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Kenny Omega Legacy in New Japan Pro Wrestling

Kenny Omega Legacy in New Japan Pro Wrestling Kenny Omega has announced that he is leaving New Japan Pro Wrestling as of January 2019. Kenny Omega joined the promotion in 2010 and won the following titles while in New Japan Pro Wrestling G1 climax winner 2016 IWGP Heavyweight Champion IWGP Intercontinental Champion IWGP US Champion IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion X2 IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Champion IWGP Never Openweight 6 man tag team champion  X2 I want to have a look at Kenny Omega legacy on New Japan Pro Wrestling what he achieved there and the new ground he broke there. To me and in my opinion, Kenny Omega changed the world of New Japan Pro Wrestling. Kenny Omega brought New Japan Pro Wrestling to a Western Hemisphere audience and helped prople the reach of New Japan Pro Wrestling to a new audience along with breaking new ground for what a non Japanese wrestler could achieve in Japanese wrestling. Kenny Omega Changing Perceptions in NJPW Kenny Omega when he came ...

NJPW Wrestlekingdom 12 Preview Jan 4th 2018

New Japan Pro Wrestling Wrestlekingdom 12 Preview NJPW (New Japan Pro Wrestling) presents Wrestlekingdom 12 the biggest event of the year or the company.  Last year I actually went to Toyko and Saw Wrestlekingdom 11 Live on the Toyko Dome and got to see Kenny Omega vs Okada live.  You can see the video of my Toyko adventure by clicking the video below  Also you can read my guide to going to Wrestlekindom by clicking the link below  http://jonswrestleview.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/my-tripguide-to-japan-to-see-njpw.html This year is a double main event IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada defending against Tetsuya Naito and IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega defending against Chris Jericho in a no DQ match. To Watch New Japan Wrestlekingdom 12 Live subscribe to NJPW World - not only do you get all their live events, you also get past events going back to 1972 plus documentaries and an English language section o...

NJPW G1 Climax #G127 Wrestlers, Blocks and Matches Released

NJPW G1 Climax G127 Wrestlers, Blocks and Matches Released NJPW Pro Wrestling announced the wrestler competing in this year annual G1 Tournament and have split the wrestlers into Block A and Block B. A Block Hiroshi Tanahashi Togi Makabe Yuji Nagata Hirooki Goto Tomohiro Ishii YOSHI-HASHI Bad Luck Fale Tetsuya Naito Zack Sabre Jr. Kota Ibushi B Block Satoshi Kojima Juice Robinson Michael Elgin Kazuchika Okada Toru Yano Kenny Omega Tama Tonga EVIL SANADA Minoru Suzuki I laid out a scenario in my previous blog (which you can read here http://jonswrestleview.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/njpw-g1-climax-tournament-2017.html  where I thought that Okada and Omega could be the final Group A vs Group B match. However as you can see from the Blocks Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada have been drawn in Group B so will have a match against each other in G1 Tournament in will be a pivotal match I think in deciding the winner of the group. Also...