Kenny Omega talks how AEW has changed since inception

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Kenny Omega says today's AEW is different from what it was in its first year.

Omega spoke with B/R recently about what the promotion's locker room was like back in 2019 and what has changed since then.

"We had a locker room and a team of real go-getters," Omega said of AEW's year one roster. "Every week was something new, something exciting. We were just trying to get our footing. Now we have a much larger roster, and we have a lot of our bases covered."

"Is it different now than it was on day one? Absolutely it's different," he continued. "Do I still feel that I have an identity within this company? Yeah, it's still AEW. From 2019 until now, every single year has been completely different from one another. I didn't even realize it until you asked me the question just now how different year one was from year two and year three."

"It's all about making the fans happy. You strip back everything from the original mission statement, it was really all about making fans happy. At the end of the day, if the fans are happy with the product, if the networks are happy, if everyone is happy who consumes our product, then I'm happy too."

Omega is scheduled to team with Chris Jericho against The Young Bucks at AEW Full Gear on Saturday. It was at Full Gear 2021 that Omega dropped the AEW World Championship to Hangman Page and then took nine months off to heal several nagging injuries.

Regarding his current health, Omega says he feels great but noted he is getting older and has days where he doesn't know if he's able to do anything physical.

"I'm getting to the age where I'll feel great and then I'll spontaneously slip and fall on a banana peel and then the next thing you know I've got a broken hip," Omega said. "I'm starting to get brittle like that.

"You can feel great one day and then the next day it's like, 'Wow, I don't know if I can do anything physical.' When you get to around that time, you just go day-by-day and you try to commit as best you can to injury prevention and injury management."

Kenny Omega: Every year in AEW ‘has been completely different from one another’

Omega spoke with B/R ahead of Saturday’s AEW Full Gear.

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