Kazuchika Okada : How TNA Blew It With Japan's Biggest Star
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Fast Links • Okada Was Treated Like A Jobber Upon His TNA Arrival • Okada Became The Green Hornet Inspired Okato • Jeff Jarrett Called TNA's Use Of Okada As One Of The Biggest Misses In TNA History New Japan Pro Wrestling's Kazuchika Okada is without a doubt truly outstanding and most embellished grapplers on the planet , and will probably go down as one of the flat out best ever once he hangs up the boots . Okada is a five - time IWGP Heavyweight Champion , a one - time IWGP World Heavyweight Champion ( heavyweight and intercontinental titles bound together ) , and h the record for longest title rule ( 720 days ) and most title safeguards in a solitary rule
( 12 ) . Subsequent to moving on from NJPW's " youthful lion " framework , contenders go on a learning trip beyond Japan to give them further flavoring prior to joining the principal program . Since getting back from his journey in TNA on January 4 , 2012 , at Wrestle Kingdom 6 , The Rainmaker has been the prevailing power in NJPW and is perhaps of the greatest star in wrestling overall . He's as of late falling off his second continuous G1 Climax win ( fourth aggregate , tied for all - time lead with Masa Chono ) , and will challenge current contending in dull counterparts for his initial not many months , and had his previously broadcast match on April 6 on TNA's optional program Xplosion , utilizing only his last name and cooperating with Homicide in a horrible exertion against Generation Me ( The Young Bucks ) . Okada at last had his Effect debut on July 15 , however not in a match - - he hurried to the ring to prevent previous ECW grapplers from assuming control over the show . He got his most memorable success in August against Kid Kash in one more dull match . RELATED : 10 Disturbing Things You Forgot Happened In TNA Okada Became The Green Hornet Inspired Okato Okada showed up o Impact on January 20 , 2011 , turning face uncovering himself as a camera man employed by Samoa Joe follow D'Angelo Dinero to uncover his lies about aiding the penniless . Yeesh . He likewise had another look motivated by Kato from The Green Hornet , and he was re - named Okato . Fierce . Okato made his PPV debut at Against All Odds 2011 , keeping Dinero from leaving the ring in his match against Joe . He would at long last have his Effect in - ring debut on March 24 - - over a year after he joined the organization - - overcoming Dinero by preclusion . The match closed Joe and Dinero's fight , and Okato got once again to Okada . Okada's last coordinate with the organization was a misfortune to Alex Shelley in the main round of the Xplosion Championship Challenge on June 21. He was taken out from the TNA list page that October , and rout YOSHI - HASHI in a very disappointing return match at Wrestle Kingdom 6. He shockingly tested IWGP Heavyweight Champion and NJPW banner conveyor , Hiroshi Tanahashi , to a match after Tanahashi crushed Minoru Suzuki in the headliner . Okada would overcome Tanahashi for the title the following month at The New Beginning , presently known as " The Rainmaker Shock . " And the rest is history . Okada has since acknowledged this time for instructing him that he really wanted something beyond an incredible match , he wanted a person . Protected to say The Rainmaker has assembled everything . RELATED : 10 Great TNA Wrestlers Who Were Stuck With Bad Gimmicks Jeff Jarrett Called TNA's Use Of Okada As One Of The Biggest Misses In T History Jeff Jarrett , who worked for TNA at that point , and later as a leader , shot TNA for their treatment of Okada recently on his web recording My World With Jeff Jarrett . " I'm happy I had no piece of it , except for it is surely straight up there at the top [ of one of the greatest misses in TNA history ] , " said Jarrett . " Did I say I realized Okada planned to be Okada ? No , I didn't have a clue about that . In any case, he's young and the relationship is perfect , and assuming they say he's great , he's great , " Jarrett proceeded . " It's fantastic the absence of - I don't even want to say vision , simply the absence of mindfulness that , hello folks , how about we accomplish something as a result of the worth of the relationship . They cared very little about it . They were all of a piece of it and mindful of it . On various occasions it was examined . "
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