A top AEW Champion has joined forces with Don Callis.
In less than a month, Kenny Omega is all set to face to current Continental Champion Kazuchika Okada at All In 2025 in a title unification match. However, a few days ago, before their long-awaited match, Okada launched an attack on Omega, leaving him completely bloodied.
The ambush left The Cleaner bleeding from his mouth, and he had to be hospitalized. Now, tonight on the June 21 episode of Collision, Omega’s former manager Don Callis introduced Kazuchika Okada as the brand new member of his family. Leveling up the mental games ahead of their highly anticipated bout, Okada has strengthened his arsenal, while Omega still recovers from the painful attack on him.
A significant history exists between Omega and Okada in NJPW, with multiple matches culminating in a final singles contest in 2018.
AEW EVP Kenny Omega Taught Swerve Strickland An Important Lesson
A few months ago, while speaking to Fightful, former AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland revealed how EVP Kenny Omega once taught him an important lesson.
“I remember he gave me huge compliments on a tag match that I had. It was one of the tag matches, it was on Rampage that you would probably never guess or never think that was the match that he gave me the thumbs up for. Ever since then I was like, ‘Oh, wow, okay.’ That’s where it showed to me, especially where Kenny is, not just in wrestling but for our company.
Every performance is a moment to capture something.You don’t take any type of like match, no matter where—on a Rampage, Ring of Honor, Collision, or when we had Dark—every opportunity is an opportunity to wipe something beforehand and start anew and I feel like that’s where I learned that lesson with Kenny. He’s like, ‘Wow, boom, now I understand this guy.’ It was like, ‘That was the performance you saw? That one?’ He’s like, ‘Yep, that was the one.’So that goes to show you, there’s things that you see on screen that other people are truly appreciating and looking for that you wouldn’t know.
So go out there, give it your best no matter who your opponent is, who you’re with, no matter what hour you go on on the night. No matter your opponent, where you’re tagged, where you fit in. Every opportunity is a true chance to gain something or the biggest respect out of whoever’s watching. You never know. For Kenny to come out of his way to tell me that, huge honor, huge respect from him, and for him to have me in such high regard with all the talent that’s in here is even better. That’s incredible.”
In other news: Harley Cameron has undergone a successful surgery.