10 Most Creative Wrestlers On The Planet Right Now

4. Kenny Omega

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Kenny Omega wrestles on a higher psychological frequency than the rest of the industry.

Creativity can incorporate entrepreneurial spirit, or the sprint to capture buzz in a world in which attention is stretched harder than one of Stu Hart's kids, but in the meat of a match, the detail, where it counts, there are none more creative than Kenny Omega.

At Revolution, in the greatest tag team match of all time, Omega kicked out of the Bucks' disrespectful theft of the Golden Trigger. Fury compelled him to do so at one. This was an awesome, badass spot to those unfamiliar with the depth of the story, but to those obsessed with the history of the Elite, it built very gradually towards Kenny Omega Vs. Hangman Page. Omega was more loyal to his former tag team partner than his own while he was teaming with him. There are unparalleled levels to Omega's work. He builds sequels and next chapters within matches, and they're all classics.

He is also an incredibly skilled comedy wrestler, and thus clearly had a significant hand in laying out that sensational Street Fight on Dynamite the other week, a match that drew huge acclaim for nailing the correct tone wrestling - not that it should be going ahead - must strike to be not be totally depressing amid this crisis.

And if you cry-laugh emoji with "Yeah but he can't book a Women's division!", it was his idea to turn...

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