10 Times A Wrestler Went On An Insane Streak Of Matches
4. Kenny Omega's 2020
Jesus H. Tap-dancing F*cking Christ, the expectations Kenny Omega has created for himself.
He captured the World Tag Team Championship alongside Hangman Page in a fantastic match opposite SCU on January 21, the beats in which were plotted perfectly to tell a story that, were a true personal connection there, Omega and Page would be recognised as among the greatest tag teams ever. This compelling dynamic informs an endless tension - there's a professional chemistry that their differences will tear apart, to incredible pathos - that has informed a spree of tremendous and inherently dramatically layered matches.
Omega has worked and laid out several blistering multi-man tag team bouts, and fused the Iron Man match with his classic NJPW epic in a frighteningly awesome singles war with PAC.
He has worked a superb range of tag team matches - from the balletic insanity of the February 19 Lucha Bros. war, to the seminal, unprecedented emotion texture of Revolution's all-time classic - and best adapted to this new, grim normal.
Omega worked a gritty war of sportsmanship with Trent that fell apart, deliberately and perfectly, to make sense of the stripped-back skeleton crew production in QT Marshall's gym. In stark, essential contrast, he imported the genuine hilarity and absurdity from his early years to inform the genius levity of Stadium Stampede.
Omega's work in 2020 was beautiful reward for the details geek deeply invested in his mythology; he will furiously stamp on Kazarian for dropping Hangman Page on his neck, but he won't use Page's Buckshot to finish a match. He left his wrestling heart in Japan, and at Revolution, we grasped, to exhilarating and emotional effect, the metaphor.