They did it! They went out and did the stiff strikes and the nearfalls and the one-count and back and forth parts! They had some blood and fought through the pain and had big bumps to the outside and reckless stuff like that! They even had some sick stuff and a disregard for their own health! It was all there!
And then some. For some reason Kenny Omega loves to start off his matches with some good work followed by 10 minutes of slow, grinding selling, like he's been through a war and is barley holding on but his love of pro wrestling and being the best at pro wrestling will help him power through and maybe we'll get to the part where he does some cool moves. Inevitably, he does. And he will sell then, too. But not in any new way, or any way that really calls back to his selling at the beginning of the match. He just does it again. It's such a bizarre choice to structure his matches this way, as it adds nothing (nobody ever gushes about the beginnings of his matches) except to pad out the length. It's not even done in a "check the box" sort of way, as he continues to sell throughout the match. It's just always there.
When the match was good, both guys really held up their end of it. Omega has the good offense and the big spots and pretty good timing between them all, once he decided to get the match going. Gabe Kidd was great in his role, using his size to bully Omega around and getting good facial expressions throughout the match to help drive it along. It's just that a Kenny Omega big match is always going to have A LOT in it, so why pad it out with unnecessary selling at the beginning?
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