{"id":23581,"date":"2018-08-08T20:39:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T00:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=23581"},"modified":"2018-08-08T20:39:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T00:39:11","slug":"breaking-kazuchika-okada-to-wrestle-in-cmll-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/08\/08\/breaking-kazuchika-okada-to-wrestle-in-cmll-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Kazuchika Okada to Wrestle in CMLL Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best wrestlers in the world, 4x IWGP Heavyweight Champion <strong>Kazuchika Okada<\/strong> will wrestle in Mexico for <strong>Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre <\/strong>on August 18<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf8c \u00a1OKADA EN M\u00c9XICO! \ud83c\udf8c<br \/>Catalogado como uno de los mejores luchadores a nivel mundial, el japon\u00e9s Kazuchika Okada, se presentar\u00e1 el pr\u00f3ximo Viernes 17 de Agosto en la Arena M\u00e9xico. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m96XVYjJrv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/m96XVYjJrv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lucha Libre CMLL (@CMLL_OFICIAL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMLL_OFICIAL\/status\/1027313953259569157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The announcement was confirmed by CMLL wrestler <strong>Okamura<\/strong>, who said &#8220;more surprises were coming&#8221; for the number one promotion in Mexico.\u00a0The announcement was later confirmed by CMLL, who didn&#8217;t specified if Okada was wrestling in a tag team match or in a singles match.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CMLL INFORMA 8  DE AGOSTO DE 2018\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WyiNQ5RUoHU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This marks the first time that Kazuchika Okada will compete for CMLL. While many<strong> New Japan Pro Wrestling<\/strong> stars like <em>Los Ingobernables de Jap\u00f3n<\/em> leader <strong>Tetsuya Naito<\/strong> mastered their craft in CMLL in the past, Okada&#8217;s appearances in Mexico came by the hand of Ultimo Dragon&#8217;s <strong>Turyomon<\/strong>.\u00a0In Arena Mexico, this is Okada&#8217;s fourth appearance.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>A More Open CMLL<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23585\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23585\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/08\/tavencmll-e1533775088384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: CMLL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The news come in a time were CMLL has been making interesting decisions. Last week, the Mexican promotion brought to their Arena Mexico show the <strong>Ring of Honor<\/strong>\u00a0World Tag Team Champions <strong>The Briscoe<\/strong> to team with Rush. Moreover, <strong>ROH<\/strong> star <strong>Matt Taven<\/strong> wrestled <strong>Volador Jr.<\/strong> in a match were <strong>The Kingdom<\/strong> leader lost his priced NWA World Historic Welterweight championship. With the Okada announcement, it appears CMLL is finally taking full advantage of their inclusion in the IWGP Conception and their alliances with NJPW and ROH.<\/p>\n<p>The company surprised everybody <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/05\/20\/l-a-park-returns-to-cmll-and-challenges-rush-to-a-hair-vs-mask-match\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">when <strong>LA Park<\/strong> was brought back to start a feud with <em>Los Ingobernables<\/em> leader Rush.<\/a> Even more surprising was the debuts of indie wrestling favorites and <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/06\/09\/rey-fenix-debuts-in-arena-mexico-for-cmll-and-steals-the-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mexican supernovas <strong>Rey Fenix<\/strong><\/a> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/07\/01\/pentagon-jr-makes-his-suprise-debut-in-cmll\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pentagon Jr<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The once strict company now has wrestlers wrestling in <strong>AAA Worldwide&#8217;<\/strong>s taping on Thursdays and in CMLL in Arena Mexico on Fridays. Moreover, at one point having Pentagon Jr. breaking a tapings record, appearing on <strong>Major League Wrestling<\/strong> on BeIN Sports, in AAA Worldwide, CMLL Arena Mexico and in<strong> Impact Wrestling<\/strong> on Pop TV in one week.<\/p>\n<p>CMLL is approaching their <em>Aniversario<\/em> show and LA Park has given them very strong attendance since returning. The Kazuchika Okada move keeps building their hot run in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best wrestlers in the world, 4x IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada will wrestle in Mexico for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre on August 18.\u00a0 \ud83c\udf8c \u00a1OKADA EN M\u00c9XICO! \ud83c\udf8cCatalogado como uno de los mejores luchadores a nivel mundial, el japon\u00e9s Kazuchika Okada, se presentar\u00e1 el pr\u00f3ximo Viernes 17 de Agosto en la [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":23584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2,13,6],"tags":[678,733,676,226,501,2472,534,2012,535,859],"class_list":["post-23581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cmll","category-featured","category-international","category-north-america","tag-aaa","tag-aaa-lucha-libre","tag-cmll","tag-impact-wrestling","tag-kazuchika-okada","tag-la-park","tag-mexico","tag-mlw","tag-pentagon-jr","tag-rey-fenix"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}