>>12467670If you want to see no dimes Naito, it's not as easy as "Before excursion". Because he was actually pretty damn dimes for most of it. There's a reason why he was wrongly pushed to begin with after he came back from the injury.
Dimes Naito:
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Tetsuya Naito 08.14.2011
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito 10.10.2011
Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito 03.04.2012
Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito 08.03.2012
Dimeless Naito
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Tetsuya Naito 08.10.2013
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito 08.11.2013
Masato Tanaka vs. Tetsuya Naito 09.29.2013
Tetsuya Naito vs. Yujiro Takahashi 10.14.2013
Kazuchika Okada (c) (w/Gedo) vs. Tetsuya Naito 01.04.2014
Sort Of Dimes Naito Return (It's warming up big time here)
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito 07.26.2015
AJ Styles vs. Tetsuya Naito 07.29.2015
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito 10.12.2015
Hirooki Goto vs. Tetsuya Naito 03.12.2016
The Dimes Explosion
Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito 04.10.2016
Also, an obligatory moment of anyone wishing to study Naito's journey is Power Struggle 2013. Not the actual matches, but what happens after the main event. All you need to know is that it was at this point that it was 100% confirmed that Okada vs Naito was main eventing WK, and Naito came out to do a prom about it and declare himself NJPW's top star. You don't need to know in detail what he said. Osaka's reaction and the facial expressions of the people in the ring spell it all out.
