>>13013279Jay and Will would definitely have not stayed. They would have signed the mark contract rather than working for a hotdog and a handshake in NJPW. Plus, America is a lot closer to their culture than Japan is.
Okada is a valid argument. Doubt he would leave if not for the AEW schedule which would allow him to still reside mostly in Japan. But at the end of the day this isn't AEW's fault. Wrestlers would leave to whoever pays the most. If it wasn't AEW, it would have been WWE since Okada would want to make some serious money eventually.
You talking shit about AEW is fine, but didn't AJ, the OC, Devitt and Nakamura (a japanese main eventer in NJPW no less) all leave way before AEW was even a thing?