AEW superstar and current triple-world champion Kenny Omega took to Twitter earlier today to clarify a story about why legendary wrestling personality, Jim Cornette, has disliked him so much as it stems back to a time Omega missed a ROH show that Cornette booked back in 2010.
The story is that the Cleaner decided not to work a ROH event due to an ankle injury, and instead traveled to Japan to attend the Tokyo Sports Awards, where he won best bout for a match he had in the Japanese indie federation DDT Pro.
Omega writes, “This is a great story so I’ll tell it one more time. I’d hurt my ankle and had to take 3 weeks off. The appearance I left for in Japan (before said ROH show) was an awards ceremony.I won my first Tokyo Sports Best Bout award.I didn’t wrestle.Important details are always changed.” When a fan asked him why he decided to attend an awards show over wrestle he wrote back, “Bruh, these are the most prestigious awards in wrestling. To win while I was repping DDT, a much smaller indy company, while being a junior heavyweight… Umm, yeah, it meant a lot to me.”
See the exchange below.
This is a great story so I’ll tell it one more time. I’d hurt my ankle and had to take 3 weeks off. The appearance I left for in Japan (before said ROH show) was an awards ceremony.I won my first Tokyo Sports Best Bout award.I didn’t wrestle.Important details are always changed. https://t.co/iA9Eb8tKlw
— Kenny Omega (@KennyOmegamanX) August 1, 2021
Bruh, these are the most prestigious awards in wrestling. To win while I was repping DDT, a much smaller indy company, while being a junior heavyweight… Umm, yeah, it meant a lot to me.
— Kenny Omega (@KennyOmegamanX) August 1, 2021
