Kenny Omega

**Tyson Smith** (born October 16, 1983), better known by the ring name **Kenny Omega**, is a Canadian-born professional wrestler. Omega is an executive vice president of All Elite Wrestling (AEW), in which he also performs; he is a former AEW World Champion, as well as a former AEW World Tag Team Champion. He also performs in Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, where he was AAA Mega Champion, vacating the title due to injury and is a former IMPACT World Champion.

Omega is best known for his tenure in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, during which he held the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the IWGP Intercontinental Championship among other titles, and was the inaugural IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion.

He was a member of the **Bullet Club** stable, later serving as the group's leader. He became the first and only non-Japanese professional wrestler to win the G1 Climax, the promotion's premier tournament, when he defeated Hirooki Goto in the 2016 finals. Throughout his career, Omega has also performed as part of larger national and international promotions, such as Ring of Honor and IMPACT Wrestling, as well as independent promotions worldwide, including DDT Pro-Wrestling, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla.

Hailed as one of the best professional wrestlers in the world, Omega was named *Sports Illustrated*'s Wrestler of the Year in 2017, and topped *Pro Wrestling Illustrated*'s list of top 500 male wrestlers the following year. He has also attained the latter publication's Match of the Year distinction three times; one of those matches, in which Omega competed against Kazuchika Okada in a two out of three falls match at Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall in June 2018, received a seven-star rating from combat sports journalist Dave Meltzer, the highest rating Meltzer has ever awarded a professional wrestling match. He was inducted into the *Wrestling Observer Newsletter* Hall of Fame in 2020.

## In wrestling

* **Finishing moves**
	+ *Aoi Shoudou* (Cross-legged fisherman buster)
	+ *Croyt's Wrath* (Electric chair dropped into a bridging German suplex, sometimes from the second rope)
	+ *Katayoku no Tenshi* / *One-Winged Angel* (One-handed electric chair driver)

* **Signature moves**
	+ 450° splash
	+ Back-to-belly piledriver
	+ *Bloody Sunday (*Lifting single underhook brainbuster) – adopted from Prince Devitt
	+ *Dr. Wily Bomb* (Deadlift gutwrench sitout powerbomb)
	+ *EX Hadouken* (High-impact double palm thrust to a kneeling opponent's face, with theatrics)
	+ *Flash Man's Time Stopper* (Step-up enzuigiri, with theatrics)
	+ *Greetings from Winnipeg* (Low blow, with theatrics)
	+ *Hadouken* (Double palm thrust to the opponent's chest)
	+ *J-Driller* (Double underhook piledriver)
	+ *Kotaro Krusher* (Leapfrog transitioned into a one-handed bulldog)
	+ Missile dropkick
	+ Multiple dragon suplex variations
		- *Dragon Rebirth* (Twisting)
		- *Dragon Revolution* (Pumphandle flipping release half nelson)
		- *Dragon Rush* (Flipping release)
	+ *Rain Trigger* (Wrist lock transitioned into a short-arm bicycle high knee)
	+ Reverse frankensteiner
	+ *Rise of the Terminator* (Suicide somersault senton)
	+ Springboard moonsault
	+ *Styles Clash* (Back-to-belly mat slam) – adopted from AJ Styles
	+ *Tony Jaa* (Running double knee strike, with theatrics)
	+ *V-Trigger* (Running bicycle knee strike)
	+ *You Can't Escape* (Rolling fireman's carry slam followed by a moonsault from middle rope)

* **Managers**
	+ **Don Callis**

* **Nicknames**
	+ **"The Best Bout Machine"**
	+ **"By God"**
	+ "Canadian X"
	+ **"The Cleaner"**
	+ "The Cornerstone"
	+ "The Destiny Flower"
	+ **"The God of Professional Wrestling"**
	+ "King of the Anywhere Match"
	+ "The Master of the Dark Hadou"

* **Entrance themes**
	+ **Independent circuit**
		- "Attenzione" by Flashrider
		- "Cosmic Gate vs. Aquagen" by DJ Proz
		- "Mr. Roboto" by Styx
		- "DEVIL'S SKY by Yonosuke Kitamura
	+ **DDT Pro-Wrestling**
		- "Dr. Wily I (Mega Man 20th Anniversary Techno Version)" by Ogeretsu Kun, Manami Ietel and Yuukichan's Papa
		- "Dr. Wily Stage 1 – Omegaman Mix" by Rock-Men
		- "Air Man ga Taosenai" by Team.Nekokan (used as a member of Golden☆Lovers)
	+ **New Japan Pro-Wrestling**
		- "Dr. Wily I (Mega Man 20th Anniversary Techno Version)" by Ogeretsu Kun, Manami Ietel and Yuukichan's Papa
		- "Dr. Wily Stage 1 – Omegaman Mix" by Rock-Men
		- "27" by Breaking Point (used as a member of Golden☆Lovers)
		- "Air Man Ga Taosenai" by Team.Nekokan (used as a member of Golden☆Lovers)
		- "Last Chance Saloon" by Deviant & Naive Ted (used as a member of Bullet Club)
		- "Shot'Em" by [Q]Brick (used as a member of Bullet Club)
		- "DEVIL'S SKY" by Yonosuke Kitamura
		- "GOLDEN☆LOVERS" by Yonosuke Kitamura (used as a member of Golden☆Lovers)
	+ **Ring of Honor**
		- "Cosmic Gate vs. Aquagen" by DJ Proz
		- "Game Boy" by Frank Shelley
		- "DEVIL'S SKY" by Yonosuke Kitamura
	+ **All Elite Wrestling**
		- "DEVIL'S SKY" by Yonosuke Kitamura
		- **"Battle Cry"** by Little V
		- "Megalovania" by Toby Fox
		- "Packing Heat" by Mikey Rukus (used as a member of the Super Elite)
		- **"Carry On Wayward Son"** by Kansas (used as a member of the Elite)
	+ **Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide**
		- "Battle Cry" (Instrumental) by Little V
	+ **IMPACT Wrestling**
		- "Battle Cry" by Little V

## Championships and accomplishments

* **4 Front Wrestling**
	+ 4FW Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
* **All Elite Wrestling**
	+ AEW World Championship (1 time)
	+ AEW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Adam Page
	+ AEW World Trios Championship (2 times, current) – with Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson
	+ AEW World Championship Eliminator Tournament (2020)
	+ AEW Dynamite Awards
		- Bleacher Report PPV Moment of the Year (2021) – with The Elite vs. The Inner Circle (Double or Nothing)
		- Biggest WTF Moment (2021) – Winning the AEW World Championship and Walking Out of AEW (Winter Is Coming)
* **All Japan Pro-Wrestling**
	+ World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
* **Canadian Wrestling's Elite**
	+ CWE Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Danny Duggan
* **Canadian Wrestling Federation**
	+ CWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
* **CBS Sports**
	+ Match of the Year (2018) – vs. Kazuchika Okada (Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall)
* **DDT Pro-Wrestling**
	+ DDT Extreme Division Championship (1 time)
	+ KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Gota Ihashi and Kota Ibushi (1), and Daisuke Sasaki and Kota Ibushi (1)
	+ KO-D Openweight Championship (1 time)
	+ KO-D Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Kota Ibushi (2) and Michael Nakazawa (1)
	+ Nihonkai Six Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mr. #6 and Riho
	+ King of DDT Tournament (2012)
	+ Best Match Award (2012) – vs. Kota Ibushi (August 18)
* **IMPACT Wrestling**
	+ IMPACT Unified World Championship (1 time)
* **Japan Indie Awards**
	+ Best Bout Award (2008) – vs. Kota Ibushi (Beer Garden Pro Wrestling)
	+ Best Bout Award (2012) – vs. Kota Ibushi (Budokan Peter Pan)
	+ Best Bout Award (2014) – with Kota Ibushi vs. Konosuke Takeshita and Tetsuya Endo (Dramatic General Election)
* **Jersey All Pro Wrestling**
	+ JAPW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
	+ JAPW Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
* **Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide**
	+ AAA Mega Championship (1 time)
* **New Japan Pro-Wrestling**
	+ IWGP Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
	+ IWGP Intercontinental Championship (1 time)
	+ IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
	+ IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Kota Ibushi
	+ IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time, inaugural)
	+ NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson
	+ G1 Climax (2016)
	+ IWGP United States Championship Tournament (2017)
	+ New Japan Pro-Wrestling Best Bout (2016) – vs. Tetsuya Naito (G1 Climax 26)
	+ New Japan Pro-Wrestling Best Bout (2017) – vs. Kazuchika Okada (Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall)
	+ New Japan Pro-Wrestling MVP (2017)
* ***Nikkan Sports***
	+ Match of the Year Award (2016) – vs. Tetsuya Naito (G1 Climax 26)
	+ Match of the Year Award (2017) – vs. Kazuchika Okada (Wrestle Kingdom 11)
	+ Match of the Year Award (2018) – vs. Kazuchika Okada (Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall)
	+ Best Tag Team Award (2010) – with Kota Ibushi
* **Premier Championship Wrestling**
	+ NWA Canadian X-Division Championship (1 time, inaugural)
	+ PCW Heavyweight Championship (4 times)
	+ PCW Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Rawskillz (1) and Chris Stevens (1)
	+ Premier Cup (2005, 2007)
* **Pro Wrestling Guerrilla**
	+ PWG World Championship (1 time)
	+ Battle of Los Angeles (2009)
* ***Pro Wrestling Illustrated***
	+ Ranked **#1** of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the *PWI 500* in 2018
	+ Ranked **#2** of the top 50 tag teams in the *PWI Tag Team 50* in 2020 – with Adam Page
	+ Match of the Year (2017) – vs. Kazuchika Okada (Wrestle Kingdom 11)
	+ Match of the Year (2018) – vs. Kazuchika Okada (Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall)
	+ Match of the Year (2020) – with Adam Page vs. The Young Bucks (AEW Revolution)
	+ Feud of the Year (2017) – vs. Kazuchika Okada
	+ Feud of the Decade (2010s) – vs. Kazuchika Okada
* **Ring of Honor**
	+ Feud of the Year (2018) – vs. Cody
* **River City Wrestling**
	+ CWE Canadian Unified Junior Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
* **SoCal Uncensored**
	+ Match of the Year (2017) – vs. Tomohiro Ishii (G1 Special in USA)
	+ Match of the Year (2018) – with Kota Ibushi vs. The Young Bucks (Strong Style Evolved)
* ***Sports Illustrated***
	+ Wrestler of the Year (2017)
* ***Tokyo Sports***
	+ Best Bout Award (2010) – with Kota Ibushi vs. Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi (Destruction '10)
	+ Best Bout Award (2017) – vs. Kazuchika Okada (Wrestle Kingdom 11)
	+ Best Bout Award (2018) – vs. Kazuchika Okada (Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall)
	+ Technique Award (2016)
* **Top Rope Championship Wrestling**
	+ TRCW Tag Team Championships (1 time) – with Ronnie Attitude
* ***Weekly Pro Wrestling***
	+ Best Bout Award (2010) – with Kota Ibushi vs. Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi (Destruction '10)
	+ Best Bout Award (2016) – vs. Tetsuya Naito (G1 Climax 26)
	+ Best Bout Award (2017) – vs. Kazuchika Okada (Wrestle Kingdom 11)
	+ Best Foreigner Award (2016–2018)
	+ Best Tag Team Award (2010) – with Kota Ibushi
* ***Wrestling Observer Newsletter***
	+ Best Wrestling Maneuver (2016–2018, 2020) – *One-Winged Angel*
	+ Feud of the Year (2017) – vs. Kazuchika Okada
	+ Feud of the Year (2021) – vs. Adam Page
	+ Japan MVP (2018)
	+ Most Outstanding Wrestler (2018, 2020)
	+ Pro Wrestling Match of the Year (2017) – vs. Kazuchika Okada (Wrestle Kingdom 11)
	+ Pro Wrestling Match of the Year (2018) – vs. Kazuchika Okada (Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall)
	+ Pro Wrestling Match of the Year (2020) – with Adam Page vs. The Young Bucks (Revolution)
	+ Wrestler of the Year (2018, 2021)
	+ United States/Canada MVP (2021)
	+ *Wrestling Observer Newsletter* Hall of Fame
		- Class of 2020