Omos discusses his run in Pro Wrestling NOAH.
'The Nigerian Giant' made waves at the beginning of 2025, competing in several matches for Pro Wrestling NOAH. Omos was even able to add some gold to resume in his first match, winning the GHC World Tag Team Championships with Jack Morris before dropping them later that month.
While speaking with Chris Van Vliet for a new interview, Omos revealed that he was the one to pitch his run in NOAH, saying that he just simply asked Road Dogg about it one day.
“What happened was I saw Tavion Heights of NXT and Josh Briggs go to Japan. I was just watching the videos and everything. Then, as they were doing shows in Japan, an interview came out with Great Muta, they asked him, Who would you love to have in Japan? The first name he mentions is me. I’m like, Oh, wow. That’s great. I didn’t think he would remember me, but he did. So I kind of threw the idea to a couple of guys about Japan. I remember seeing Road Dogg at the PC, ‘Hey, do you have a couple of minutes to chat? Not really busy right now, but I would love to go to Japan.’ He said, ‘You know what? Let me think about it.’ And then a couple months later, he was like, ‘Hey, you have an opportunity to go to Japan. Do you want to go?’ I was like, Yes! I want to go to Japan. To be honest, I am glad I did. I needed to go to Japan.”
Omos went on to talk about his style in Japan, saying that he got some advice from MVP and Shelton Benjamin.
“I would say a little bit [different]. I took a lot of things that I learned while I was working with MVP. There were a lot of things that we talked about when we were on the road together, because he taught me a lot. I just took all that style. When I was there I called him, because he wrestled in Japan. I called him. I called Shelton Benjamin, and they go, ‘Hey, in Japan, you’re a heel, be a heel. They love it, be the nastiest heel.’ I’m like, Oh, really? So I really got to embrace that. And they loved it.”
Omos and MVP had an on-screen alliance in WWE, working together from 2022 to 2024.
Elsewhere in the interview, Omos talked about waiting to make his in-ring return for WWE. Check out his full comments here.
Special thanks to Chris Van Vliet and his team for the quote(s).
