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NJPW, Invasion Attack, April 4 2015. Kota Ibushi is about to deliver his finisher to AJ Styles, when Kenny Omega–his former tag team partner and current member of the Bullet Club with Styles–hops onto the apron, distracting him for a split-second necessary for Styles to recover and get the ring. Styles and the Bullet Club celebrate as Kenny Omega visibly struggles not to weep.
Eight months later Omega will kick Styles out of the Bullet Club and begin his meteoric super-villain rise which will culminate on Jan 4 2017 at Wrestle Kingdom where he challenges for the heavyweight title. Ibushi, meanwhile, suffers an injury and emotional burnout and disappears for most of 2015-2016 from New Japan, teasing and eventually rejecting a contract with the WWE while a forlorn Kenny alternately taunts and pleads with him through social media. The two have not interacted in public since this moment.
Tiger Mask W, a masked wrestler with a build and wrestling style eerily similar to Ibushi’s, will be wrestling at Wrestle Kingdom, the same night Kenny goes for the biggest prize in New Japan, and I cannot wait.
Kenny Omega v. Juice Robinson, NJPW Road to Invasion Attack, March 19 2016.
True story: the woman I was sitting next to was in ecstacy over Kenny Omega. “Kenny,” she whispered over and over in breathless joy and longing. “Kenny. Ohhhh. Kenny. Kennykennykenny. k e n n y.” I felt a deep and meaningful spiritual bond with her that transcended the language barrier, my wrestling soul sister.
Kenny Omega enters the ring on his way to winning the Intercontinental title at NJPW’s New Beginning: Niigata.
Kenny Omega, on his reaction to becoming the first foreigner to win the G1 tournament–which means he will be the first foreigner to ever main event NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom next January.
Just a few of the most wonderful things about this snippet of Kenny Omega’s victory celebration on winning the NJPW Intercontinental title:
1. His nickname is “The Cleaner,” and Kenny being the dork he is has decided that means he is a literal “Master of the Dark Janitorial Arts” and brings cleaning supplies to the ring. His shrug in the first gif: “They made a mess! Now I must live up to my name!”
2. He’s just defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi, known for playing air guitar, so of course he must play air broom.
3. He’s just wrestled a match that is both full of cheating/outside interference (after specifically noting that some wrestling fans hate those kids of matches) AND a technical masterpiece of athletics and psychology. He hurt his leg early on and sold it flawlessly all the way through the match; at the end of his victory celebration he suddenly “remembers” he’s supposed to be selling that leg and carefully does so. It’s a jeering poke in the eye of a certain type of smarky fan, and my love for him knows no bounds.
Tomohiro Ishii and Kenny Omega go off the turnbuckle at NJPW Wrestling Dontaku.
Kenny Omega’s moonsault, NJPW’s Wrestling Dontaku 2017.
Kenny Omega, Toyohashi Japan, Oct. 25 2016.
“Now they think I am a GOD.” Kenny Omega on the effects of his G1 win.
After the Young Bucks help Kenny Omega win the New Japan Intercontinental title by hiding under the ring until it was time to cheat, the trio shoots a video to show how they help out in other ways. {x}