10 Wrestlers Who Got Pissed Off At Critics
7. Kenny Omega
If you're going to respond to critics, in a manner in which you're not not pissed off, at least have the decency to be funny or interesting about it.
Enter Kenny Omega.
Ahead of the AEW Dynamite launch, in a blurry interview, he claimed that the NXT roster was only capable of working a dark match on his show. This was obvious and insincere hyperbole - Adam Cole, for one, is a man Omega respects a great deal - consistent with his Best Bout Machine persona. It was lost on NXT's Dominick Dijakovic, who spat his dummy.
He mentioned that he once worked a better match on a PWG show than Omega which, while true, was a bit like Scotty 2 Hotty claiming to be better than The Rock because the Backlash 2000 Light Heavyweight Title match was better than the main event.
But then, Omega is (rightly) abundant in self-confidence - his persona is the Best Bout Machine - so this inspired much debate about the extent to which he believed it, which one gathers was its express purpose. However, the interview did follow murmurs, resulting from two consecutive, mere **** performances across Double Or Nothing and Fight For The Fallen, that Omega had peaked.
After orchestrating a minor talking point, he addressed it on Being The Elite.
And it was absolutely great. He further played with the fiction, claiming he was speaking in character, before speaking out of it when the camera "cut" on his apology.
After a rant that, if not defensive, certainly defended his position, he rechristened Dijakovic 'Donovan D*ckhead'. This was hilarious, and inspired, because he knew damn well that Keith Lee's mate has the most difficult name of any wrestler to remember, because they keep changing it, or spell.
He knew it would stick.