10 Best Storytellers In Wrestling Right Now

Kenny Omega alters the very rhythm of a professional wrestling match to tell a new breed of story. He is a new breed of athlete.

He is an explosive, propulsive machine of conditioning, stamina and unremitting force. He adopts the Terminator aesthetic for a reason. He isn't physically restricted to a methodical gear, nor a traditional sense of building and pacing, and as such uses the fighting gaming genre as inspiration to spam his V-Trigger and snap Dragon suplex with the arch disposition of a final boss. It's a spectacular approach to pro wrestling storytelling, one totally secure in its own internal logic. Ultimately, he's still wearing down his opponents to build to his finish; he is simply operating on a different wavelength.

Omega's approach to the death match was magnificent, and perfectly in-character; as the 'artist' his opponent built him up to be, of course he was creative and, yes, pretentious enough to design a gigantic barbed wire spider web with which to end Jon Moxley. This was the sculpture of a man who talks of his fights as if they are masterpieces. Like everything in that match - really, all of his matches - it wasn't just there. A loving attentiveness created a reason for its presence, and when one considers how much content and detail comprises an Omega match, the depths of his imagination reveal themselves as endless.

In his ongoing storyline with Hangman Page, he positions himself as the man who generates the momentum in his awesome, melee attacks, the exertion of which means Page gets the hot tag, and the glory. He's doing this from a place of friendship, but Page interprets this as a weakness. Doing everything, to Page, is not getting the job done.

It's tremendous, layered stuff that will one day create an unbearable conflict of a singles blow-off.