{"id":50283,"date":"2024-11-05T22:37:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T03:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50283"},"modified":"2024-11-05T22:37:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T03:37:35","slug":"its-almost-as-if-kenny-omega-didnt-work-for-another-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50283","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s almost as if Kenny Omega didn\u2019t work for another promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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YT<\/a>: Kenny Omega makes his first appearance in six months at New Japan Pro Wrestling\u2019s Power Struggle show, promotes potential match at NJPW WrestleDynasty<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the things that I\u2019ve been saying, even since the inception of All Elite Wrestling, is that Kenny Omega\u2019s heart has never left Japan, despite the fact that he is one of the founders and is a vice president of AEW.\u00a0 If I had to guess, he left and helped start AEW because Tony Khan was paying truckloads of money to everyone to help get the promotion started, not to mention that he kind of hit a ceiling in NJPW.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aside from the money, it was an opportunity to really shape and create and cement his legacy as one of the greatest talents to ever exist in the business of professional wrestling, and I can\u2019t fault the guy at all for taking the bag and trying to secure his financial future while he was still a hot commodity in the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

But let\u2019s try and be objective here, his body of work under the AEW banner pales in comparison to all the performances he\u2019s put on while under an NJPW flag. \u00a0Yes, it\u2019s debatable that he was younger, more prime, more spry while he was with NJPW, and his deteriorating health really started to come into play after AEW was launched.\u00a0 All valid points; but I counter with his matches with Will Ospreay a year+ ago when they were doing several AEW vs. NJPW cross-promotions.<\/span><\/p>\n

No doubt Ospreay is a world-class talent that is capable of having great matches with most anyone, but it\u2019s not like he had to carry Omega; something about Omega wrestling Ospreay in Japan, the guy pulls out a legendary match out of nowhere and then has an encore performance against Ospreay again when the time came for him to return the favor.\u00a0 Wrestling in Japan and against NJPW talent really brings the best out in Omega, and if this isn\u2019t a sure-fire tell that the man really has never taken his heart out of Japan, I don\u2019t know what is.<\/span><\/p>\n

Getting back to the linked video though, this was a spirited, heartfelt promo in my opinion, of Kenny Omega being where he\u2019s clearly the most comfortable, in Japan, speaking Japanese, to fans whom he can relate to, appreciate him, and shares a mutual respect for, and not the snarky, sarcastic overboard hipster fans that tend to make up the majority of AEW fanbase.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listening him put over New Japan, the country of Japan, and how much he loves it, I can\u2019t help but wonder what goes on through the mind of Tony Khan, his boss in AEW, when he sees his very own, highly-paid and highly-respected talent gushing so hard over his former employer?\u00a0 It\u2019s obvious that Omega has a higher regard for everything Japan over his actual employer, and I can\u2019t help but feel embarrassed for TK and AEW that he\u2019s putting them over so hard, because I\u2019m hard pressed to recall at any point where he\u2019s ever been so heartfelt and genuine to an AEW crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, when it really comes down to it, I really just hope that Kenny Omega has the opportunity to regain his health, and get back into the wrestling ring, because the industry as a whole is better with Kenny Omega in it.\u00a0 I want the guy to be happy, because when his heart is into it, there legitimately are fewer better in the business that can put on an incredible match, but I\u2019m dubious that whatever he does under an AEW banner would ever be able to compete with anything he does under an NJPW one.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YT: Kenny Omega makes his first appearance in six months at New Japan Pro Wrestling\u2019s Power Struggle show, promotes potential match at NJPW WrestleDynasty One of the things that I\u2019ve been saying, even since the inception of All Elite Wrestling, is that Kenny Omega\u2019s heart has never left Japan, despite the fact that he is … Continue reading It\u2019s almost as if Kenny Omega didn\u2019t work for another promotion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,83,54],"class_list":["post-50283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-observations","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50285,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50283\/revisions\/50285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}