakajima & Toru Yano defeated Juice Robinson & Satoshi Kojima (9:37)
- BULLET CLUB (Kenny Omega & Yujiro Takahashi) defeated CHAOS (Gedo & YOSHI-HASHI) (10:09)
- Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, EVIL & Tetsuya Naito) defeated David Finlay, Michael Elgin & Yuji Nagata (12:04)
- Hiroyoshi Tenzan [2] defeated Tomohiro Ishii [0] (14:08) in a G1 Climax 2016 Block A Match
- Togi Makabe [2] defeated Tama Tonga [0] (10:37) in a G1 Climax 2016 Block A Match
- Hirooki Goto [2] defeated Bad Luck Fale [0] (9:18) in a G1 Climax 2016 Block A Match
- SANADA [2] defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi [0] (19:30) in a G1 Climax 2016 Block A Match
- Naomichi Marufuji [2] defeated Kazuchika Okada [0] (19:07) in a G1 Climax 2016 Block A Match