AXS TV to air block of matches from Kazuchika Okada’s title reign

AXS TV is celebrating Kazuchika Okada’s ongoing reign with the IWGP Heavyweight Championship by looking back at all of its matches.

Starting tomorrow, AXS will be airing all of the matches from Okada’s reign on consecutive weekdays. The first 12 matches will be shown at 5 a.m. Eastern time, leading up to Okada’s record-breaking defense against Hiroshi Tanahashi from night two of Wrestling Dontaku 2018 premiering on the station at 8 p.m. Eastern on June 15th.

Okada broke Tanahashi’s record of 11 straight title defenses when he retained the championship at Dontaku. Okada’s current reign, which is now over 700 days, is the longest in the history of the title.

This is Okada’s fourth time holding the belt.

Okada’s next defense will take place before AXS’ programming block ends. He’ll be facing Kenny Omega in a two-out-of-three falls, no time limit match in the main event of Dominion on June 9th.

Here’s AXS’ schedule for the title matches:

• May 30th – Okada vs. Naito (Dominion, June 19th, 2016)
• May 31st – Okada vs. Naomichi Marufuji (King of Pro Wrestling, October 10th, 2016)
• June 1st — Okada vs. Omega (Wrestle Kingdom 11, January 4th, 2017)
• June 4th — Okada vs. Minoru Suzuki (New Beginning in Sapporo, February 5th, 2017)
• June 5th — Okada vs. Katsuyori Shibata (Sakura Genesis, April 9th, 2017)
• June 6th — Okada vs. Bad Luck Fale (Wrestling Dontaku, May 3rd, 2017)
• June 7th — Okada vs. Omega (Dominion, June 11th, 2017)
• June 8th — Okada vs. Cody Rhodes (G1 Special in USA, July 1st, 2017)
• June 11th — Okada vs. EVIL (King of Pro Wrestling, October 9th, 2017)
• June 12th — Okada vs. Naito (Wrestle Kingdom 12, January 4th, 2018)
• June 13th — Okada vs. SANADA (New Beginning in Osaka. February 10th, 2018)
• June 14th — Okada vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (Sakura Genesis, April 1st, 2018)
• June 15th — Okada vs. Tanahashi (Wrestling Dontaku, May 4th, 2018)