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Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan
As a new NJPW fan trying to catch up a little, this tournament did an amazing job setting up challengers for Okada.
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Yeup.
Guess the WWE equivalent would be putting the champ in the Rumble to personally get rid of potential future threats and set up the pre-Mania ppv title shot. In NJPW's case, they have a few more events in between for title defenses.