During the post-AEW Revolution 2024 media scrum, AEW President Tony Khan stated that Kenny Omega would not return in time for AEW’s upcoming tour of Canada.
The shows in Winnipeg are scheduled for May, and Omega was previously advertised.
Omega has been out of action after being diagnosed with diverticulitis.
Khan also weighed in on Kyle O’Reilly’s return to AEW at Revolution 2024.
You can check out some highlights from the media scrum below:
On Kenny Omega returning by May: “I don’t think it would be fair at all to create the expectation that Kenny Omega would be cleared by then. I really appreciate the question. I’m very optimistic Kenny will be coming back, but I don’t know the exact date. I think that’s an aggressive timetable. But absolutely, Kenny is one of AEW’s great stars and we can’t wait to have him back as soon as possible. I don’t think it would be fair to create the expectation he would be cleared by then though.”
On Kyle O’Reilly being back in AEW: “Kyle O’Reilly is so amazing to have him back in AEW. I’m a huge fan of Kyle’s. People forget that he went on this incredible run of matches. He really, before he got injured, was on an amazing run. He challenged Jon Moxley for the championship, he won the Casino Battle Royale on Dynamite and I thought his match against Mox was one of the best matches of the year in 2022. It was phenomenal. And the run he had leading up to that, you know, he won clean matches against Rey Fenix, Darby Allin, Jungle Boy, a lot of top stars on the roster to then go into that Casino Battle Royale and just phenomenal wrestling at the highest level in his tremendous career. It was actually here in the Greensboro Coliseum in 2021 where Kyle O’Reilly first arrived in AEW and Orange Cassidy was involved in that match and that moment too. Very fitting to have Kyle O’Reilly and of course we saw the Undisputed Kingdom out there, there’s a lot of history, we have a new International Champion Roderick Strong…quite a moment, Kyle O’Reilly coming back and being here in the Greensboro Coliseum where he first arrived in AEW years ago.”
