>>5452068AEW would absolutely get into a bidding war with WWE over Okada, if he ever became available. Which he's not gonna do, by the way. Dude is a God in New Japan, he's married to a Japanese celebrity. He's gonna spend the next 5-7 years at the top of the card, then willingly slide down the card and put over the next set of guys like everyone else.
If he decides he wants to phone it in, he'll just turn into Makabe and spend his entire opening 8-man tag on the apron, tag in once, do some elbows and tag out. That saves his body and doesn't require him to move across the world to a country where his grasp of the language is, at best, a work in progress.