10 Most Humiliating Wrestling Moves

It's no wonder that Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks are bound to one another; they share the exact influences, flair for melodrama, twist-heavy approach to match layouts, and mischievous brand of humour.

Kenny Omega is a great, great d*ckhead when he wants to be. The look on his face when he squashed Sonny Kiss was sublime, like it was the easiest and most certain thing he'd ever done, a boring foregone conclusion, was such tremendous character work. He is delightfully, unconscionably cruel when the occasion demands it. This is a man so gifted at the dark arts of being an ar*ehole that, when doing a Being The Elite bit taking the piss out of his apparent decline, he actually killed another man's aura. Some tall, lanky guy.

During the 2018 G1 Climax, Omega knew his role as the newly minted IWGP Heavyweight champion. He had to make a challenger, and when Gedo selected Tomohiro Ishii, Omega got the fans further behind a man who requires no assistance in doing that: very early in the match, as both men approached one another tentatively, Omega played Ishii's head like a bongo.

This incredible Simpsons reference was all the better given how deeply ill-advised it was to embarrass and thus infuriate a man of Ishii's defiant, indefatigable violence. Ishii went on to win a gruesome scorcher of a match, an absolute all-timer, and the fans were desperate for that comeuppance - so desperate, in fact, that it's depressing watching it back knowing that the next NJPW match you watch will play in front of a clap crowd.