The Misunderstood Genius Of AEW's Kenny Omega...
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🗓️ 9 April 2023
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The problem with Kenny Omega's approach to storytelling is that he's too good at it...
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| 0:00.0 | I think Kenny Omega is one of the best wrestlers ever, |
| 0:03.3 | now because I've said that I'm going to cause an internet meltdown, but hey, |
| 0:07.0 | but as somebody who watches wrestling and does wrestling myself, |
| 0:10.8 | a lot of what he does just absolutely blows my brain, I'm like, |
| 0:14.4 | fuck me, how did he do it? He also seems to be a very nice man, |
| 0:17.2 | which I appreciate. But also when it comes to the cleaner, |
| 0:20.4 | he has more to him than meets the eye, and really there's a misunderstood genius to him, |
| 0:26.9 | we're going to talk about right now. Because one of the best matches so far of 2023 was Kenny |
| 0:31.7 | Omega versus Will Ospreay from Wrestle Kingdom, and while what they did in the ring was just insane, |
| 0:37.7 | as far as I'm concerned, it's actually all the pre-amble in the build where we need to start |
| 0:43.0 | investigate. Because really, both of these guys treated this feud as if it was a sport. |
| 0:47.7 | If you go back to some of Will Ospreay's tweets in 2022, he was very excited about the fact |
| 0:52.9 | that maybe soon, very soon, he was going to become the owner of the most five star matches in |
| 0:58.0 | history courtesy of Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer Newletter. Omega then flew into pop his |
| 1:03.0 | balloon, because he was like, listen, Will, that may be true, but let's look at the finer points here, |
| 1:06.9 | you had no pressure, you had no major crowd, it was just you running around doing the same thing |
| 1:12.0 | you always do. And if you think that's impressive, great, but I don't. So the idea was to present |
| 1:17.1 | wrestling as if it was something to excel in, even though it is predetermined, and not at like |
| 1:22.0 | it's properly real. Just getting this kind of praise is great sure, but if we look at the finer |
| 1:27.1 | picture, no, you absolutely tried my friend, but Kenny Omega says no. It's no different than when |
| 1:32.6 | Michael Jordan used to get asked about LeBron James or Ronaldo gets asked about Messi, both of these |
| 1:37.8 | kinds would kind of wiggle around the question a bit. With Jordan being like, well, you know, |
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