Kazuchika Okada Signs With AEW - Joins The Elite!
Kazuchika Okada is #AllElite
After plentiful speculation about his future, Kazuchika Okada has not only officially joined AEW, but the Rainmaker has also joined the Elite.
Having announced his intentions to leave New Japan Pro-Wrestling earlier this year, Okada appeared on last night's AEW Dynamite, seemingly to assist Eddie Kingston.
After the Young Bucks cut a promo suspending Adam Page from the Elite and firing Kenny Omega from the group, it would eventually be the Mad King who'd head to the ring to confront Matthew and Nicholas Jackson. This would quickly turn into a two-on-one beatdown from the Bucks on Kingston, and Okada's music put a temporary halt to that.
Positioning himself as back-up to Eddie, Okada would instead hit his patented Rainmaker on the Continental Champion. If that wasn't shocking enough, Nicholas Jackson then announced that Kazuchika Okada is the newest member of the Elite.
Kazuchika Okada is the newest member of the Elite!
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As for Adam Page and Kenny Omega, Hangman was expected to take some time off after AEW Revolution, while Omega is currently waiting to see if he'll need surgery to deal with the diverticulitis he's been suffering with.