10 Disturbing Wrestling Bumps That Nearly Went Badly Wrong
4. Kenny Omega's Almost Literal Snap Dragon
The one blight on in-ring perfection, Kazuchika Okada Vs. Kenny Omega I was a masterpiece because it incorporated so much unreal, relentless content, but pieced it altogether with such perfect pacing and build that they never once lost an entranced audience throughout its 46:45 duration.
That build was germane to the story of Omega mapping his path to the One-Winged Angel that he never did execute, somehow leaving space for a sequel to the dynamic that had more or less perfected itself - but this lunatic, disgusting move was surely more effective than Omega's finish, lofty mythology and all.
It's the sort of move that looks harrowing when executed from a traditional position - the sort of move and angle that Japanese wrestling moved away from in the wake of Mitsuharu Misawa's tragic 2009 in-ring death - and Omega struck it from the top rope. There was a certain psychology behind it - the two men aimed for a dangerous spectacle the likes of which the world had never seen - but mercifully, it was never revisited in the three subsequent sequels.
Presumably, it was considered superfluous - and Okada, quite rightly, never wished to risk such punishment nor surgery when he was enough of a genius to not resort to it.