GKJ
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- Feb 27, 2002
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I'm aware I brought up Balor. Because it's a valid comparison at this point. "Big feud"? I mean it's not big in comparison to Rock/Cody, Drew/Punk, Bloodline/Bloodline, but it's also probably not fair to say "This isn't shit compared to these massive stars". I do agree that Priest almost certainly goes over Finn in it, but it's inevitably happening. Even if they drag it out, it's probably happening before Okada/Omega simply due to Kenny's health.
He may be doing what he wants to do, but this is where Tony's an idiot. You don't pay high dollar for a guy as a top star and then spend a year doing non-top star shit with them.
And to be fair, I dunno that WWE would be much better. They did do a good job of presenting Nakamura once Vince was out of the way, but it never went anywhere because it was against Cody and he obviously wasn't getting a W there. Now, where it MIGHT work with Okada is I think Triple H probably feels fans are already conditioned to indifference on Nakamura, whereas Okada would be fresh.
They could probably heat up Nakamura any time they wanted to, but he’s never going to be a top guy and I’m not sure how much he wants to be. He had his NXT run and Wrestlemania match, he’s doing what many of these Japanese stars figured out which is that you don’t need to be over trying to do difficult 30-minute matches, they do half as much, are just as over, and they’re still bigger in Japan now than they would be.