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Jay White was mentally distressed from his loss to Okada. He schizophrenically believed that the loss was entirely because of Hikuleo. Hikuleo is an up and coming dominant rookie that was under Jay White's wing for a very long time, and a guy that Jay White had already beaten a year prior. He learned everything he could from Jay both by his side and against him, and now he was in a swim or sink situation where he had everything to gain. Jay White, on the other hand, had little to gain and everything to lose. Jay White's mental distress plus the scouting and evolution of Hikuleo was what managed to edge out the victory for Hikuleo in the end, spelling the end of the Switchblade Era.
Eddie Kingston merely picked up the scraps. By this point, Jay knew it was over. New Japan Strong barely matters and he could never achieve anything worth a damn when fighting exclusively in America. He couldn't win the New Japan Cup with that. He couldn't win the G1 with that. He couldn't even win most belts (All belts that he had already won) from all the way over there. Yet a heavily demotivated Jay White with his era firmly over, with Gedo no longer by his side all the way back in Japan, with Bullet Club not even being allowed to interfere, was still a huge threat to Eddie Kingston and managed to kick out of not one, not two, not three, but four Eddie Kingston finishers before finally being put down.
And yes, I typed all of this and didn't copy paste it from somewhere else.
