10 Booking Steps For Kenny Omega As IWGP Heavyweight Champion

2. End Of The Affair

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Rising tensions between The Golden Lovers will boil over following Kenny's rejection of Kota's help in defeating Tetsuya Naito at Wrestling Dontaku 2019.

Inconsolable despite the insistence of The Young Bucks that Omega just wanted to win his way, Kota's rationale will be flooded with resentment from the Wrestle Kingdom loss, and he'll make it clear to both Matt and Nick Jackson that the quartet can no longer continue with the deep-rooted hurt threatening to tear them apart from the inside.

Without acknowledging Omega following the Naito win, he'll leave the arena and reconsider his entire New Japan future. The questions he'd asked himself after the Wrestle Kingdom loss weren't really answered staying by Kenny's side, and the hurt he'd experienced by the IWGP Champion's rejection left him unsure of their entire relationship.

Omega too will be devastated by the departure. His job as Champion will be to march on regardless, but the closing moments of the Naito clash won't be spent worrying about the man backstage, more the man staring him down in the ring. Kazuchika Okada's arrival during Omega's show-closing address will set the table for their third Dominion meeting and fifth overall. Can the best get better?

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