AEW Unified Champion Kazuchika Okada Returns to NJPW, Challenges Hiroshi Tanahashi in Final Match
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AEW Unified Champion Kazuchika Okada Returns to NJPW, Challenges Hiroshi Tanahashi in Final Match

  • All Elite Wrestling
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Image via NJPW.
Image via NJPW.

AEW Unified Champion Kazuchika Okada shocked the professional wrestling world early Saturday morning when he returned to New Japan Pro Wrestling and confronted Hiroshi Tanahashi.


Okada appeared after Tanahashi was victorious in the main event of NJPW’s Road to Anjo, laying down a challenge to face Tanahashi in his retirement match on January 4 at NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 20.



Okada is a seven-time world champion in NJPW, while Tanahashi holds the record for most world title reigns in the promotion at eight. The rivalry between “The Rainmaker” and “The Ace” is one of the greatest in professional wrestling history, making Okada perhaps the most fitting final opponent for Tanahashi.

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