September 2, 201114 yr Author comment_5481603 Kensuke Sasaki and Hiro Matsuda train Erik Watts on the finer points of the STF while Ole Anderson and Tony Schiavone narrates. Okay, so yeah, this is preposterous. I like doing stuff like this to get over submissions, but it's a little wasted on Erik Watts.
September 16, 201114 yr comment_5482864 Watts looked like he was laughing putting Bagwell in the STF. They tried but it just didn't work.
November 6, 201113 yr comment_5487636 This could have worked with maybe a worker like Benoit, or Regal.
October 13, 201212 yr comment_5517231 Needed some John Cena in there. Masuda was really trying to explain how the STF works and just as he demonstrated it, Watts would not probably put it on.
September 9, 201312 yr comment_5561348 From the Linguistic Milestone Dept.: this is the first instance of "tapping out" entering the wrestling vernacular, at least on a national stage.
October 25, 201311 yr comment_5568890 Sasaki & Matsuda training Watts how to execute the STF. Perhaps Sasaki also tried to teach him charisma and personality. Bagwell looks to be having a great time.
July 18, 201510 yr comment_5685757 Since they were in Japan recently, maybe WWE should have taken the opportunity to have Sasaki give Cena a remedial course on STF application? It's looking pretty loose recently.
May 7, 20169 yr comment_5751798 They're really trying to get Erik over here, as Loss said. I applaud the effort, but why do this with a young, unproven guy, even if he's the boss's son? This would have been fine after he'd been groomed for a few years, say in the early Nitro days, but it's way premature here. At least they should have shows him successfully applying the hold at the end. I hope they let Sasaki wrestle a few times to make this video worth his while; it's a total waste to being a guy all the way from Japan for what amounts to a cameo in a two-minute video. Them again, that kind of excess is typical of WCW.
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