>>15723399Most of us do not dispute that Okada should be in more matches - and the higher up the card his opponent, the better. If I was making the matches, I would put Daniel Garcia in Fletcher's place - have him talk up if he wins the belt from Okada, then his match vs MJF becomes title vs title, winner take all. Have Okada be pissed like "How dare you look past me". The stuff writes itself.
For the actual match, they go back and forth for 10+ minutes, Okada is dominating, gets a little cocky, Garcia finds an opening, gets the upper hand...and then MJF jumps in and interferes. DQ. Then 2.0's music hits and BOTH Menard and Parker run into the ring to even the odds. Okada/MJF scurry. Okada protected, Garcia protected, potential Okada+MJF vs 2.0 match set up, MJF fined for interfering in a Continental title match, there's a shitload of ways to branch out from there.
And I don't want to hear any of that shit about "Your fantasy booking is just WWE", because TNA, MLW, WCW, ECW, SMW and most other promotions you can think of either have done this or would do it.
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Instead of any of this, we will get a 'competitive' Okada/Fletcher match for 15+ minutes and then Fletcher will lose, shoulders flat as a pancake, 1-2-3. And we all know it's going to happen. And the die-hards will watch anyway. And 20-50k non-diehards will tune out. And the diehards will take a victory lap based on what Cagematch and Meltzer say about the match. It's Groundhog Day.
The biggest question surrounding AEW right now is how much Tony's aversion to Count Out/DQ finishes has cost his company in terms of market share and fanbase growth. Will he really stubbornly stick to his NJPW tribute act all the way into financial and fanbase destitution?