New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced that the final match between Kazuchika Okada and Hiroshi Tanahashi will take place at NJPW ‘The New Beginning’ in Osaka on February 11.
The date will be one of Okada’s last matches in NJPW and follows the official end of his contract on January 31.
The match replaces a planned defense of the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Titles, which was moved to January 24 in Korakuen Hall. There, Okada will defend the titles with Tanahashi and Tomohiro Ishii against TMDK’s Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls, and Kosei Fujita.
Okada will also wrestle on February 23 and 24, although his opponents are yet to be announced.
You can check out the updated lineup for NJPW ‘The New Beginning’ in Osaka below:
Steel Cage Match:
United Empire (Will Ospreay, Jeff Cobb, HENARE, TJP & Francesco Akira) vs. BULLET CLUB War Dogs (David Finlay, Gabe Kidd, Alex Coughlin, Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney)
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships Match:
El Phantasmo & Hikuleo (c) vs. KENTA & Chase Owens
Bryan Danielson vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito vs. TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yuya Uemura, Taichi & SANADA
Tomoaki Honma, Master Wato, El Desperado & Shota Umino vs. Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita, SHO & EVIL
Bishamon vs. Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan
YOH & Toru Yano vs. Boltin Oleg & Ryusuke Taguchi
MLW SuperFight 2024 takes place on February 3, at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia.
Additionally, you can check out the updated lineup for MLW SuperFight 2024 below:
Kickoff Show
Satoshi Kojima and Shigeo Okumura vs. TBA
Tom Lawlor (with Mister Saint Laurent) vs. Matthew Justice
Main Card
Místico vs. Averno (with Salina de la Renta)
Yuji Nagata vs. Jacob Fatu
Davey Boy Smith Jr. (with Mister Saint Laurent) vs. 1 Called Manders
MLW World Championship:
Alex Kane (c) (with Mr. Thomas) vs. Satoshi Kojima (with Shigeo Okumura)
