Ā Kazuchika Okada spoke with NJPW to discuss how he named his finisher, what he thinks about the NJPW tag division, and whether he would team with Will Ospreay.Ā
"Iāve gotta say, ever since Tanahashi and Ibushi won the tag belts, that division is looking a lot more appealing. The prospect of guys that Iāve fought so hard with in singles being tag champions, thatās intriguing. And wrestling the two of them together, thatās something different to singles matches weāve had before. I know I only just lost my title to Naito, but if itās a question of wrestling for the tag titles or a double IWGP championship match, the tag titles are more interesting to me."
"Itās been talked about quite a lot and you can find out about some of that stuff yourself if youāre good at digging around online. But to make a long story short, itās this American phrase connected to people that can come into a company and instantly make a ton of money for them, and I thought it would be a cool fit for me in NJPW. So it became my nickname. And then to make sure it was used and that brand of mine got strengthened, I made it the name of my finish, too. As for the move itself, you see that wrist clutch and extension quite a lot in lucha libre; I canāt remember the match, but I remember seeing it in America and thinking it looked cool. And I always thought something leading to a lariat would be a cool finish, so one was added to the other. Well, it just came down to thinking which would have more impact. Unleashing everything through a lariat like that is more powerful, I thought. Then again, if it were the other way round; if I used the lariat first time out, then the neckbreaker did more damage, then the Rainmaker would be very different today."