10 NJPW Matches To Watch Before AEW Forbidden Door

What can be said about this match that hasn't been said already?

This match at Wrestle Kingdom 11 is the first of the four match series in this epic rivalry. Kenny Omega earned a shot at Kazuchika Okada and his IWGP Heavyweight Championship by winning the G1 Climax in 2016 in a thrilling final against Hirooki Goto, becoming the first non-Japanese wrestler to win the tournament.

The match itself builds from a solid Wrestle Kingdom main event into something for the history books. Six stars from Dave Meltzer, praise from Mick Foley and Stone Cold Steve Austin, the longest main event in Tokyo Dome history (until Kota Ibushi and Jay White went two minutes longer in 2021), and a match that broke wrestling Twitter. You may prefer the 60-minute time-limit draw at Dominion 2017, the G1 Climax 27 battle, or the two-out-of-three falls match at Dominion 2018. But this is the beginning of possibly the greatest in-ring rivalry in modern wrestling history.

Watch all four matches if you can. But if you pick just one, then it has to be this.