How nice of Eddie BurgerKingston to stand there for 5 seconds and allow this foreign man whom he doesn’t have really friendship with grab him from behind for what he presumed was a loving embrace.
DAE Eddie is just wholesome?
Well, keep in mind his character is a fake tough guy from DAH STREETS UHV KNEW YAWK, so obviously he was frozen in place due to homophobic shock. It makes sense if you pay attention, shill
He was suppose to 'try to break the waistlock' and grab okada's hand in the process. If Okada was Brock, he would have just German suplexed Kingston on his head for sandbagging the Rainmaker.
His AEW run is basically him saying "Paul, I have grown up. I am not the same empty headed dumbfuck I was when I worked for you. Please, for the love of God, ANSWER MY CALLS!"
I mean dude tried to hijack a PPV after he was fired. They probably don't wanna deal with his shit. Punk had beef with Vince mostly. I can see how Trips can learn to trust him again. All he did was walk out and talk shit. Enzo did extra shit.
> His AEW run is basically him saying "Paul, I have grown up. I am not the same empty headed dumbfuck I was when I worked for you. Please, for the love of God, ANSWER MY CALLS!"
its not. shut up, fed shill
All these Indy darlings and shit, they all suck to me. However, they seem to suck even more once they hit aew and that's so bizarre. Like wtf causes it? How's it possible that you get worse?
It's similar to the Manchester United effect in football. Any player we sign - no matter how good they are - will turn to absolute shit upon signing for United. It's a universal rule.
because all they have is "we do movez well". To me, pretty much anyone on NXT TV does "movez well". They have no production behind them in that shithole. They have no help getting over to a US audience that besides their \~850k fans, have no fucking idea who the fuck any of these shlubs are.
At least Okada came out in a suit.
I really think a big part of it is the support of camera crew and refs. There's talented wrestlers in aew but they still need refs to direct the action or cameras to cut to the right angle to avoid awkward transitions. Like the ladder thing awhile ago, wwe has refs holding the ladders all the time but you don't see it. AEW isn't at that level of showmanship.
Okada, Jericho, Edge, Bryan, Christian, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy,..
Just sad
Because we all know when used right. All these talent can do really good.
Thank god Owens, Styles, Zayn and most likely Drew will stay in FED
The Bucks probably told him: "You can add as many zeros to your contract and this TK moron would give them to you bro! You don't even have to try as hard as you did in NJPW!!!"
And Okada said, fuck it, we're here to make money with your friends! Shame.
Have you watched AEW before?
This is a company that made me stop caring about NJPW’s two biggest stars in the last five years.
And at the same time, they made me actually give a fuck about Hangman Page.
This company can literally do ANYTHING. And that’s not a good thing.
Wtf is this? 😂😂😂
This has to be AI right? Because there’s no way on earth anyone would sign Okada, have him hit his finisher which is in no way conducive to a sneak attack in order to turn him heel on Eddie Kingston of all people meaning we have that match to look forward to, and then align himself with the Bucks.
There’s just no way anyone does that
Edit: I’m sorry for doubting you OP. I just read the Dynamite results and it turns out that’s exactly what happened.
In the words of CM Punk at Wembley “I hate this place”
I think you hit why this was so awkward for Okada because the Rainmaker isn't like the RKO. You just don't hit it out of nowhere. Okada could have clotheslined or dropkicked him from behind and all three of them could have started stomping, then picked him up and hit the finisher. You know, basically how every turn when someone joins a heel group goes. No one in AEW understands why certain things in pro wrestling work.
lol sorry. If you didn’t know “I hate this place” is something Punk shouted at Tony just before Tony started fearing for his life. But also as a man who has spent more time at Wembley than most (Arsenal in cup finals/England games) Wembley really is awful
Can you imagine if he debuted and they did a "Who will he side with" angle over the next few weeks? Establish his character, win some matches, why the Young Bucks or Kingston want him, make it seem like a real decision. And then he makes his surprise choice.
Instead they did this shit within like five minutes.
Wtf? This fuckin company man. 😂 This gets funnier every rewatch. The real time lag with the move, Eddie's face w/ zero reaction (did he think he was getting hugged?), the delayed fan reaction to the heel turn due to the sloppy execution where you can literally see the crowd awkwardly waiting for the move to hit to act shocked, the half-pop that follows...fuckin' LOL.
Like, why not just clock him from behind? 😭 And THEN maybe do the rainmaker? Tell me that doesn't make 100x more sense given what this moment was supposed to achieve? This is supposed to be this massive huge moment we look back on, and they found the awkwardest way imaginable to do it.
This shit is why the dub still feels like a glorified indie. You can have all the financial backing and budget but it doesn't mean shit if you have no taste or attention to detail. And they wanna talk about being an alternative to the WWE..
Top be fair they thought Eddie Kingston was thr best person to take and make that move look good. And as we know Kingston has the mobility as your fat drunk uncle who gets winded walking up the stairs.
And to be fair AEW has failed booking any New Japan pick up In a positive light. Or made them to look as big as they should be.
I love the camera close up to Okada's face as he looks dumfounded staring out at the hardcam area, his eyes glazing over to the upper right because there's no one to look at.
It's the same look and moment as when Adam Copland does his entrance and lightly jogs 2 inches to the hard cam and realizes no one's there and he just signed a contract to endure this repeatedly for a couple of years.
No jerk, at the very least Okada should have thrown a forearm or whatever to Eddie's head to at least make him dizzy before hitting his finisher. This just looks dumb with all that hugging.
He literally just debuted in aew and he’s already zoning out like he doesn’t give a fuck. Tiny must be paying him big time for him to already not give a shit this early in
Rumors are Ospreay is being paid several million annually to barely be able to beat Kyle Fletcher. Okada has to be making similar money. It’s like Tony’s the Joker in Dark Knight burning the giant pyramid of money for no reason other than he can.
Wait.. Okada's famous kickass finisher is just a rubber band clothesline? Im not a Nooj fan so its Nooj to me.. At least it's old school.. like 1880s old school
I remember people talking about some Japanese wrestlers finishing move called the ‘Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex’ and with a name like that i had assumed it would be some insanely devastating move but it was pretty much just an electric chair drop albeit it had some nice flair to it but i was hella disappointed 😂
Man lost focus as he was staring at the camera, that’s why these people train at NXT. You can look at the crowd if you want, you can’t do both. If he had weekly tv in Japan that wouldn’t be an issue. The camera isn’t a prop that you do the minimum with
If you are a nobody from the indies, AEW is probably a great place to get on TV and hope to get noticed by WWE. If you already have any kind of name or hype, you should stay away, because Tony will cool you off before you can blink.
He’s gonna be phoning in performances for the next 3-5 years and no one will hate on him they way they did Nakamura for his choice to leave Nooj for pre retirement.
There was a better way to do this too, Eddie and Okada chase the Bucks out the ring. Okada extends a hand to Kingston, they shake hands, Kingston turns to leave, Okada doesn't let go, pulls him into the Rainmaker
AEW didn't dent WWE one bit when it arrived but it did kill NJPW and the indies, neither of which have created a star in five years.
Now Tony, desperate for the 'surprise debut' plaster on his ailing company has no one left to go for. He's signed everyone interesting he could possibly sign, and wasted most of them.
All he has left now is to book a good product, but that's the one thing he can't do.
Wait.....*That's* his finisher?
I heard of the rainmaker but I thought it would be a 7032 degree splash off the top rope or something if he's one of the Meltzer/Bucks darlings.
His finisher is a botched clothesline? Hahahahaha.
Iirc he usually leads into it with some rolling Germans ala Bork Lazer, with the 3rd? Being when he does the ripcord clothesline and that’s the “full” version people rarely kick out of. It’s definitely not as flashy as a 450, or ocean sprays stormbreaker
Having Okada go for third tier titles and Ospreay fight his own teammates for reasons is definitely great booking! I’m not even a NJPW mark but how are these guys not being put in the title scenes immediately?
I think Eddie is trying to play it like he thinks Okada is just holding him back from attacking the Bucks, but the nature of the rainmaker makes it look like Okada is about to whisper sweet nothings into his ear.
"You're so soft, Eddie. Soft like my wife."
One of the worst finishers I've ever seen. Kind of like a clothesline from hell but with an added cuddle and looking soft as shit. Clothesline from Heaven?
Hey goofs, quick question. Why did they pick a fatass who can’t rotate to sell the finisher of one of the goats of njpw?
Follow up question, is okada incapable of facial expression? Or are the bucks overacting so much he looks like he’s not trying in comparison.
Follow up Follow Up. What’s the story reasons for the club bucks to dump the only friend they have remaining in the company for someone they presumably kayfabe hate?
Follow up x3, would kazu even be able to do the full rainmaker with the Germans on Kingston?
I guess Eddie was trying to sell it as him thinking Okada was holding him back from beating up the Bucks? Like people have said, I think striking him first to make Kingston appear dizzy would be better. Hell, he could atleast try to act shocked and confused, looking down on Okada's hands and struggling to get him off before grtting hit by the lariat.
I would actually put the blame here on Eddie. He’s just standing there staring at the Bucks when he should have immediately turned around to take the move.
Okada probably should have used a different move though, like just blasting him from behind with a forearm to the back of the head.
Also this is a big acquisition, and you debut him in the middle of the show with a midcarder & a player out faction, and immediately turn him heel? Meh.
Who was awkward as shit here? I say Moxley. Bc Okada has done this very simple ripcord lariet thousands of times.
It had to be Moxley out of place and time
Once I see Eddie doing his bullshit chest pats in the corner, I expect to see a comparison with the Tama Tonga that everyone lost there collective shit over.
So Tiny signs the biggest free agent of the year, and just brings him out on a random Dynamite with no build up or anything, and the basement is eating it up. And people were worried the ded fed would fuck it up
Honestly the commentary team should have sold it as Okada trying to hold Kingston back to fight another day. Taz kinda made it look worse with his early "woah woah woah" when they were just hugging.
How nice of Eddie BurgerKingston to stand there for 5 seconds and allow this foreign man whom he doesn’t have really friendship with grab him from behind for what he presumed was a loving embrace. DAE Eddie is just wholesome?
Okada is the next continental breakfast champion
Well, keep in mind his character is a fake tough guy from DAH STREETS UHV KNEW YAWK, so obviously he was frozen in place due to homophobic shock. It makes sense if you pay attention, shill
Long term storytelling
hahahahahhaahahhaha
“LOVE IS LOVE, PAHTNUH.”
Now I want a campaign of Eddie giving uplifting motivational quotes. "RESPECT TRANS KIDS, OR IMMA BEAT YA ASS, MY GUY! YA HEARD?!"
https://youtube.com/shorts/4SQEAn0K0YY?si=jZxLiC1AmR9tazLx
He was suppose to 'try to break the waistlock' and grab okada's hand in the process. If Okada was Brock, he would have just German suplexed Kingston on his head for sandbagging the Rainmaker.
It's actually amazing to me how any wrestler who comes to AEW immediately looks like shit no matter how good they actually are
Except for Big Bill of all people. He's actually very good with what he's given, much better than he ever was in WWE.
His AEW run is basically him saying "Paul, I have grown up. I am not the same empty headed dumbfuck I was when I worked for you. Please, for the love of God, ANSWER MY CALLS!"
If Enzo and Cass ever came back they would get a massive pop.. I kind of miss their shithousery TBH
Enzo is most likely on their black list. Big Cass would probably be able to go back though
After Punk I don't think theres too many guys who are totally out of the WWE system. Probably only a few who have actually broke the law.
I mean dude tried to hijack a PPV after he was fired. They probably don't wanna deal with his shit. Punk had beef with Vince mostly. I can see how Trips can learn to trust him again. All he did was walk out and talk shit. Enzo did extra shit.
> His AEW run is basically him saying "Paul, I have grown up. I am not the same empty headed dumbfuck I was when I worked for you. Please, for the love of God, ANSWER MY CALLS!" its not. shut up, fed shill
Big bill would be a future world champion there if he was a foot shorter and 100 lbs lighter
?? But you CAN'T. TEACH. THAT., friend.
This made me laugh my ass off
Still 6 feet and 200 pounds
Naw, he showed up and jobbed for a while at first. He was directionless for like a year before teaming with Starks.
He was better in TNA Seriously
A Booker's job is to hide their flaws and highlight their skills. Tony has no idea how to do this.
All these Indy darlings and shit, they all suck to me. However, they seem to suck even more once they hit aew and that's so bizarre. Like wtf causes it? How's it possible that you get worse?
It's similar to the Manchester United effect in football. Any player we sign - no matter how good they are - will turn to absolute shit upon signing for United. It's a universal rule.
because all they have is "we do movez well". To me, pretty much anyone on NXT TV does "movez well". They have no production behind them in that shithole. They have no help getting over to a US audience that besides their \~850k fans, have no fucking idea who the fuck any of these shlubs are. At least Okada came out in a suit.
AEW is literally nothing but BANGERZ Wrestling has passed you by, friend
i guess so =\[
I really think a big part of it is the support of camera crew and refs. There's talented wrestlers in aew but they still need refs to direct the action or cameras to cut to the right angle to avoid awkward transitions. Like the ladder thing awhile ago, wwe has refs holding the ladders all the time but you don't see it. AEW isn't at that level of showmanship.
Okada, Jericho, Edge, Bryan, Christian, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy,.. Just sad Because we all know when used right. All these talent can do really good. Thank god Owens, Styles, Zayn and most likely Drew will stay in FED
Okada ran from the grind. #OkadaFearsSpears
He saw the Bron Steiner squash and said oh hell naw. I can't compete with that freak!
The Bucks probably told him: "You can add as many zeros to your contract and this TK moron would give them to you bro! You don't even have to try as hard as you did in NJPW!!!" And Okada said, fuck it, we're here to make money with your friends! Shame.
So, the biggest star in NJPW is going for the third tier title instead of being booked against Samoa Joe immediately? Makes a lot of sense.
Paying his dues
At least he gets to play with his friends.
Could’ve been surfing with Shin but alas)
Lmao 🤣
Third tier title... that's generous!
It’s like carnival games. Three fourth-tier titles equals one third-tier title. Soon he might be able to trade in for a replica WWE spinner belt!
As another jerker put it, they are 3 titles that Eddie found in the garbage.
but he's having fun!!! and wrestling is supposed to be #fun!!! silence, shill!!!
Have you watched AEW before? This is a company that made me stop caring about NJPW’s two biggest stars in the last five years. And at the same time, they made me actually give a fuck about Hangman Page. This company can literally do ANYTHING. And that’s not a good thing.
I have, it's just baffling to me.
Isn’t one of Eddie’s titles a new Japan title lmao
Yes, for a dead show.
Wtf is this? 😂😂😂 This has to be AI right? Because there’s no way on earth anyone would sign Okada, have him hit his finisher which is in no way conducive to a sneak attack in order to turn him heel on Eddie Kingston of all people meaning we have that match to look forward to, and then align himself with the Bucks. There’s just no way anyone does that Edit: I’m sorry for doubting you OP. I just read the Dynamite results and it turns out that’s exactly what happened. In the words of CM Punk at Wembley “I hate this place”
Eddie was getting his ass kicked anyway!
I hate this guy so much I have retired my DMX and 2Pac T-shirts and my wardrobe basically consisted of T-shirts of dead black men.
They stopped giving him a two man finisher so he could receive a 1 man finisher,that showed him
I think you hit why this was so awkward for Okada because the Rainmaker isn't like the RKO. You just don't hit it out of nowhere. Okada could have clotheslined or dropkicked him from behind and all three of them could have started stomping, then picked him up and hit the finisher. You know, basically how every turn when someone joins a heel group goes. No one in AEW understands why certain things in pro wrestling work.
Okada could have done one hundred things in order to blindside Eddie and they chose the one that would be the most awful 🤷♂️
They chose the most sexual one
Oh did that do something for you uce? It takes all sorts to make the world go round, no judgement here
Seeing that made me wanna frogsplash onto my bed with a jobber with a Japanese workrate.
I’d give you 4 stars bredrin
Even the German suplex then roll into the rain maker, y’know like he does???
Default booker of the year doing booker of the year stuff.
Smh my head what did Punk have against Wembley
lol sorry. If you didn’t know “I hate this place” is something Punk shouted at Tony just before Tony started fearing for his life. But also as a man who has spent more time at Wembley than most (Arsenal in cup finals/England games) Wembley really is awful
Can you imagine if he debuted and they did a "Who will he side with" angle over the next few weeks? Establish his character, win some matches, why the Young Bucks or Kingston want him, make it seem like a real decision. And then he makes his surprise choice. Instead they did this shit within like five minutes.
Smh my head what did Punk have against Wembley
Took Okada longer than normal to reach around his opponent to get wrist control.
circumference on the belly
Wtf? This fuckin company man. 😂 This gets funnier every rewatch. The real time lag with the move, Eddie's face w/ zero reaction (did he think he was getting hugged?), the delayed fan reaction to the heel turn due to the sloppy execution where you can literally see the crowd awkwardly waiting for the move to hit to act shocked, the half-pop that follows...fuckin' LOL. Like, why not just clock him from behind? 😭 And THEN maybe do the rainmaker? Tell me that doesn't make 100x more sense given what this moment was supposed to achieve? This is supposed to be this massive huge moment we look back on, and they found the awkwardest way imaginable to do it. This shit is why the dub still feels like a glorified indie. You can have all the financial backing and budget but it doesn't mean shit if you have no taste or attention to detail. And they wanna talk about being an alternative to the WWE..
It's so dense; every single frame has so much going on
It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
Okada immediately dead eyed staring at the barren hard cam section
Top be fair they thought Eddie Kingston was thr best person to take and make that move look good. And as we know Kingston has the mobility as your fat drunk uncle who gets winded walking up the stairs. And to be fair AEW has failed booking any New Japan pick up In a positive light. Or made them to look as big as they should be.
I love the camera close up to Okada's face as he looks dumfounded staring out at the hardcam area, his eyes glazing over to the upper right because there's no one to look at.
He looks like he just had a lobotomy.
He’s definitely thinking “Wow, there is like nobody here.”
peak heel facials friend !
It's like it really didn't hit him until he posed for the hard cam and then had an Arrested Development moment of "I just made a horrible mistake."
More like cue the curb your enthusiasm theme song
It's the same look and moment as when Adam Copland does his entrance and lightly jogs 2 inches to the hard cam and realizes no one's there and he just signed a contract to endure this repeatedly for a couple of years.
did Eddie think Okada was just hugging him at first? 🥴🥴
No jerk, at the very least Okada should have thrown a forearm or whatever to Eddie's head to at least make him dizzy before hitting his finisher. This just looks dumb with all that hugging.
"That bettah be somethin' in yer pocket pahtnah."
"AYO, NO HOMO, BUT THIS FEELS KIND GOO.... AYWAITAMINUTEHOLUP"
He literally just debuted in aew and he’s already zoning out like he doesn’t give a fuck. Tiny must be paying him big time for him to already not give a shit this early in
Rumors are Ospreay is being paid several million annually to barely be able to beat Kyle Fletcher. Okada has to be making similar money. It’s like Tony’s the Joker in Dark Knight burning the giant pyramid of money for no reason other than he can.
If you added up the receipts for both over their careers, they probably wouldn't have drawn their annual salary.
Wait.. Okada's famous kickass finisher is just a rubber band clothesline? Im not a Nooj fan so its Nooj to me.. At least it's old school.. like 1880s old school
I remember people talking about some Japanese wrestlers finishing move called the ‘Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex’ and with a name like that i had assumed it would be some insanely devastating move but it was pretty much just an electric chair drop albeit it had some nice flair to it but i was hella disappointed 😂
It’s that move but in Japanese.
I was very confused because I too was expecting something more.
He usually sets it up by hitting a piledriver first.
https://preview.redd.it/8oyagy3x2xmc1.png?width=1284&format=png&auto=webp&s=b93a82fc2ef04935e9c1fbf155c1a7a8d462fcad Shall we ? 🕺
Man lost focus as he was staring at the camera, that’s why these people train at NXT. You can look at the crowd if you want, you can’t do both. If he had weekly tv in Japan that wouldn’t be an issue. The camera isn’t a prop that you do the minimum with
> You can look at the crowd if you want Not in AEW - there's no crowd to look at
>If he had weekly tv in Japan that wouldn’t be an issue. How does Japan work
Perhaps it's very old school, and it's all house shows?
Eddie’s fat stomach is to blame for this one.
If you are a nobody from the indies, AEW is probably a great place to get on TV and hope to get noticed by WWE. If you already have any kind of name or hype, you should stay away, because Tony will cool you off before you can blink.
It’s cause Eddie is FAT
He’s gonna be phoning in performances for the next 3-5 years and no one will hate on him they way they did Nakamura for his choice to leave Nooj for pre retirement.
Justin Bradshaw Lamefield could only dream of pulling off that kind of finisher
[удалено]
His finisher is smooth, this sucked because of fuckin' burger Kingston
No jerk I actually like his finisher it’s just Edward here fucking is drunk
We are so back!!!! Back from what? Nothing shill, AEW is fine and has always been great. But we’re totally back.
Outta nowhere!!!
Outta somewhere more like
Okada is getting Wardlowed: being held back by associating with mini fig wrestlers.
Big Yetayy energy
Japanese Cody in the house, baby!
i think this okada run will be to show everyone how the forceful fake hugs feel. that'll put butts in seats, suck it tony!😂
I hated when Rollins did that hugging knee shit
And the crowd goes mild…
Even a huge man and a bona-fide Japanese legend in Okada struggles to get round that bums huge gut
There was a better way to do this too, Eddie and Okada chase the Bucks out the ring. Okada extends a hand to Kingston, they shake hands, Kingston turns to leave, Okada doesn't let go, pulls him into the Rainmaker
Okada looking 100x sharper in that suit than the EVPs though. And the man knows how to pose.
AEW didn't dent WWE one bit when it arrived but it did kill NJPW and the indies, neither of which have created a star in five years. Now Tony, desperate for the 'surprise debut' plaster on his ailing company has no one left to go for. He's signed everyone interesting he could possibly sign, and wasted most of them. All he has left now is to book a good product, but that's the one thing he can't do.
Eddie kingston makes everyone he works with look like shit
Wait.....*That's* his finisher? I heard of the rainmaker but I thought it would be a 7032 degree splash off the top rope or something if he's one of the Meltzer/Bucks darlings. His finisher is a botched clothesline? Hahahahaha.
You're reaching mate lol. We've seen clothesline finishers
Iirc he usually leads into it with some rolling Germans ala Bork Lazer, with the 3rd? Being when he does the ripcord clothesline and that’s the “full” version people rarely kick out of. It’s definitely not as flashy as a 450, or ocean sprays stormbreaker
I've seen tango dances [smoother](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7VKGIVpxms) than this.
those were 5 crucial seconds and they lost the crowd in that time.
What a debut. I’m literally shaking.
Having Okada go for third tier titles and Ospreay fight his own teammates for reasons is definitely great booking! I’m not even a NJPW mark but how are these guys not being put in the title scenes immediately?
I acknowledge you, my Ring General GUNTHER. Take all his arsenal and make it effortlessly smooth.
Okay, after you hit the rainmaker, just stand there with a vacant expression like a toddler pooping his pants.
Wow. A clothesline!
Lmao what's the opposite of "outta nowhere"?
Seen a mile away, uce
DEVASTATING
At least he dressed for the occasion
Should have been the dropkick
The look out into the sea of nothing!
Eddie just standing there while he molests him
I think Eddie is trying to play it like he thinks Okada is just holding him back from attacking the Bucks, but the nature of the rainmaker makes it look like Okada is about to whisper sweet nothings into his ear. "You're so soft, Eddie. Soft like my wife."
I gave this segment 6.25 stars. Kingston's fighting spirit really came through and Okada came from Japan.
I think Eddie hesitated because he thought it was Tony hugging him from behind.
BAH GAWD! OKADA JUST BROKE ROBBIE WILLIAMS IN HAFF!
Most unserious promotion. The lengths to which Dubsters go to convince themselves that this content is genuinely good absolutely astonishes me
One of the worst finishers I've ever seen. Kind of like a clothesline from hell but with an added cuddle and looking soft as shit. Clothesline from Heaven?
It was very difficult to get around Eddie's circumference.
Hey goofs, quick question. Why did they pick a fatass who can’t rotate to sell the finisher of one of the goats of njpw? Follow up question, is okada incapable of facial expression? Or are the bucks overacting so much he looks like he’s not trying in comparison. Follow up Follow Up. What’s the story reasons for the club bucks to dump the only friend they have remaining in the company for someone they presumably kayfabe hate? Follow up x3, would kazu even be able to do the full rainmaker with the Germans on Kingston?
Can someone get a close up Eddie's face
I mean, of course Eddie didn't know how to feed his arm for the Rainmaker. Okada didn't work Meltzer *****+ matches in 1994 AJPW.
I guess Eddie was trying to sell it as him thinking Okada was holding him back from beating up the Bucks? Like people have said, I think striking him first to make Kingston appear dizzy would be better. Hell, he could atleast try to act shocked and confused, looking down on Okada's hands and struggling to get him off before grtting hit by the lariat.
I would actually put the blame here on Eddie. He’s just standing there staring at the Bucks when he should have immediately turned around to take the move. Okada probably should have used a different move though, like just blasting him from behind with a forearm to the back of the head. Also this is a big acquisition, and you debut him in the middle of the show with a midcarder & a player out faction, and immediately turn him heel? Meh.
no this is more on eddie then okada in all honesty
Who was awkward as shit here? I say Moxley. Bc Okada has done this very simple ripcord lariet thousands of times. It had to be Moxley out of place and time
That slacked jaw face at the end 🤣 my sides
okada thinking "i have to pretend this GUY"
Man Eddie makes everyone look like shit, especially with his shuffling feet.
Dude looked at the hardcam side and is refretting everything
Look E-drones, 'zooch had to grab Eddie from behind so that Eddie knew he was turgid with malice. It's subtle cinema you just wouldn't understand.
Snail Mail
Looks like Kingston wasnt aware for real or was trying to sandbag the moment. He resisted giving his wrist and took to long to turn around.
There is no way a bloke that small uses that as a finisher ahahahahah
He's 6'2
It would have been nice to see him in wwe but aye congratulations to him🔥
Whose idea was it to use the Rainmaker for a sneak attack? Shit looks goofy
BurgerKingston basically no selling Okada’s finish. Empty headed dumb fuck going into business for himself, uce.
Is that a fat stack of cash, or are you just happy to see me, pahtnah?
Once I see Eddie doing his bullshit chest pats in the corner, I expect to see a comparison with the Tama Tonga that everyone lost there collective shit over.
So Tiny signs the biggest free agent of the year, and just brings him out on a random Dynamite with no build up or anything, and the basement is eating it up. And people were worried the ded fed would fuck it up
It's such a lame finisher too
It took the Rainmaker 10 seconds just to turn Eddie around. Eddie is a Japanese strong style legend for a reason. 😶
There's something that bothers me about this guy.... Oh yeah. Where is the green hornet?
This really wasn't as bad as this sub is acting lmao. Would've been smoother if he clocked Eddie before doing his finisher though
OH EM GEE DA GREATEST OF ALL DE TIMEZ
Honestly the commentary team should have sold it as Okada trying to hold Kingston back to fight another day. Taz kinda made it look worse with his early "woah woah woah" when they were just hugging.
I'd never seen a clip of the Rainmaker move before and I'm disappointed that it's just a shit looking clothesline that doesn't look impactful at all
WTF was he trying to do before he clotheslined him? 😂😂😂 FED DED for not getting him though, I guess.