Kazuchika Okada

Known for ActingBorn 1987-11-08 (age 38)Anjō, Aichi, Japan

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.Read more

Movies & web series

NJPW Power Struggle ~ Super Junior Tag League 2023

NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 19 (Final)

NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 17

NJPW Sakura Genesis 2017

NJPW Tag League Finals 2015

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 8

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14: Night 1

NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 7

NJPW Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall

NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 13

NJPW Strong Style Evolved UK - Night 2

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 11

AEW Double or Nothing 2026

NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 5

NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 3

AEW Double or Nothing 2025

AEW All In 2025: Texas

AEW Revolution 2026

AEW x NJPW x CMLL x Stardom Present Forbidden Door 2026

NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 1

NJPW Dominion 6.12 In Osaka-Jo Hall

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14: Night 2

NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 1

NJPW Royal Quest

NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 18

NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2019

NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2018

NJPW King of Pro Wrestling 2017

AEW x NJPW Presents Forbidden Door 2022

NJPW Battle in the Valley 2024

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 12

AEW Worlds End 2025

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15: Night 1

NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 6

AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door 2025

NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 11

NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 13

AEW Dynasty 2026

NJPW G1 Climax 29: Day 11

NJPW Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 9

NJPW Invasion Attack 2013

AEW Full Gear 2025

All In

AEW WrestleDream 2025

NJPW Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 13

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 20