NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 20 Stats & Info — Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada — Hiroshi Tanahashi Retirement Match

by | Jan 3, 2026 | Wrestle Kingdom 20

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Hiroshi Tanahashi Retirement Match
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada

2025 Year To Date — NJPW & AEW Singles Matches

  • In 2024, Hiroshi Tanahashi wrestled seven NJPW singles matches. In 2025, he competed in 39 NJPW singles matches—a career high outside of his Young Lion year in 2000, when he wrestled 65. His previous high was 37 singles matches in 2004.
  • Kazuchika Okada’s 22 singles matches in 2025 were his most since 2013, when he wrestled 24. Since returning from excursion in 2012, Okada has been remarkably consistent, competing in between 18 and 24 singles matches in every calendar year.
  • Only Zack Sabre Jr. spent more time wrestling in NJPW singles matches in 2025 than Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 8 hours, 2 minutes, and 37 seconds.

2025 Year To Date — NJPW & AEW Individual Overall

  • In 2025, Hiroshi Tanahashi matched the career high he set in 2015 with 148 total matches wrestled, including an NJPW-leading 141 matches contested in his home promotion.
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi was on the winning side of more NJPW matches than any other wrestler in 2025.
  • In 2025, Kazuchika Okada wrestled a career-low 33 total matches. He has matched Hiroshi Tanahashi’s retirement-year total of 148 matches only once in his career, in 2016.

All Time — All Singles Matches — In Tokyo Dome

  • Kazuchika Okada enters Wrestle Kingdom 20 with a seven-match winning streak in Tokyo Dome singles matches. With a win over Hiroshi Tanahashi, he would match Shinya Hashimoto’s record streak of eight consecutive Tokyo Dome singles victories, set between 1992 and 1997.

All Time — NJPW Singles Matches — In Tokyo Dome — Main Events

  • No wrestler has headlined the Tokyo Dome more times than Hiroshi Tanahashi, who has made eleven main event appearances.
  • Kazuchika Okada and Hiroshi Tanahashi enter Wrestle Kingdom 20 tied for the most Tokyo Dome main event victories of all time, with seven each.

All Time — All Matches — In Tokyo Dome

  • No wrestler has spent more time competing in the Tokyo Dome than Hiroshi Tanahashi. At 11 hours and 37 minutes, he leads the second-most, Masahiro Chono, by more than two hours.
  • Only Jushin Thunder Liger, Yuji Nagata, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, and Masahiro Chono have wrestled in more Tokyo Dome matches than Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 35.

Head To Head History – Singles Matches

  • Kazuchika Okada leads the all-time singles series with Hiroshi Tanahashi, 9–5–3, and enters Wrestle Kingdom 20 on a four-match winning streak against the retiring Ace.
  • At the Tokyo Dome, Hiroshi Tanahashi leads the all-time singles series with Kazuchika Okada, 2–1.
  • This will be the 16th time Kazuchika Okada and Hiroshi Tanahashi have met in a main event. Since 2012, including Wrestle Kingdom 20, more than 208,000 fans will have purchased tickets to see Tanahashi and Okada headline an event.

All Time — NJPW Singles Matches

  • Kazuchika Okada last lost an NJPW singles match in the 2023 G1 Climax Final, when he was defeated by Tetsuya Naito.
  • Kazuchika Okada’s most recent NJPW singles match took place on February 11, 2024, when he defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi in Osaka.
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi wil lend his career with the eighteenth-most NJPW singles wins of all-time.
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 353 singles wins since the beginning of this millenium are, by far, the most in NJPW with over 100 more singles wins than his closest peer, Hirooki Goto at 241.
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 151 hours, 36 minutes, and 55 seconds of total NJPW singles match time is the third longest of all-time, only behind Tatsumi Fujinami and Seiji Sakaguchi.
  • Including non-singles matches, Hiroshi Tanahashi has spent over 679 hours — Over 28 days wrestling in NJPW matches. That is second only to Jushin Thunder Liger’s astounding 745 hours.