Kenny Omega went to war with the Ace.
In Kenny Omega’s last match with New Japan Pro-Wrestling before he and the rest of the gang started All Elite Wrestling. It was Omega who was at the top of the mountain when he faced off with the Ace of New Japan, Hiroshi Tanahashi at Wrestle Kingdom 13 where the two would walk out on different paths as the Ace won the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship and Omega started a new journey with his friends.
“I feel like there’s some sort of unspoken kinship there, a little bit. Here we are, two guys that were just trying to do the best that we could, and at first, I’m sure the reasons were very selfish. For me, I just wanted to be the best I could be, I wanted to be the best in the world. I wanted to win championship belts. It was never about money. I’m sure if you ask Tana, it would be the same answer. It was probably never about money. We got to a point where then it not only about championship belts, it became about representing our companies. It became about what is our ideal wrestling style? What does wrestling mean to us? What kind of wrestling message do we want to convey to the world? When you put it all out there, when you’re speaking from the heart, when you’re wrestling from the heart and you’re trying to explain, ‘This is me, this is my message,’ I lost to Tanahashi. So I didn’t lose because I was the worse wrestler. I didn’t lose because I was weaker, because I was slower. I didn’t lose because I had a worse gameplan. I lost because my dreams weren’t big enough. I was still too selfish. – Omega said to NJPW.
Omega and Tanahashi are planning to team together to kick off the new year and the opponents they have in mind are the former AEW World Tag Team Champions, the Young Bucks, who turned their backs on Omega earlier this year.
H/t to Fightful for the transcription.
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