{"id":149805,"date":"2022-11-23T16:04:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T22:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=149805"},"modified":"2022-11-23T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T21:12:00","slug":"kenny-omega-comments-on-new-japan-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/11\/23\/kenny-omega-comments-on-new-japan-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Omega comments on New Japan return"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3860692618\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Kenny Omega says that New Japan Pro Wrestling is still his home.<\/p>\n<p>Omega spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wrestling\/2022\/11\/23\/kenny-omega-young-bucks-returns-aew-stunning-manner-full-gear\">Sports Illustrated<\/a> on his upcoming match against Will Ospreay at New Japan Pro Wrestling&#8217;s Wrestle Kingdom 17 event on January 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m returning to New Japan as an ambassador of AEW,\u201d says Omega. \u201cI\u2019m returning to New Japan as an ambassador of pro wrestling. I\u2019m also returning home. I left to start this new, exciting opportunity, but it\u2019s still home. Now the things Will can do are things I cannot. He\u2019s an athletic phenom. But as finely tuned as he is physically, he still hasn\u2019t doesn\u2019t have the knowledge or experience. I pushed my own physical boundaries in All Japan and DDT, but that\u2019s not what I\u2019m known for. My mind is my greatest asset, not my athleticism. That\u2019s what\u2019s allowed [Hiroshi] Tanahashi to have such a long and flavorful career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI needed someone to take my place in New Japan, I wanted someone to take my place\u2013and it was Will, Jay [White], and [Kota] Ibushi. Will is the only one to have a problem with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Omega was attacked by Ospreay and other members of United Empire at the AEW and NJPW Forbidden Door PPV event over the summer. The two will collide one-on-one with Ospreay&#8217;s IWGP United States Championship on the line.<\/p>\n<p>Wrestle Kingdom 17 takes place from inside the Tokyo Dome. Other matches on the show include a IWGP World Heavyweight Championship showdown between Jay White and Kazuchika Okada.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/11\/23\/kenny-omega-says-he-knew-he-needed-a-special-return\/\">Kenny Omega says he and Young Bucks knew they had to make AEW return \u201cspecial\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1720791001\"><div id=\"pwtor-3044783658\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Kenny Omega says that New Japan Pro Wrestling is still his home. Omega spoke with Sports Illustrated on his upcoming match against Will Ospreay at New Japan Pro Wrestling&#8217;s Wrestle Kingdom 17 event on January <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/11\/23\/kenny-omega-comments-on-new-japan-return\/\" title=\"Kenny Omega comments on New Japan return\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":118777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6163,2,6],"tags":[6121,306,2149],"class_list":["post-149805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_japan","tag-aew","tag-kenny-omega","tag-new-japan-pro-wrestling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2021\/05\/NJPW-Logo.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149806,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149805\/revisions\/149806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}