Revisiting The Shield's WWE History. 15 minutes of the match saw Ospreay use 0 offence. Allin then hit a great-looking Code Red followed by two Coffin Drops for the win. Bad Luck Fale, Kenny Omega & Marty Scurll vs. Gedo, Kazuchika Okada & Will Ospreay. This website uses cookies. Fans believe that despite Wrestle Kingdom being the first major pay-per-view of the year, the match between Omega and Will Ospreay has already bagged the award for the best wrestling match of 2023. See more company credits at IMDbPro. WrestleMania 38 | Night 1. During the match they kept cutting back to Zayn, Heyman, and Reigns watching in the locker room. Wrestle Kingdom 17 provided many memorable moments including the debut of Mercedes Mone, but it'll forever be remembered for the gripping clash between Will Ospreay and Kenny Omega. See for more information. He works harder, it's his thing, that's his fantasy.
Cultaholic Wrestling. Omega and Ospreay made it clear many times that they are not friends and don't care to be in the same room. Kenny Omega's next big match is next week on Dynamite when he teams up with The Young Bucks to take on The Death Triangle for the AEW Trios Championship in the final match in their Best-of-Seven Series. 29 | John Cena Is Back. The finish saw Omega hit the Kamigoye in tribute to Kota Ibushi followed by a One Winged Angel for the victory.
Highlights can be found below. WWE SmackDown, January 6. This match was just the beginning of the buildup to the big showdown. Omega was the first-ever IWGP US Champion and now a two-time IWGP US Champion. A V-Trigger to the back of the skull should have ended it, but instead, Omega lifted Ospreay to the top rope and hit an Avalanche Croyt's Wrath German suplex. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Ospreay's Wrestle Kingdom Comparisons. Like I said, it's an NBA dunk contest. This was the semi-main event of Wrestle Kingdom, New Japan Pro-Wrestling's annual January 4 Tokyo Dome show, and was a dream match between the previous New Japan gaijin ace Omega and the man who has taken on that role since he left to help form AEW, Will Ospreay.
Omega still hit a Croyt's Wrath and a Top Rope DDT onto the exposed turnbuckle at Wrestle Kingdom, though. Kenny Omega vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi – NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 13. Their first match against each other was a Pro Wrestling Guerrilla encounter from December 2015, back when they were both more high-flying junior heavyweights. After the match was over, Omega alluded to this by saying that 364 days of the year, Ospreay was the better wrestler. And then Ospreay rolled out to the floor and the seconds and stooges started distracting the referee and making noise so that Ospreay could get color for a while. Add a plot in your language. Sheamus was doing fine, getting a near-fall with a Brogue Kick and sending the Usos to the floor, hitting a double axehandle on them both, only to fall to an assisted roll-up by the Usos. Like Jack Nicholson in The Shining. Currently, every AEW title is around the waist of a homegrown AEW talent rather than an ex-WWE import (outside of one-third of the trios titles being held by Pac, who isn't a wrestler who screams "Stamford"). By the luck of idiots and fools, they didn't paralyze themselves. McIntyre hit an impressive no-hand flip tope and a Claymore for a pin, which was barely broken up by Jimmy.
One of the main events of today's Wrestle Kingdom 17 was Kenny Omega challenging Will Osperaey for the IWGP United States Championship. Reversals indicate back and forth, so with the 7 minutes of dominance, the rest must have been. Ospreay then hit possibly his most disgusting Hidden Blade ever with a running elbow strike to Omega's face that sounded like a shotgun blast.
We then got Ospreay almost doing a Jerry Lawler–style dropping of the strap/hulk-up after catching a knee strike. So what is next for these two men? This item is unframed. Chekhov's exposed turnbuckle would come back to bite him moments later, though, as Allin countered a Joe choke by driving his head into the metal bolt. And then Kenny got the chance to do the twinkle toes routine, where he does the Canterbury prancing into the ropes on both sides and does a big, graceful dive.
Can you say that anything he's ever said that has been reported in public would contradict that thought? It also highlights the sheer costliness of Ospreay's 7 minute flatline. Kickoff: KOPW 2023 Qualifier New Japan Ranbo. The Lucha Brothers – AEW All Out 2019. Protective coating, resist scratching, and spillages. It was worth noting that AEW never mentioned the upcoming match on Dynamite or Rampage. It looked totally reckless; Joe just tossed him with little guidance to where he would actually land, and it looked way nastier than a more guided bump. Subscribe: Patreon: Discord:
NJPW World TV Title: Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Ren Narita. That's a huge, huge home run. You can click here for backstage news on plans for the feud. "I would say before the Best of Seven series and the Tokyo Dome I was feeling pretty good. Omega hadn't returned to Japan since starting in AEW in 2019 and was hurt during last year's joint AEW-NJPW Forbidden Door pay-per-view, a show which may have had this match on it. Sign up for Paramount+ by clicking here. Omega was able to block an OsCutter on the ring apron and knock Ospreay to the floor. This was a rematch of their great fight from several weeks ago, which ended with Joe giving Allin a disgusting ura nage on the exposed wheel trucks of Allin's skateboard.
UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje (2022). It will be interesting to see if any future matches between Ospreay and Omega are able to surpass the 6. Hiromu Takahashi vs. Taiji Ishimori – NJPW Best of the Super Juniors 2018. Then we had a great backstage segment in which it looked like Reigns might take Zayn out fishing like Fredo Corleone, but instead apologized to Zayn for losing his temper and set up Zayn vs. Owens for this week on SmackDown. As of this writing, 2023 isn't even four days old. Allin drilled Joe from behind with a tope, and then slammed him in the back multiple times with his skateboard.
How are they going to follow it? Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on these topics with his thoughts. You can see on his face when he gets in and he does the poses, the whole thing, this I think is what he thinks he is and has always wanted to be is a character in a cool video game with a cool outfit where he does the finger pointing and the gesturing. Like Omega, he started as a junior heavyweight in New Japan, capturing the Best of the Super Juniors tournament title in 2016 and holding the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship three times. We just let you think that for a couple of weeks (laughs).