Kenny Omega

Kenny Omega
Omega in 2019
Born
Tyson Smith

(1983-10-16) October 16, 1983 (age 41)
EmployerAll Elite Wrestling
TitleExecutive Vice President
Ring name(s)Kenny Omega
Scott Carpenter[1]
Billed height6 ft 0 in (183 cm)[2]
Billed weight224 lb (102 kg)[2]
Billed fromWinnipeg, Manitoba, Canada[3]
Trained byBobby Jay[4]
Dave Taylor[4]
DebutFebruary 2000[5]
Twitch information
Channel
Years active2024–present
Genres
Followers30.3K

Last updated: April 28, 2025

Tyson Smith (born October 16, 1983), better known by the ring name Kenny Omega (Japanese: ケニー・オメガ, Hepburn: Kenī Omega), is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is also an executive vice president, and is the reigning AEW International Champion in his first reign.

Before joining AEW in 2019, Omega was known for his tenure in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) from 2014 to 2019, during which he held the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, in addition to various other titles. A member and one-time leader of the Bullet Club stable, he incorporates elements from video games in his persona. Throughout his career, Omega has also performed as part of independent promotions worldwide, including DDT Pro-Wrestling, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, as well as larger promotions, such as Ring of Honor, Impact Wrestling, and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide. While wrestling in the latter two promotions, he held the Impact World Championship and AAA Mega Championship, and during the spring and summer of 2021 he held the AEW World, Impact World, and AAA Mega titles simultaneously as a triple champion.[6] In AEW, he has held the AEW World Championship once, the AEW World Tag Team Championship once, the AEW World Trios Championship twice, and currently holds the AEW International Championship. He became AEW's inaugural Triple Crown winner in September 2022 by winning the World Trios title,[7] and also became AEW's inaugural Grand Slam champion by winning the AEW International Championship in March 2025.[8]

Hailed as one of the greatest professional wrestlers in the world and of all time,[9][10] Omega was named Sports Illustrated's Wrestler of the Year in 2017 and topped Pro Wrestling Illustrated's list of top 500 male wrestlers the following year and in 2021. He has also attained the latter publication's Match of the Year distinction three times; one of those matches, in which Omega competed against Kazuchika Okada in a two out of three falls match at Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall in June 2018, received a seven-star rating from sports journalist Dave Meltzer, the highest rating Meltzer has ever awarded a professional wrestling match. He was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 2020.

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  6. ^ Lindsey, Philip. "What's Next for AEW, Impact Partnership After Kenny Omega's World Title Win?". Bleacher Report. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  7. ^ "AEW All Out Media Scrum". Youtube. September 4, 2022. Retrieved January 14, 2024.
  8. ^ Haley Miller (March 9, 2025). "Kenny Omega Becomes AEW's First Grand Slam Champion at Revolution". Vice. Retrieved March 11, 2025.
  9. ^ Kelly, Chris (September 26, 2019). "Upstart AEW is taking WWE head on — with a focus on diversity and inclusion". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 27, 2019. Retrieved March 11, 2020. Along with Rhodes and the Young Bucks, AEW would eventually tout ... Kenny Omega, one of the world's best wrestlers who built his career in Japan.
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