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Kazuchika Okada
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Kazuchika Okada is a Japanese professional wrestler who signed to All Elite Wrestling in March 2024, where he won the 2024 AEW Continental Classic tournament to become AEW Contine…
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Kazuchika Okada is a Japanese professional wrestler who signed to All Elite Wrestling in March 2024, where he won the 2024 AEW Continental Classic tournament to become AEW Continental Champion, then in 2025 defeated Kenny Omega for the AEW International Championship, unifying the two titles and becoming the first and only AEW Unified Champion. Trained by Último Dragón at the Toryumon professional wrestling school, Okada made his professional debut on August 29, 2004, in Toryumon Mexico before joining New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in 2007 as a Young Lion and training in the NJPW Dojo. He was sent on excursion in February 2010 to the American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Across his 18-year run in NJPW from 2007 to 2024, he became a five-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion, including a record-setting fourth reign of 720 days, a two-time IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, a one-time NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champion with Tomohiro Ishii and Hiroshi Tanahashi as members of the now-defunct CHAOS, a two-time New Japan Cup winner in 2013 and 2019, and a four-time G1 Climax winner in 2012, 2014, 2021, and 2022. Okada is commonly cited by fans, wrestling journalists, and fellow wrestlers as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, recognized for his elite match quality, sustained excellence at the main-event level, ability to elevate opponents, and central role in driving modern Japanese wrestling’s global resurgence. He was ranked No. 1 in the Pro Wrestling Illustrated PWI 500 in 2017, earned multiple Feud and Match of the Year honors for his rivalries with Kenny Omega and Hiroshi Tanahashi, won Wrestling Observer Newsletter Wrestler of the Year and Most Outstanding Wrestler in 2017, was named Japan MVP in 2019 and 2022, inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 2021, and also collected five Tokyo Sports MVP Awards plus nine Best Bout Awards against opponents including Tanahashi, Shinsuke Nakamura, Genichiro Tenryu, Naomichi Marufuji, Omega, SANADA, Tetsuya Naito, and Will Ospreay, with his body of work often held up as the benchmark for championship-level performance.
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2026
AEW All Out 2026
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2026
AEW All In 2026: London
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2026
AEW x NJPW x CMLL x Stardom Present Forbidden Door 2026
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2026
AEW Double or Nothing 2026
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2026
AEW Dynasty
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2026
AEW Revolution 2026
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2026
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 20
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2025
AEW Worlds End 2025
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2025
AEW Full Gear 2025
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2025
AEW Full Gear 2025: Saturday Tailgate Brawl
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2025
NJPW New Japan Road in Anjo 2025
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2025
AEW WrestleDream 2025
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2025
AEW All Out 2025
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2025
AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door 2025
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2025
AEW All In 2025: Texas
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2025
AEW Double or Nothing 2025
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2025
AEW Revolution 2025
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2025
AEW: Grand Slam Australia
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2024
AEW Worlds End 2024
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2024
AEW All Out 2024
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2024
AEW All In 2024: London
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2024
AEW x NJPW Present Forbidden Door 2024
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2024
AEW Double or Nothing 2024
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2024
AEW Dynasty 2024
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2024
NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2024 - Day 2
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2024
NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2024 - Day 1
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2024
NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2024
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2024
NJPW The New Beginning in Nagoya
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2024
NJPW Battle in the Valley 2024
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2024
NJPW New Year Dash!! 2024
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2024
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18
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2023
NJPW Power Struggle ~ Super Junior Tag League 2023
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2023
NJPW Destruction In Ryogoku 2023
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2023
NJPW Destruction In Kobe 2023
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2023
NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 19 (Final)
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2023
NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 18
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NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 17
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NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 14
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NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 13
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NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 11
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