[1][3] Okada made his official professional wrestling debut for AJPW on January 9, 2017, at the Yokohama Radiant Hall, in a losing effort against Yuma Aoyagi.

He was initially turned down, but after the penultimate match of the February 3 event in the Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium, he officially joined Evolution as a reward for having stood up to Kazuyuki Fujita, Kendo Kashin and Nosawa Rongai.

1 event in Korakuen Hall, during which he teamed with Makoto Oishi and Mizuki Watase to defeat Damnation (Tetsuya Endo, Daisuke Sasaki and Nobuhiro Shimatani).

[23] On March 14, he wrestled Yuki Ueno for the DDT Universal Championship in the main event of Day Dream Believer, but failed to win the title.

[28] On December 7, DDT announced that, at the request of Tetsuya Endo and Jun Akiyama, Kenta Kobashi had endorsed the reformation of the Burning stable (originally formed in 1998, in AJPW) for its fourth incarnation.

On May 1, at Mega Max Bump 2022 in Yokohama, Okada and Akiyama unsuccessfully challenged the Calamari Drunken Kings (Chris Brookes and Masahiro Takanashi) for the KO-D Tag Team Championship.

[31] On December 29, at Never Mind 2022, he won the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship with Tetsuya Endo and Kotaro Suzuki by defeating Naruki Doi, Toru Owashi and Kazuki Hirata.

[32] On January 29, 2023, at Sweet Dreams!, Okada, Endo and Suzuki retained their title against Pheromones (Danshoku "Dandy" Dino, Koju "Shining Ball" Takeda and Yuki "Sexy" Iino).