Who will be the first challenger for Kenny Omega?
At Revolution, Kenny Omega pulled out all of the stops to beat his arch nemesis, Konosuke Takeshita. The former International Champion had the former AEW World Champion’s number going in. But the returning star proved that he hasn’t lost his touch and became the International Champion for the first time in his career.
However, the easy part was winning the belt. Now, a new challenger will be determined for Kenny as Tony Khan just announced a single elimination tournament where the winner will go on to fight Omega for the belt at Dynasty.
The name that sticks out the most is Ricochet. This isn’t the first time the duo have fought one another. The former WWE Intercontinental Champion battled Omega in the semi-finals of the 2014 Battle of Los Angeles tournament. Not surprisingly, these two had a great match, but more importantly, Ricochet won that night. The company can easily play up that result if Ricochet wins the tournament.
Orange Cassidy, Katsuyori Shibata, and Mark Briscoe also stand out as interesting opponents for Omega. Cassidy had a memorable Triple Threat match with Omega and PAC at Double or Nothing 2021, but the two have yet to have a singles match against one another. Shibata is also another man that owns a victory over Omega. These two fought in the 2016 G1 Climax and they also had one hell of a match as well.
Briscoe has faced Omega in plenty of tag team matches, but never any singles. Of course, everything can change with the mystery name opponent for The Beast Mortos. Overall, there’s interesting directions that this tournament can go considering the participants.
As mentioned above, two first round tournaments begin this Wednesday as Orange Cassidy vs. Hechicero and a Wild Card will take on The Beast Mortos on AEW Dynamite. Based on the names, this will likely be another strong tournament because the matches will surely be great.
Thus far, these are the only two matches confirmed for the upcoming episode of Dynamite. Both Kenny Omega and MJF are also being advertised to speak on Dynamite.