The free company market will quickly welcome in a brand new addition.
Final month, reviews indicated that the NJPW contract of former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada was set to run out on the finish of January. With this expiration fastly approaching, New Japan Professional-Wrestling has now confirmed that Okada shall be departing from the promotion upon the conclusion of his deal on January 31.
Within the wake of this announcement, NJPW has additionally offered Okada’s official assertion about his upcoming exit from NJPW. “I’ve nothing however gratitude for having been part of New Japan Professional-Wrestling since 2007, and for NJPW bringing me from a 19 yr outdated child off the airplane in Mexico to the Rainmaker I’m at this time,” Okada stated. “Thanks to one of the best of firms in NJPW, to one of the best of opponents that I’ve been in a position to face right here, and to one of the best of followers which have cheered and booed through the years. I promise to make it rain in each match I’ve left, so maintain watching.”
Regardless of his impending entry into the free company market, Okada continues to be scheduled to be current at a trio of NJPW exhibits subsequent month. After he completes his look at The New Starting occasion in Osaka on February 11, “The Rainmaker” will head to Sapporo as The New Starting sequence continues on February 23 and 24.
Okada’s most up-to-date NJPW match happened at Battle within the Valley on January 13, the place he defeated one other IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, Will Ospreay. The subsequent day, Okada made his strategy to Las Vegas for TNA Snake Eyes.
Supply: Wrestling Inc.