Kenny Omega: I Couldn’t Have Started My Journey With All Elite Wrestling Without Matthew And Nicholas Jackson

Kenny Omega looks back on the last five years.

Since AEW was built, it’s been Kenny Omega, the Young Bucks, Hangman Page, and Chris Jericho who have remained as the ones who started and stayed with All Elite Wrestling. A journey that Omega never thought would happen, but is grateful for Matthew and Nicholas Jackson because in the words of the former AEW World Champion, Omega, he couldn’t have done this without the Young Bucks by his side.

“I would never wish it upon anybody else in the world, trust me. I miss those days of rolling up to an arena with just my carry case, my little bag, that had my gear in it, and focusing on that match, that one performance. The performance was just about me. Instead, I’m at the arena days before, trying to figure out, ‘How’re we gonna make this work? How do we make this guy’s entrance work? How do we make sure all the entrance videos are formatted? How do we make sure the extras and the talent are fed? How do we make sure that they’re healthy? How do we make sure they we keep them healthy? What do we do if something goes wrong?’ There’s always, it’s a balancing act of a million things, and if you’re not 100% confident in your wrestling ability and if you’re not completely dedicated and passionate, not only about the success of what you do out there, but the success of the entire company and maybe even the state of professional wrestling, you can’t do it. It’s a terrible undertaking. As much as the Young Bucks have betrayed me as of recently, I couldn’t have done it without them. It was really a group effort. But Tanahashi now, doing it all by himself with the help of a lot of talented people here, I understand the burden that it weighs on him,” he said to  NJPW.

Omega is currently planning his comeback to the squared circle where he will wrestle at AEW x NJPW Wrestle Dynasty against a potential opponent in Gabe Kidd.

H/t to Fightful for the transcription.

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