Kenny Omega Recalls IMPACT Segment Getting Pulled Due To His Injuries

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Kenny Omega has opened up about his recent injuries, recalling an IMPACT Wrestling segment that was scrapped due to a serious medical issue.

Omega stated appearing on IMPACT TV in December 2020, before eventually capturing the IMPACT World Championship at the April 2021 Rebellion event. Holding the gold for over 100 days, Omega defended the championship against the likes of Sami Callihan and Moose before losing the gold to Christian on AEW Rampage in August.

Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Omega stated that his hernia got ‘real bad’ before a set of IMPACT TV tapings he was set to appear at. During a taping, Omega had to do a run-in, which was ultimately cut from the TV broadcast.

Omega noted:

“I guess the tough part was just trying to – I don’t want this to come out the wrong way – but I guess I wanted to fool the fans. I didn’t want them ever to think, ‘Kenny’s doing a decent job for someone that’s hurt’. I didn’t even want that to cross their minds. I just wanted to build myself up as a champion that they wanted to see defeated. There were times where that was more difficult than others.

“Funny story actually when I was at IMPACT, and my hernia got real, real bad. They did a lot of tapings when it was the no fan arena setting in Nashville. And I would be on every week doing something, whether it was showing up to the arena, or walking out to the ring to cut a little bit of a promo, or to interfere in a match.

“I wouldn’t necessarily have a match all the time but it got to a point where I would do some six-man tag for an app special, then I would do another six-man tag for one of the TV shows, maybe another tag match, and then the next day would be the pay-per-view match, and then the day after that would be the follow-up TV tapings to the pay-per-view fallout, and those days would normally have maybe one match but a lot of run-ins, a lot of interviews, a lot of promos.

“And I recall having to do a run-in, I think it was on Sami Callihan or maybe on Moose, or both actually, and every step felt like I was getting poked in the stomach with some sort of sharp object. And I remember Scott (D’Amore) telling me after, he’s like, ‘Kenny, we had to just cut that segment out, because you look like a 95-year-old man walking to the ring’. It was bad.

“So I couldn’t do a run-in, I had to do like a walk-in, but it was kinda like the hot/cold kinda walk where it’s like, ‘Ah, ah, ah, ah’ (in pain with every step). And I couldn’t… there was no more adrenaline left. I couldn’t just rev up and go, ‘Okay, the adrenaline’s going, I can do these eight run-ins’. You can’t go up and down that many times in a day, and it just came to a point where all I could feel was the pain and that’s it. And I was like, ‘Wow, this is getting bad’.

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Omega also provided an update on his current condition, which you can read about here.

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• Taping
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