10 Major AEW Stars Who Publicly Savaged The Company

4. Kenny Omega

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Kenny Omega has nicknamed himself the 'Best Bout Machine'. His gimmick is that he's the greatest professional wrestler on the planet; not only that, he's redefined what greatness actually is. He's an AEW EVP to this day, and while his importance in the management structure has diminished, since the original creative committee was disbanded across the holiday season of 2020, he's still a founding father of and representative of the company...

...which makes it all the more striking that he is on record as burying a certain creative choice.

Of course, since he's in AEW, this was automatically received as a knock against WWE.

He recently took to Twitter to put over his "secret" inter-gender match alongside Riho versus Kip Sabian and Penelope Ford. It was filmed on the Jericho cruise in February 2020 and was hidden away on Dark. The actual inter-gender violence was either blackly comedic or cathartic, depending on the dynamic, but the match contravened Warner best practises. Omega bemoaned other mixed tags with "weird "must tag out"" rules. "They suck so bad," Omega remarked.

So to which AEW match was he referring?

The last mixed tag of note that AEW promoted was Adam Cole and Dr. Britt Baker Vs. Orange Cassidy and Kris Statlander, which did adhere to those compromised rules. Perhaps Omega tweeted this to slowly advance his expected return programme with Cole, but it's funny and very of the time that he buried AEW and nobody actually noticed.

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