Kenny Omega, If you’re going to be a diva about things, stay in Japan…

This is essentially a response to a recent piece here at The Chairshot, that had some quotes from Kenny Omega about possibly working in WWE.  To paraphrase, he said that there are some people in the WWE he could have some great matches with “if I’m allowed to be me.”  To which I say……..never mind dude, just stay where you are.

I mean seriously, there are some people I would love to see Omega work with – Roman Reigns, AJ Styles, Seth Rollins, and Daniel Bryan to name a few – but not at the price of either Vince giving him way too much freedom or him passive aggressively giving anonymous quotes to Dave Meltzer about how unhappy he is when he inevitably has to do something he doesn’t consider to be good art or whatever.

We all know that working in WWE comes with a lot of restrictions – reduced movesets, shorter time limits on matches, road agents producing matches, and scripted promos.  It also comes with more certainty in one’s paycheck and the potential for said paycheck to be a lot bigger so it’s a tradeoff.  It’s different than working indies or in Japan for sure.

And if you’re going to come over it needs to be with the understanding that no, you’re not going to get to do all that stuff you did before you got there and yes, there’s gonna be some other stuff you have to do now.  If you can’t deal with that then it’s better for everyone if you don’t bother until such a time when you’re more amenable to all that.  You don’t get to be you, you get to incorporate ‘you’ into whatever the plans are.

And it also means that you’re going to have to work some of those dreaded eight to ten minute TV matches that exist to move an angle forward or set up a matchup on a pay per view.  You’re going to have to work with people that are considered beneath you or a waste of your time.  And you’re going to have to put some people over that your biggest fans may think can’t lace your boots.

When it comes time for one of those big matches people want to see you in you’re not going to get 45 minutes to work, more like 20.  And it may have a DQ finish the first time around to set up a rematch the next month.   You may have to go in the Royal Rumble at number 2, stay in for 40 minutes, and get tossed out by Curt Hawkins.  And you may win one of the big titles and get cashed in on by the Money in the Bank winner immediately after.  Such is life.

WWE is a machine, and it runs like one.  If that’s not your deal then it’s best to stay away.  The people who have signed there and succeeded have managed to take all the rules in stride and find a way to thrive inside of them, even despite them sometimes.  You’re good but you’re not any more special than anyone else who has gone there.

AJ Styles was a Batman-esque urban legend to a lot of WWE fans, and yet he came in and played nice and has thrived there.  You can try to replicate that, maybe even succeed, or you can carry on like CM Punk did towards the end and since he left.  Or….if you know that’s how you’re going to be then just stay where you’re happy and spare us all the drama.

The choice is yours, and we all hope you make the right one.