>>10468084Remember when Suwama tried to provoke Okada at the All Together event by working stiff with him?
Similar to the situation with Kaito, Okada never deviated from fake wrestling and only responded with phony moves and taunts.
He looked like a complete buffoon.
It was often said that "pro wrestlers carry a blade in their pocket".
Not a literal blade, but a figurative one.
Back then, wrestlers knew legitimate holds that could incapacitate an opponent if things got out of hand.
Okada doesn't have a "blade" because he only knows fake lucha libre holds; he doesn't have the fighting spirit of his New Japan predecessors.
He's just the heir to a strong style by process of elimination.
Inoki would not improve.
Nakamura or Shibata would have responded properly to Kaito, because they are trained in actual martial arts and catch wrestling, and they wouldn't have done a "Rainmaker" during the intrusion angle.
