Kenny Omega has been one of the key figures in AEW since the beginning, but he took some time off due to injury after he dropped the AEW World Championship to Adam Page at Full Gear in November of 2022. Omega made his return to AEW in August of 2022, but he was suspended a few weeks later when The Elite got into a physical altercation with CM Punk after the All Out pay-per-view.
During a recent appearance on The Sessions with Renee Paquette, Kenny Omega talked about what the atmosphere was like when he returned to the company and he acknowledged that that things felt strange.
“I was happy that we were moving forward in a direction that didn’t necessarily require me. I felt that now was a good time to get the stuff taken care of. Then I felt like, eight months had passed and it was time to come back and it was kind of like the GIF of the dude walking in with the pizza boxes and the whole room was on fire. I didn’t get it. What’s with this strange atmosphere? What’s with this strange aura? Why does something feel so ominous right now? I didn’t know and I couldn’t figure it out.
Next thing you knew, there was more stuff happening. It’s so surreal because it’s almost like it never happened. It happened, of course it happened. I hadn’t even gotten familiar, or unfamiliar, with my surroundings backstage with the new AEW because there were new people in the locker room. A lot happened in eight months. To come back and see old faces and be like, ‘Hey,’ but then feel this eerie, to feel like I was in Eerie, Indiana for a second.
Then, stranger things started happening and I was like, ‘Oh man, what do I do? This isn’t right. Someone needs to be the voice of reason. This is silly.’ Things fell off the rails and we were involved in a very silly situation that people are probably going to be talking about for months and possibly years to come, I don’t know.”
H/T Fightful
