Kenny Omega has nothing but high praise for WWE NXT World Champion Ilja Dragunov, and says he’d love to have a match with him in the future.
Taking to his Twitch stream, Omega commented on who he enjoys watching these days, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the stream below:
On who he enjoys watching: “Dragunov. There are some folks that are active and great, but I’ve seen so much of them. I don’t want to say that I don’t enjoy watching them because I’ve seen them so much, but sometimes you get used to it. Dragunov is great. I think Claudio [Claudio Castagnoli] is the total package. He’s one of the great wrestlers on the planet. Watching Claudio do incredible feats of strength, you never know what you’re going to get from a Claudio match because he’s so versatile. When you get Claudio going crazy, it’s a sight to behold.”
On Dragunov: “Talking about Dragunov, I’ve been doing this for close to 25 years, after 25 years, you’ve seen it done and done it all, at least all the things you want to do, or almost anyway, there are a couple things timing-wise that you can never do them. You’ve seen things to a point where it’s hard to get excited. Sometimes you need help from a person you’re wrestling to lift you up and take you to that special place. Usually, what does that for me is that I’m in there with someone very hungry. When I wrestle a guy like Will Ospreay, he’s incredibly gifted athletically, and people say favorable things about him. I think he wants to answer the call for those people. For the people that think he’s the best, he wants to be the best he can be. For him to want to be the best, it lifts me up to that level to allow that. I feel that Dragunov, without me knowing who he is, he has that special element about him where he would bring the fight to the point where we would go to that magical place where we’re trading blows and having fans really believe in everything we do and really giving it all. I think it would be a great match.”
Paul Walter Hauser will be facing off against Matt Cardona at a Wrestling REVOLVER show this weekend, and he recently spoke with Chris Van Vliet on the “Insight” podcast to discuss the match and his Mt. Rushmore of Wrestling.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On his Mt. Rushmore of wrestling: “Hogan, Rock, Flair, Austin, I think, is what I would say for the world, not my favorite. My personal Mount Rushmore is Sting, Bret Hart, Ric Flair, and Chris Jericho.”
On Jericho being on his personal Mr. Rushmore of wrestling: “He’s such a controversial figure right now, but Jericho reinvented himself like nobody else has. He has made things work that should not have worked.”
