Kenny Omega Says There Was No Plan For A Match With Josh Alexander Despite Tease

Kenny Omega and Josh Alexander were supposed to a tease something. 

In December 2020, Kenny Omega captured the AEW World Championship from Jon Moxley with help from Don Callis, who was a TNA executive at the time. Omega would begin appearing on TNA iMPACT! and won the TNA World Title in April 2021. 

Speaking on his Twitch stream, Omega was asked if there were ever plans for him to have a match with Josh Alexander. 

“I’ll be transparent, I’ll be honest. I don’t know if you guys remember, but while I was doing the belt collect thing, I was doing pre-tapes all the time. I was doing eight weeks of TV in a day. One of the pre-tapes they said, ‘You’re going to walk through to where the ring is, but you’re going to bump into Josh Alexander and there is going to be a bit of a confrontation.’ I said, ‘Where are we going with this? Is there physicality? I didn’t know I was going a thing with Josh. That’s great. I love Josh. I think he’s fantastic.’ He goes, ‘No, we’re not.’ I said, ‘We’re not? Then why are we doing it? Don’t you think people want to see it?’ ‘Yeah, that’s the point. ‘Yeah, but if they want to see it and we don’t give it to them…’ ‘We’ll worry about that later.’ ‘Ohhhh, man. Can we maybe do it at some point?’ ‘Yeah, yeah, maybe we can get around to it.’ I’m telling you, there was no actual plan plan. My apologies for that. Right off the bat, I thought that was odd. I’m all about throwing in a red herring, but I was only there for a certain amount of time. Eventually, I was going to be losing that belt. I was more than willing to work with anyone. They have such good guys,” said Omega.

The segment aired in July 2021 while Alexander was the reigning X-Division Champion. 

IMPACT World Champion @KennyOmegamanX just barged in on X-Division Champion @Walking_Weapon‘s interview. #IMPACTonAXSTV pic.twitter.com/LB8krBIKxW

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) July 23, 2021

Omega won the TNA World Title from Rich Swann and defended it against Moose and Sami Callihan before losing it to Christian Cage. 

Elsewhere during the interview, Omega commented on Rossy Ogawa. You can find his full comments by clicking here. 

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