The guy seems enjoying himself more than in New Japan, he's proving himself enough with his in ring work. Wonder where will his entertainer-oriented role lead him to, but so far i'm in it.
There are 2 clotheslines in the industry that look like can knock you out and look as good as the other "The Rain Maker" and "The Clothesline from Hell".
@alternative7586 As far as wrestlers are concerned, he's very average in size. If people used to kick out the Bradshaw's much more devastating Clothesline From Hell, they should kick out of this.
I've posted this elsewhere, and it belongs here: six reasons why Kazuchika Okada won't get over with a mainstream Anglophonic audience. (1) Okada doesn't speak English well enough in order to deliver a strong promo in said language. The days of the male manager mouthpiece are well in the past. Wrestlers are expected to speak for themselves these days. If Okada is insulted by an opponent, and a manager needs to step in to speak for him, well, that would just make Okada look incompetent at best, cowardly at worst. Okada just sounds stiff and charisma-free when he attempts his meagre English. (2) Okada doesn't have a physique like Bill Goldberg or Scott Steiner. Okada doesn't scream "wrestler" to the casual viewer (at least not to viewers rasied on Goldberg-Steiner types). Okada looks like someone who goes to the gym, yet that isn't necessarily the same thing as looking like a wrestler. If Okada had a Goldberg-Steiner physique, it would largely negate the other things on the list--yet he doesn't. (3) Okada has a short-arm clothesline as his finisher. If this were 1990 and he had either a moonsault (Muta) or a shooting star press (Liger), then different story. Yet Okada uses a short-arm clothesline as his finisher, like it's 1985. (4) Tying point three together with point four, Okada doesn't have the physique needed in order to make his Rainmaker (short-arm clothesline) finisher seem like a finisher. Okada is Okada, not Nikita Koloff. If you're going to use a short-arm clothesline (or any clothesline of the non-leaping variety) as a finisher these days, you better bloody well have arms like telephone poles. Again, Okada looks athletic enough for some things, yet he doesn't look like the kind of wrestler who should be using a clothesline as his finisher. (It worked for Tatsuhito Takaiwa, because he was a cruiserweight wrestling other cruiserweights, and he threw a bloody stiff clothesline.) (5) Okada has a "so what?" gimmick. Imagine you're talking to somebody who has never watched wrestling, or has watched very little. Show them a picture of The Roadies, the person is interested. Tell them about a man bringing a snake to the ring, they're intrigued. Rave to them about this wrestler who is seven feet tall, and even if the giant is clumsy (e.g. Giant Gonzales), they'll at least take a look. Now tell them about Okada walking to the ring with fake money falling all around him. It's a "so what?" reaction from the unconverted--and the audience won't grow if you can't convert people. (6) Related to the above: Muta had face paint and a mist-blowing gimmick. Liger had a wild costume that you always remembered. Muta and Liger had characteristics and moves that were enough to negate their lack of English and relatively small builds. By contrast, Okada is just a tall Japanese fellow with bleached blonde hair. Okada looks more like a refugee from a J-Pop band than an Anglophonic viewer's idea of a pro wrestler. I say this, by the way, as someone who has watched, in person, Okada work in front of both his native Japanese audience (Tokyo Dome) and a foreign Anglophonic audience. He simply does not, and will not, draw outside Japan for the above reasons--and what's the point of bringing him in if he doesn't grow the viewership? It's that typically stupid Absolutely Embarrassing Woefulness idea of catering to the one per cent, instead of examining possible ways to draw in the currently unconverted. There are more than 340 million Americans who don't watch Absolutely Embarrassing Woefulness. The hallmark of every successful wrestling promotion has been a desire to reach the unconverted. Absolutely Embarrassing Woefulness doesn't seem to know how to do that. These are facts--and not surprisingly, there are quite a few apologists for Absolutely Embarrassing Woefulness who will scream, whine, kick the sand and say "NO, NO, NO, YOU'RE WRONG, YOU'RE WRONG!" No, I'm not wrong, I'm right. Everything I've said about Okada is true, and Absolutely Embarrassing Woefulness really doesn't have a clue. One more thing that I didn't mention when posting this previously: I don't know why Japanese people (especially wrestlers) think it's funny to swear in English. It doesn't make them cool, it just makes them sound uncouth.
I agree with most of the points except lack of charisma. Okada has tons of charisma. If he builds his physique to be more defined, he can reach a higher level.
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If Okada has a million fans I am one of them
If Okada has one fan, I am that fan
If Okada has no fans, I am dead
That’s deep 💀 😂
@@FionnMcFcOK did you say deep? 🐬
The guy seems enjoying himself more than in New Japan, he's proving himself enough with his in ring work. Wonder where will his entertainer-oriented role lead him to, but so far i'm in it.
Every segment has been gold
オカダは泣き虫なベビーよりふてぶてしいヒールが似合う😊
God I love Okada
日本のオカダファンです。新日を退団して早半年余り、こうして活躍して海外のプロレスファンを熱狂させている姿に勇気をもらいました🤣これからもやりたいようにやって世界一のレスラーになってほしい✨
This guy is extremely talented 👌👌👌👌
Okada had a lot of Aew big matches and moments
Big matches? Which one?
@@tonimaestre96 all of them
新日の頃より見てて気持ちいい
😁😂🤣 that okada amazing in the ring but the B word always entertaining.
Crazy how cocky Okada is in the ring but he can surely back it up.
great compilation
Okada very look like yakuza boss face
he's in Yakuza Kiwami 2 😄
We need to start putting Okada in the GOAT conversation.
Old news. He's already the GOAT!
I push the wrong button 😂😭
“IM SO SORRRRYYYYYYYYYRYRYRYR!!!! BITCH!”
I'm so sorry!! .....Bitch
Press
@@JustinPaul2309 push press whatever he said was funny 😂😭
すっかりヒールが板についてきたな！オカダよ！
Those dropkicks are shades of Curt Henning.
オカダいつの間にか悪役になってた
I'm sooo sorrrrrrrrrrrry
Okada is like Cody Rhodes playing Stardust without the paint
There are 2 clotheslines in the industry that look like can knock you out and look as good as the other "The Rain Maker" and "The Clothesline from Hell".
タレントのIKKOに顔が似てるのに、ソーリーの言い方もそっくりだな
okada lkko
We need okada vs Eddie again
Ford
It's Funny..... Dance steps and dialogue are better than wrestling.
いっこう
fan of Okada but that does not look more effective, less even, than Clothesline from Hell.
Wait, his finisher is a clothesline from an average sized man?
He is 6'3", not average sized. Secondly, the Lariat is a perfect finisher. Don't disrespect the clothesline
@alternative7586 As far as wrestlers are concerned, he's very average in size. If people used to kick out the Bradshaw's much more devastating Clothesline From Hell, they should kick out of this.
파란형은 누가봐도 안맞았잖아….
4 minutes seems like too long of a video for what he's done in AEW
I've posted this elsewhere, and it belongs here: six reasons why Kazuchika Okada won't get over with a mainstream Anglophonic audience.
(1) Okada doesn't speak English well enough in order to deliver a strong promo in said language. The days of the male manager mouthpiece are well in the past. Wrestlers are expected to speak for themselves these days. If Okada is insulted by an opponent, and a manager needs to step in to speak for him, well, that would just make Okada look incompetent at best, cowardly at worst. Okada just sounds stiff and charisma-free when he attempts his meagre English.
(2) Okada doesn't have a physique like Bill Goldberg or Scott Steiner. Okada doesn't scream "wrestler" to the casual viewer (at least not to viewers rasied on Goldberg-Steiner types). Okada looks like someone who goes to the gym, yet that isn't necessarily the same thing as looking like a wrestler. If Okada had a Goldberg-Steiner physique, it would largely negate the other things on the list--yet he doesn't.
(3) Okada has a short-arm clothesline as his finisher. If this were 1990 and he had either a moonsault (Muta) or a shooting star press (Liger), then different story. Yet Okada uses a short-arm clothesline as his finisher, like it's 1985.
(4) Tying point three together with point four, Okada doesn't have the physique needed in order to make his Rainmaker (short-arm clothesline) finisher seem like a finisher. Okada is Okada, not Nikita Koloff. If you're going to use a short-arm clothesline (or any clothesline of the non-leaping variety) as a finisher these days, you better bloody well have arms like telephone poles. Again, Okada looks athletic enough for some things, yet he doesn't look like the kind of wrestler who should be using a clothesline as his finisher.
(It worked for Tatsuhito Takaiwa, because he was a cruiserweight wrestling other cruiserweights, and he threw a bloody stiff clothesline.)
(5) Okada has a "so what?" gimmick. Imagine you're talking to somebody who has never watched wrestling, or has watched very little. Show them a picture of The Roadies, the person is interested. Tell them about a man bringing a snake to the ring, they're intrigued. Rave to them about this wrestler who is seven feet tall, and even if the giant is clumsy (e.g. Giant Gonzales), they'll at least take a look. Now tell them about Okada walking to the ring with fake money falling all around him. It's a "so what?" reaction from the unconverted--and the audience won't grow if you can't convert people.
(6) Related to the above: Muta had face paint and a mist-blowing gimmick. Liger had a wild costume that you always remembered. Muta and Liger had characteristics and moves that were enough to negate their lack of English and relatively small builds. By contrast, Okada is just a tall Japanese fellow with bleached blonde hair. Okada looks more like a refugee from a J-Pop band than an Anglophonic viewer's idea of a pro wrestler.
I say this, by the way, as someone who has watched, in person, Okada work in front of both his native Japanese audience (Tokyo Dome) and a foreign Anglophonic audience. He simply does not, and will not, draw outside Japan for the above reasons--and what's the point of bringing him in if he doesn't grow the viewership?
It's that typically stupid Absolutely Embarrassing Woefulness idea of catering to the one per cent, instead of examining possible ways to draw in the currently unconverted. There are more than 340 million Americans who don't watch Absolutely Embarrassing Woefulness. The hallmark of every successful wrestling promotion has been a desire to reach the unconverted. Absolutely Embarrassing Woefulness doesn't seem to know how to do that.
These are facts--and not surprisingly, there are quite a few apologists for Absolutely Embarrassing Woefulness who will scream, whine, kick the sand and say "NO, NO, NO, YOU'RE WRONG, YOU'RE WRONG!" No, I'm not wrong, I'm right. Everything I've said about Okada is true, and Absolutely Embarrassing Woefulness really doesn't have a clue.
One more thing that I didn't mention when posting this previously: I don't know why Japanese people (especially wrestlers) think it's funny to swear in English. It doesn't make them cool, it just makes them sound uncouth.
However, I think it was a good thing for Okada to choose AEW over WWE.
I agree with most of the points except lack of charisma. Okada has tons of charisma. If he builds his physique to be more defined, he can reach a higher level.
Okada was actually the reason AEW was created
Okada is already one of the best. He's a comedy heel right now, and it suits him.
영어가 유아 수준이라 캐릭터가 한정됨. 체격이 작은 일본인 사이에선 크지만, 미국인들 사이에선 평범보다 왜소한 체격. 일본 레슬링의 챔피언은 될지 몰라도 전세계적인 챔피언이 될 레슬러는 아님. 정확한 지적!
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