Tanahashi thinks the end is near for his active in-ring career.
At the age of 46, Hiroshi Tanahashi has tallied up 20-plus years with New Japan Pro-Wrestling. He is an eight-time holder of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship among other titles he’s captured in the company.
On October 6th, a movie about the late Antonio Inoki was released and going into the release date, Tanahashi did media to promote it and chatted with Number Web. As the conversation rolled on, Tanahashi mentioned that he feels the end of his active career is in sight.
The end of my active career is in sight. So before the Coronavirus outbreak, I think I could have retired with peace of mind thinking, New Japan is fine now and I’ve done my best. New Japan Pro-Wrestling, which had a lot of excitement, has once again been forced to struggle due to factors other than themselves, such as the Coronavirus, so we want to make it exciting once again…
Tanahashi is scheduled to be in action on October 9th at NJPW Destruction in Ryogoku.
He is one-third of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada and Tomohiro Ishii will be defending their titles against Josh Alexander, IMPACT X Division Champion Chris Sabin and IMPACT World Champion Alex Shelley.
