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What is Kenny wins, and he chooses to fight Kota? Especially since if he then loses, it strengthens Kota’s position where right now he’s a bit adrift and seems to be thrown under the bus a lot. (I don’t want them to fight but it seems inevitable that they eventually be forced to, surely it could be a positive if they played it right?)

Yeah, I’m not excited about this. I think Kenny will win at Dominion, but I don’t see any universe in which Kota wins the belt from Kenny in the event of an Omega vs. Ibushi match at Wrestle Kingdom. I actually don’t think we’re getting that match anyway; it doesn’t seem like Kota’s important enough within NJPW to merit main-eventing Wrestle Kingdom.

But if it does happen, I don’t think Kenny will challenge Kota outright. In-storyline Kenny is not in any way looking to fight his Golden Lover. And I don’t think that Kota would challenge him, either, nor do I foresee a heel turn or betrayal. I mean… I know it’s wrestling but they’ve been building an epic love story for the past nine years, and we’d be meant to believe that it would all end over a championship belt? I hope they won’t go that route.

But it doesn’t fucking matter how they get there, because all roads involving Ibushi lead to Omega winning at Wrestle Kingdom. The most likely way to get Kota as the challenger is to have him win the G1, and the G1 winner has never won at WK, for one thing. For another, Kenny’s like… the biggest wrestling star in the world right now. And Kota probably hasn’t signed a full-time contract with NJPW. Plus, Kenny’s never beaten Kota (they’ve had two matches against each other), so it’s probably time for that to come full circle. I guess.

BUUUUUT below the cut are TWO booking ideas for Omega to retain the IWGP Heavyweight belt against Ibushi at WK 13:

One that’s in the realm of possibility and is interesting-ish, and makes Ibushi look as good as possible (which is not very good).

One that is completely batshit but super fun, is technically possible, and most importantly wouldn’t bury Ibushi or the Golden Lovers.

Here’s my realistic-ish booking, if we really have to do this:

Give Ibushi a monster G1 run, but have him still lose, either in the final or in the block finals, and make it very dicey whether he lost because he didn’t want to fight Kenny, or because he just plain lost.

Have the G1 winner call out Ibushi as the challenger for the briefcase defense, because it wouldn’t be believable that he’d make the challenge himself.

Cody would be the best story-wise, although chances are basically nonexistent that he’d win the G1 (Kenny was the first gaijin to do it ever, in 2016). But you can totally see Cody calling out Ibushi just to fuck with him some more, and twist the knife by making Ibushi choose between losing to Cody or fighting Kenny at Wrestle Kingdom.

Naito and Tanahashi both have reasons why they’d call out Ibushi, and so would ZSJ or even Okada (he wants someone who’s going to give him a real fight, maybe). Basically, give Ibushi a situation where he can’t really let himself lose so he doesn’t have to fight Kenny.

Anyway, no one has ever lost their briefcase defense. Make Ibushi the first person to beat the briefcase holder and steal the WK main event.

Then you have the Golden Lovers, who tried everything to avoid fighting each other, forced to fight at WK. You get an angsty buildup where instead of shit-talking and peacocking it’s like, ‘well this is how it has to be and I’m gonna do my best’. (V says there should be at least one pull-apart but this is my crack booking and I don’t want that.)

Optionally, make it extra awful by at some point having them win the heavyweight tag belts and later have to vacate them so they can fight at Wrestle Kingdom. Very symbolic, being forced to give up something they won as a team so they can be opponents.

Yawn. I’ve got something much stupider in mind:

Here’s an impossibly cracky ridiculous booking that would still let Omega win at WK, but not bury Ibushi or the Golden Lovers:

Kota challenges Naito for the IC belt, and wins. (LET MY MANS WIN A FUCKING TITLE FOR FUCK’S SAKE. He has never won a heavyweight title in NJPW, and has challenged for all the singles titles except the US belt.)

Or, have him challenge for the US belt, and win it at G1 USA so I can cry about it in person, while wearing Kota Ibushi themed clothing. (The US belt REALLY needs someone like Kota. Omega vs. Jericho semi-main eventing WK has fallen within a few months to Jay White vs. David Finlay at a road-to show. It needs some help. And to not be the fucking Gaijin Belt.)

The Golden Lovers win the heavyweight tag belts.

Put Ibushi and Omega in the same G1 block, and have Ibushi win their match. (I know no one wants to blow this load in the G1, but I think it could work, especially if Ibushi wins, since Omega has never beaten him.)

Have Omega win the G1 as champ, in which case he gets to choose his challenger.

Omega says ‘hey babe, you wanna do Wrestle Kingdom? One more fight, for the fans?’ Kota having beaten him in the block matches means he has the right to challenge at some point.

Then these idiots together have the top two belts in the company (or the top belt and the US belt), the heavyweight tag belts, and in a sense they co-won the G1. TL;DR, book them as a monstrous unstoppable power couple fueled by the strength of their love and lulz.

Okada challenges for the briefcase, because he’s still salty over losing the belt to Omega. He loses, and it’s made even worse because Omega’s in Ibushi’s corner for the briefcase defense. We get an Okada vs. Ibushi match out of this deal, and Ibushi gets to win this time. (He’s had two matches with Okada, one in NJPW and one in DDT, and lost both. His friend Tiger Mask W also lost to Okada.)

This would mean that Okada would be in the same G1 block as Omega, and would have to lose AGAINNNN to Omega. Extra salt. But it also means he’d have to beat Ibushi, for a third time, before Ibushi’s ultimately victorious when it matters most………… PARALLELS???!?! HARBINGERS OF WHAT’S TO COME!?!

Ibushi defends the IC/US belt successfully, so he has to vacate it, and NJPW has a fucking awesome ladder match for the IC/US title at Wrestle Kingdom. (PLEASE Gedo!)

Have the Golden Lovers lose the tag titles to the Young Bucks, basically as a subplot, have them keep trading the titles back and forth (this would elevate the tag titles because of the star power of the two teams, IMO).

Basically, they show up at WK ready to go nuts and have the time of their lives together. Their fight at WK is not angsty sad-we-have-to-fight, but a chance for them, at the top of their game, to put on the show they’ve always wanted to on the world’s second grandest stage.

And book it like that, like they believe the outcome is almost secondary to them achieving their dream together. ‘Yeah I’m here to win, make no mistake, but I’m also so fucking pumped to main event Wrestle Kingdom with my bff like we used to talk about like 10 years ago when we were dumbasses in DDT.’ They’re opponents, and they’re playing to win, but they’re still, and always, the Golden Lovers.

And… make it A Thing that Kenny still hasn’t beaten Ibushi, and he’s the motherfucking IWGP heavyweight champion. Make that an important stake in this, because it would be to him/them.

This doesn’t bury Ibushi as much, even if (when) he loses, because he still looks like a fucking boss: he had a singles title that he did not lose (and could easily challenge for again), he beat Omega once in the process; part of Omega’s goal was just to beat him for once. And of course, the Golden Lovers remain as strong as ever.

Anyway that won’t happen and Ibushi is going to get buried and I’m already salty about it; having gotten a head start as soon as Okada called out Omega.

THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK AND FOR BELIEVING IN THE POWER OF LOVE.

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