There’s One Wrestling Legend Who Isn’t Impressed With Kenny Omega

Since January 4th, you’ve certainly heard a lot of praise for Kenny Omega’s main event match against IWGP Heavyweight Champion, Kazuchika Okada. There’s one wrestling legend who wasn’t impressed, however.

If you’ve spent any time listening to the Jim Cornette Experience, it should come as little surprise that Cornette has problems with the new hotshot all the young wrestling fans love. Cornette has a lengthy history in pro wrestling as a manager, promoter, and booker, and his preferences run deep in the old-school.

He tends to have a lengthy and profane rant for anything in the world of wrestling that doesn’t meet his standards. Wrestle Kingdom was no exception.

“As far as I’m concerned, Kenny Omega should do the motion-capture deal for video games that he is so infatuated with, but it wasn’t a five-star pro wrestling match much less a six-star pro wrestling match,” said Cornette. “And I’m sorry! I’m f–king sorry! But it was an exhibition of guys doing moves. I mean, it was wonderful. The first 10 minutes, I was dying. They fought on the floor forever without being counted out and I jotted down some things. They’d do a big move and then they’d lay around forever. They sold so much and everybody said, ‘oh, Cornette, you say don’t sell at all!’ Well, some people don’t sell at all and they sold so much. They knew they were going to go long because long equals classic, but they sold so much they were in slo-mo. Omega is a great athlete. He still has the stupid facial expressions. Calm down on The Ultimate Warrior f–king s–t and anything that reminds me of The Ultimate Warrior instantly makes me mad because he was the worst pushed wrestler in a major promotion ever. It was a really good 20-minute match that lasted 45 minutes.”

Cornette does have some existing issues with Omega for his role in some less than serious wrestling expositions. “Of course, he had those matches with the blow-up doll and f–king nine year old girl. I’m not even kidding, folks. If you’re just listening to The Experience for the first time, the f–king guy had competitive matches in front of ticket-purchasing patrons in Japan with a blow-up doll and a nine year old little girl.”

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More notable are Cornette’s claims of Omega faking a serious foot injury to get out of an ROH booking. “Omega worked in Japan that weekend,” said Cornette, “so he didn’t even have the f–king guts or ability in him to be honest with a guy that had booked him, a company that had booked him early in his career to say, ‘I’ve got a booking in Japan – that’s my priority,’ which would have been understood. But instead, he lied and sent this bogus f–king picture of somebody else’s f–king foot. Where do you get that? I don’t even know. And so that’s why he didn’t show up at Ring Of Honor anymore, because he was written off because he was a lying sack of s–t that no-showed a booking under false pretenses instead of being honest.”

Even if they don’t agree with the six star assessment, most in the wrestling business considered Omega vs Okada an excellent match. The buzz generated–and Omega’s mysterious comments following the event–have led to a lot of speculation on a potential spot in WWE. Triple H recently commented on those rumors.

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(Thanks to WrestlingInc for the transcript.)