{"id":49052,"date":"2022-11-21T23:53:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T04:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49052"},"modified":"2022-11-21T23:53:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T04:53:30","slug":"i-dont-think-kenny-omegas-heart-will-ever-be-with-aew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49052","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t think Kenny Omega\u2019s heart will ever be with AEW"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was perusing through my YouTube recommendations, and I came across this clip of Kenny Omega challenging Will Osperay, and what caught my attention was the fact that it was dated just a day ago.\u00a0 Perplexed, I bit, and I watched this not just impressive for Kenny Omega, but a very impressive promo in general, where yep, Kenny Omega was challenging Will Osperay, at WrestleKingdom, New Japan\u2019s version of Wrestlemania.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a very thoughtful, impassioned, and good promo, that doesn\u2019t just flex Omega\u2019s fluency in Japanese, but just the whole package of delivery, context and dialogue were fantastic.\u00a0 It was without question one of the best promos he\u2019s cut in ages, and without any doubt, better than any promo in English he\u2019s ever cut for AEW; that company he helped found, and is an EVP for, regardless of what kayfabe stripping of titles Tony Khan might have declared.<\/span><\/p>\n

What I\u2019m really getting to is exactly what the title of the post is; no matter what he accomplishes in AEW or the role he plays in AEW, I just can\u2019t believe that at any point, his heart will ever truly be in AEW, because Kenny Omega is such a monumental weeb that has already given his heart to Japan, and by proxy, NJPW.<\/span><\/p>\n

Forbidden doors and all those buzzwords that love to be thrown around in the current era of the business, but it\u2019s just silly to me that AEW\u2019s (arguably) biggest star is loaning himself to NJPW, and if I\u2019m a betting man, will probably put on the greatest match he\u2019ll have had over the last 3-4 years.\u00a0 Dave Meltzer will jizz out 7+ stars to describe the match, and international buy rates of the show will probably benefit from this match being announced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And it will all be under the umbrella of another promotion.<\/span><\/p>\n

NJPW will own all the footage of the match, and AEW won\u2019t be able to show any clips of it.\u00a0 Omega will go from having a mega Broadway of a match against Will Osperay in the Tokyo Dome, and then two weeks later be selling for Orange Cassidy and the Best Friends in Nassau Coliseum with the Young Bucks, whom I also don\u2019t think they really care nearly as much about AEW as much as they do their YouTube channel.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Oracle (me) says that Omega does the job, because he\u2019s still kind of on the mend, on the later stages of his career, while Osperay is still very much rising to his prime, and logic dictates that another promotion\u2019s guy shouldn\u2019t beat the house talent, but when it comes to AEW and their relationships with other promotions, it always seems like they usually win out, even if it means Omega absconds with the IWGP United States championship.\u00a0 It\u2019s not like they haven\u2019t done it before<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I also think that there\u2019s the possibility that this booking was reactionary to the WWE loaning out Shinsuke Nakamura to Pro Wrestling NOAH to have a match against the Great Muta who is kind of a (endless) retirement tour, since both events are on New Year\u2019s, and if that\u2019s the case then Osperay wins, with probably there being a fuckton of interference in order to keep heat strong for the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

I could expound on a variety of opinions, but ultimately, it all boils down to this hunch, this feeling, that I just don\u2019t think Kenny Omega\u2019s heart will ever really be with AEW, no matter what Tony Khan pays or does for him to try and win it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019d love to see the outtakes of the promo, because it probably took 28 takes at the part where he said he was surprised to have gotten the call from NJPW, because in reality he probably reacted like Stewie Griffin finding out he was going to Disney World<\/a> at the opportunity to perform for NJPW again.\u00a0 Frankly it\u2019s like the best of both worlds for him, because he gets to keep his AEW paycheck going, but he gets to go to Mecca and perform at the Tokyo Dome against an incredible talent like Osperay.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was perusing through my YouTube recommendations, and I came across this clip of Kenny Omega challenging Will Osperay, and what caught my attention was the fact that it was dated just a day ago.\u00a0 Perplexed, I bit, and I watched this not just impressive for Kenny Omega, but a very impressive promo in general, … Continue reading I don\u2019t think Kenny Omega\u2019s heart will ever be with AEW<\/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":[100,45,83,54],"class_list":["post-49052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49054,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49052\/revisions\/49054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}