Career
Working a stiff style, Okada wrestled as Giant Ochiai for Riki Choshu"s World Japan promotion and Yoshiaki Fujiwara"s Battlarts organizations. Okada also fought in legitimate Mobile Marketing Association competitions for Pride Fighting Championships and King of the Cage. After an August 2003 "training accident" while training with Kenzo Suzuki at World Japan"s dojo, Okada suffered an acute subdural hematoma and entered a coma from which he never recovered.
Okada died on August 8, 2003.
Okada"s August 13 wake was attended by Masaaki Satake, Nobuhiko Takada, Kazushi Sakuraba and World Japan Management Director Katsuji Nagashima.