Kenny Omega believes Forbidden Door will be Will Ospreay‘s last chance to capture the IWGP United States Championship.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Kenny Omega recently sat down with Jay Onrait of TSN to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked what brought him back to New Japan Pro-Wrestling earlier this year, Omega believes it came down to having unfinished business with the promotion.
“I feel there was some unfinished business,” Kenny Omega said. “I sort of left the company in the state of needing people to fill my shoes. I had assumed a lot of responsibility within that promotion. I had pretty much wrestled in most, or if not all, of the big matches on my way out of the door as New Japan, and I knew that if I had left, the last thing I would want was for the company to be in a bad position with someone not ready to assume that main event role.
“And I thought that I had two likely candidates that could hold the reins, the fort together and put forth a very unique but New Japan-worthy effort in Switchblade [Jay White] and Will Ospreay. And as someone who had made Japan my home and for something that was so important to me, being New Japan, I had always kind of kept up with the things while I was even doing AEW, and I just sort of felt like they weren’t doing enough, and maybe they needed a trial by fire and to see by example, one more time what it is that I’m asking them what is required from them to be the face of the company, to be the driving force behind the company.
“So I felt it was very important for me to go back to that promotion and challenge for a belt. It just so happens that I won the belt, and now things are back in control as if it’s 2018 all over again. So I think Will Ospreay, who has certainly learned a lot, grown a lot, developed a lot. He’s coming in for blood, wants revenge, and this time it’s going to be on my home soil; Canadian soil. So you’re gonna see a little bit of taste in Japan, my second home, and we’re going to be fighting in my first home. I think it’s going to be something very special for fans that haven’t had a chance to see us perform live for a very long time.”
When asked about Will Ospreay’s hatred for Canada, Omega isn’t sure if his beef is with the country as much as it is about the people living in it.
“I really don’t understand his beef with Canada. Perhaps it’s more Canadian people, and I think every country has some despicable people living within it,” Kenny Omega said. “Maybe I’m one of them? Perhaps the business has clouded my soul a little bit and darkened my heart. I’m not sure. I’m just here being me.
“What’s most important about all that is I still believe deep down that I’m probably the best wrestler and best representative on a worldwide scale to professional wrestling. So love me or not, hate me or not, I’m the benchmark. I know that I’m the benchmark, so Will has to step up his game. And he has to show something much different than what he showed a Tokyo Dome.
“Because now we’re in Canada, and now this is probably going to be his last chance to win his belt back. If he doesn’t, I really have no obligation to go back to Japan either, as much as I’d like to. So they just may lose one of their most prized possessions for an undisclosed amount of time. So it’s a very big match for Will.”
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