So it's around 4 hours after the main event of Wrestle Kingdom as I'm beginning to write this, Hiroshi Tanahashi has retired and it truly feels like the end of an era. It's weird to think about it really, for myself and many others, professional wrestling has not existed without the ace, there hasn't been a world where Hiroshi Tanahashi is not actively competing as New Japan's Ace. To me personally, Tana's connection to New Japan is second only to Inoki, when I think of New Japan, Hiroshi Tanahashi is who I think of and whilst he will still be there as President, he isn't there as a wrestler. As soon as Tanahashi announced his retirement tour speculation began on who his final opponent would be and really there were only ever three names ever discussed: Katsuyori Shibata, Shinsuke Nakamura and the man who indeed turned out to be Tanahashi's final dance partner, Kazuchika Okada. All three made sense, had perfect reason to be so, in the case of...