Throughout a latest interview with TalkSPORT, Kenny Omega commented on the Japanese bracket within the Ladies’s Title Eliminator Match, Hikaru Shida’s work with it, and extra. You may take a look at some highlights from the interview under:
On his love of joshi wrestling: “I attempted to observe simply as a lot joshi wrestling as I might once I was staying over in Japan for the last decade that I used to be there within the nation. I’ve mentioned in a number of interviews, I actually do credit score joshis for bringing my love again to skilled wrestling once I was in a drought on the lookout for issues that make me really feel one thing. To have the ability to not solely have a few of the athletes concerned within the event that had been in that point interval [he was in Japan] having killer matches like Emi Sakura, Aja Kong and Ryo Mizunami, we’ve bought some new up and comers too like Yuka Sakazaki and Maki Itoh who clearly have an actual vibrant future on the earth {of professional} wrestling. They’re going about issues the appropriate means. Each time you see them, they’re including one thing to their arsenal, they’re bettering.
For me, on AEW – and I’d seen it on TJPW, I can’t lie [laughs] – it was superior to see Yuka Sakazaki debut her Firebird Splash, or the Magical Woman splash. To provide these ladies a chance and for them to not solely reply the decision however overdeliver… I do know they’re representing AEW so possibly there’s a little little bit of bias, however for me to observe that stay stream on Monday and simply be capable of take all of it in as everybody else was taking it in stay, I had only a large smile on my face from ear-to-ear.”
On Hikaru Shida placing the Japanese aspect of the event collectively: “I loved each minute of it. Each match had one thing distinctive to supply and I couldn’t have been extra pleased with them and couldn’t have been extra pleased with Hikaru Shida, really. She actually went the additional mile and put all of it collectively herself in Japan. This stuff don’t occur out of skinny air. She actually needed to function the ladies wrestlers extra, the women caught in Japan and have a few of the ladies that she has labored with when she was doing freelance work. So we bought a few of the different freelancers like Veny, for instance. She wrestles in Japan as Asuka. And Veny completely killed it in opposition to Emi Sakura. Simply an unbelievable match. It gave individuals a style of what they’re lacking out on, simply what they’re lacking out out on the earth. It’s unlucky you’ll be able to’t you’ll be able to’t see all the very best stuff on a regular basis each week, however I felt extraordinarily proud to host one thing as a means for individuals to see what goes on in that world of joshi and the way our athletes are doing as properly.”
On AEW doubtlessly signing a few of the joshi expertise: “All I can say given this world local weather we’re in proper now, it’s a really attempting time and really troublesome to make any actual guarantees, I don’t need individuals to carry their breath. But when I had my means and I might manipulate international journey schedules the best way that I needed to [laughs] I feel it will most likely be a secure guess that you simply’re going to see a couple of of those ladies again on AEW tv. And that’s undoubtedly all the time going to be my first curiosity; getting these women featured, getting extra TV time for our athletes. So I’m simply so completely satisfied that the event is opening quite a lot of peoples eyes.”
