Kenny Omega: You Have To Be One Of The World’s Best Athletes To Succeed In Today’s Global Wrestling Climate
Kenny Omega opens up about the Forbidden Door.
In the last couple of years, the word Forbidden Door has been brought up a lot more and has opened for promotions like All Elite Wrestling and New Japan Pro-Wrestling to partner together to bring the very best wrestlers from both companies together to show why they are who they say they are. Recently, WWE has opened up their own with TNA, and it’s something that Kenny Omega feels needed to happen so we could see who has bragging rights of the best wrestlers from around the world.
“I think that the concept of the Forbidden Door now, now that the door’s been booted wide open, it’s less of a…the way that I used to picture the Forbidden Door, you picture the cartoony door at the pearly gates, it’s like you need that special permission to open that thing up,” Omega told NJPW.
“Now, I just feel like it’s a revolving door. But you go out one end, you don’t come back the other, unless you have that passion because it’s opened the talent pool so wide, and it’s made our roster so diverse with so many options that if you aren’t a complete athlete, if you aren’t a complete wrestler, you just can’t hang. So is it special? Maybe it’s lost a smidge of specialness by being able to cross over that plane. But it’s made the competition that much stiffer, and it’s made the competition that much tougher. You can’t succeed now unless you’re absolutely, not only the best in America, but the best in England, the best in Australia, the best in New Zealand, the best in Japan. You have to be one of the world’s best athletes to succeed now in today’s global wrestling climate, and I think the Forbidden Door helped facilitate that.”
Omega will make an appearance at NJPW’s Power Struggle event. There is no word yet on what that may involve. We will keep you updated on any news we hear about it.
H/t to Fightful for the transcription.
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