After helping him win the AEW Championship last week, Don Callis announced that Kenny Omega would appear on Impact Wrestling. This created the most buzz the promotion has received in many years and resulted in Impact Wrestling trending as #1 on Twitter. In addition, Omega’s segment helped the company smash their Twitch record with over 55,000 people watching.
Putting this number into perspective, Impact’s previous Twitch record was 5,449 on April 6, 2018. Tony Kahn and Tony Schiavone also made an appearance during what was called a “paid advertisement,” and over 40,000 viewers watched it. It isn’t known yet what the episode did on AXS, the station which Impact airs on. Still, it’s expected to be considerably larger than the 166,000 the show received last week.
The segment has been highly praised and featured Omega and Callis being interviewed by Josh Mathews. It started with Callis talking about meeting Omega as a ten-year-old having trained under Kenny Omega’s uncle. Callis then spoke about how he set up Omega vs. Jericho, which lead to the creation of AEW. After this, Callis changed the nameplate on the AEW belt from Jon Moxley to Omega’s. Kenny would say that Moxley broke their gentlemen’s agreement when he struck Callis, and that’s why he did what he did. He’d add that he is a collector and not opposed to adding to his collection referring to title belts. Omega ended by teasing a surprise for tonight’s Dynamite.
You can view the full segment for yourself below.
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