DDT Pro Wrestler Kenny Omega Gets Megafied
I doubt a lot of you know much about Japanese pro wrestling – I certainly don’t. But today the stars have aligned and we get to talk about Kenny Omega, a Canada-born pro wrestler in Japan’s Dramatic Dream Team circuit. Kenny’s character gimmick is that he’s a big gamer and otaku, and even performs a hadouken as his special move. Well, he does the pose, and then smacks his opponent with the thrust.
Particularly, though, Kenny seems to be a big fan of Mega Man. He uses the well known Wily stage music from Mega Man 2 as his entrance theme. One of his moves, wherein he just holds up his hand and makes his opponent stop in their tracks, has the nickname of Flash Man’s Time Stopper. And he seems to be good pals with Ucchy-san on Rockman Unity, and has appeared on the blog before.
Recently, Kenny got a special arrangement of his borrowed entrance theme by Capcom’s own ROCK-MEN, the sound composers behind last year’s We are ROCK-MEN arrange album. Having watched the debut of the tune in Kenny’s bout last night, I was happy how many people got into. It was the only theme song I could recall people clapping too. I did my best to get a recording, though coming from a live stream it’s not going to be great.
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Perhaps the tune will get formally released on a new ROCK MEN album? That remains to be seen. In the meantime, Kenny won both his matches, and will move on to the King Of Osaka 2012 match July 8th. I… just might have to see this. Anyway, if you’re really curious, I have some shots from the fight after the break. Whoo, wrestling!
Tags: Dr. Wily, Japan, Kenny Omega, ROCK-MEN, theme song, wrestling
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I really liked Omega in ROH, didnt know he went to DDT. Now I like him even more because of this!
Best introduction ever?
Wanna see him tangle with the Kinnikuman cosplayers.
That’s pretty cool, he should dress with the Mega Man hat that Ucchy-san uses all the time.
^And MegaMan-blue trunks and boots. I don’t follow wrestling in any major company, but this is awesome.
I’ll never understand fans of “pro wrestling”.
Derpy boring stuff.
Don’t worry; they probably don’t understand you, either.
You forgot to mention that he even DOES the Final Atomic Buster (to ragdolls, but still… it’s incredible to see); Kenny Omega is one of my favorite wrestlers. Gotta watch his work on DDT, never knew he went there! Thanks!