Kenny Omega Opens Up About Doubts & Concerns He Had Going Into AEW All In 2026

Candid comments from Kenny Omega.

Closing out the 2026 installment of All Elite Wrestling’s All In pay-per-view was Kenny Omega defending the AEW World Championship against Will Ospreay. Ospreay came out on top.

For the first time since the bout, Omega made a media appearance. He guest-appeared on The Anime Effect Podcast and shared that he was worried about possibly being injured early in the match or his stomach flaring up on show day.

“There was always this worry before Wembley especially, where I thought, man, I wanna do the best I can. But what if I injure myself in the first five minutes of the match? What if I’m having a terrible stomach attack on the day of and I can’t really show what Kenny Omega’s all about and give the people the show that they paid for and deserve? So I had all these worries, and I remember showing up the day before. There was a Fan Fest event there. But I was also able to see the ring a little bit and the setup, and once I saw the setup and I felt the ring, I thought, something’s telling me — again, I don’t know from where — I don’t know who it was — but something’s telling me, I’m having this intuition, that this match is happened to go from start to finish and it’s gonna be good, and I’m gonna make sure the fans leave home happy and even if there’s an injury incurred or whatever, I know we’re gonna get through it, and some sort of otherworldly force just had me believing then and there — accidents do happen. You can never control them. But I just felt like there’s not gonna be one this match. It was a very odd feeling but I felt it profoundly as I was staring and gazing amongst the ring. It was a very good, reassuring feeling because I hated that — it’s just in the pit of your gut where you think there’s always that percentage that you could injure yourself. Roll your ankle in your entrance, you know what I mean? Because it was raining. It’s like a slick ramp. You have to be very careful. You could moonwalk your way down easily if you wanted to. But man, it got so slippery. You had to be very careful, and it was raining during my entrance, I think, so I thought, oh boy, this is either really cool or I’m asking for it, but, I’m just glad the match got to go off without a hitch, and that I didn’t lose via injury or something that was beyond my control. I’m glad I was able to go out, give my all and do the best that I could.”

Omega has not been on television since the loss to Ospreay. Going into All In, AEW President Tony Khan spoke about going out of his way to accommodate Omega so he could be in the best shape he could possibly be in. For more on that, click here.

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