Yuya Uemura follow Okada’s path to greatest


Since a long time, we saw Yuya growing and becoming today the best wrestler in New Japan, but I think it's mostly because he follow Okada's path.

Like Okada, Yuya took a basic move and polish it to make it a masterpiece of beauty that would make people pop. Okada choose the dropkick, becoming arguably the best user of this highly overused move. Yuya choose the arm drag. Today I think he became the only one to use regularly this move, and that's good for him.

The Sun pose remind me a lot of the Rainmaker pose, it's simple, remarkable, symbolic and easy to reproduce.

Remember who was the last Yuya's opponent before graduation for excursion? That's right, Okada himself. I suppose Yuya is arguably the one who Okada's leaving for AEW hurt the most for his grow and character story because I feel they were bounded for greater matches.

by Mandraker17