NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17
Jan 4th 2023
Tokyo Dome, Tokyo
IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship: Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay (c)
The story of this is that Will's overaggressiveness and mistakes led to Kenny just beating the shit out of him. He works the back in real brutal fashion with stomps and backbreakers. He even shows his dick side by ripping off one of the corner turnbuckles just to kick him back-first into it. The problem is he's wrestling Will, who will sell for 13% before saying fuck and just going on with all his springboard and flip counter movers, which sure looks cool, but if a motherfucker is working your back, I don't want to see a fuckin handstand springboard into a kicks and shit. But I will say theirs a point in the match where Kenny puts him underneath a table and hits an awesome-looking doublestomp, breaking the table over Will's back, but as Kenny goes to slide back into the ring, he just says fuckin and just begins throwing hands fuckin' Kenny's shit up before suplexing him over the back of the broken table. Will hits a few big moves for near falls but once he realizes those were not going to get it down, he turns back into Dick Ospreay and just tries to hurt Kenny but that backfires and in nasty fashion as Will goes a spanishfly off the top but Kenny counters and hits a sick DDT onto of the exposed turnbuckles from earlier which has now busted Will open. He follows up by viciously slamming his head through the broken table on the floor. I will give credit to Will, his death, bumping, and selling of just getting the crap kicked out of him is way better than when you ask him to sell a limb. Kenny begins to get frustrated that he cannot put Will away, which allows Will to make a comeback. Hidden Blade gets a two, he goes for a Stormbreaker, but that gets countered into a V trigger, Kenny maintains grip of the wrist to stop a pinfall. Will knows he's pretty much done, so he spits on Kenny, so Kenny ends it with a V trigger followed by a one-winged angel for the win. Solid match, I've seen better from these two. Could have cut at least 13 minutes off this and could have gotten a better match. ***1/4
