Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling NOAH announced on Sunday morning that WWE SmackDown Superstar Shinsuke Nakamura is squaring off against Great Muta.
Nakamura will face The Great Muta in singles action at the promotion’s The New Year 2023 event on January 1 at Budokan Hall Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The show will stream live on the Japanese TV website ABEMA.
Great Muta (Keiji Mutoh) is on a retirement tour which ends on February 21, 2023 at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. Muta’s most recent appearance was at a NJPW Battle Autumn tour event, costing The Great-O-Khan the NJPW World Television Championship Match.
Muta is set to have his final match in NJPW on Sunday, November 20, 2022 at the NJPW x Stardom X-Over event, where he will team with Kazuchika Okada and Toru Yano to face off against Khan, Jeff Cobb, and Aaron Henare.
Mutoh’s final match as the Great Muta will take place on Sunday, January 22, 2023 at The Great Muta Final Bye-Bye event in Yokohama, Japan. It was previously announced he will team up with current AEW star Sting against opponents to be named in the near future.