AEW International Championship Match!
“The Alpha” Konosuke Takeshita (c.) (with Don Callis)
vs.
“The Cleaner” Kenny Omega!
“A big fight feel for this one!” said Excalibur.
“This crowd wants to see Takeshita win the third in the trilogy,” replied Callis.
Omega and Takeshita traded forearms. Takeshita jumped at Omega and clocked Omega with a Takeshita-line! Omega answered with a vertical suplex. Omega jumped over the top rope and wiped out Takeshita on the arena floor.
Takeshita whipped Omega into the guardrail. Takeshita spiked Omega with a DDT in the ring. The champ targeted the abdomen of Kenny with a well-placed knee strike. Takeshita pulled a table out from beneath the ring. Takeshita set up the table on the arena floor. Takeshita was thinking Blue Thunder Bomb off the apron. Kenny chopped back. Omega palmed Takeshita’s head like a basketball and planted Takeshita on the apron.
Omega jumped onto the barricade, but Takeshita shoved him off it. Omega crashed into the guardrail, smacking his ribs. Takeshita staggered Omega with a brain buster back in the ring. Takeshita applied the body scissors on Omega, trying to squeeze the life out of him.
Omega jabbed at Takeshita, back into the fight. Omega nailed Takeshita with a fireman’s carry into a moonsault combination for a near fall. Kenny took down Takeshita with a hurracanrana. Takeshita’s momentum carried him out to the floor. Don Callis grabbed Omega’s ankle. Takeshita used the distraction to knock Kenny over the top rope with a lariat.
Takeshita hurled Omega with a release German Suplex on the arena floor. Takeshita picked up Omega and planted him across a table that was set on its side, continuing to work on Omega’s midsection!
“I think that’s worse than going through a table,” said Schiavone.
Takeshita went for a senton, but Omega countered by lifting his knees. Kenny was still clutching his ribs. Takeshita went for a senton off the top rope, but Omega rolled inward, preventing the impact from Takeshita.
Omega anticipated the Takeshita-line and countered with a snap dragon suplex. Omega power bombed Takeshita and rocked Takeshita with a knee strike!
“Omega amazes me how much he has taken in this match and can still come up with those knee strikes,” said Schiavone.
Takeshita blasted Omega with a Blue Thunder Bomb out of nowhere for a near fall! Takeshita placed Omega on the top turnbuckle. Takeshita knocked Omega out of the ring with a lariat. Omega jumped with a springboard into a power bomb, but Takeshita kicked out at the two-count! Omega followed up with a V-Trigger! Omega was looking for the One-Winged Angel but collapsed, the damage to the midsection was too much. Takeshita countered a pile driver with a tombstone piledriver, but somehow Omega kicked out of the pin attempt. Takeshita struck Omega with a powerdrive knee, and then a second knee, but Omega kicked out at the one-count!
“This place is going nuts!” said Taz.
The fans chanted “Kenny! Kenny! Kenny!”
Takeshita crumbled Omega with a forearm strike. Omega landed a ripcord knee and then a stuffed piledriver, but Takeshita escaped the pin attempt!
The fans erupted with chants of “Fight forever! Fight forever!”
Takeshita absorbed kicks from Omega, defiant against the challenger. Takeshita intercepted a knee strike, but Omega fired back with a poison rana! Omega smashed Takeshita with the V-Trigger. Takeshita escaped a One-Winged Angel, but Kenny pinned Takeshita with a crucifix and became the new AEW International champion!
“From top to bottom, this is a message to everyone to never give up if you have a goal in mind. And that’s exactly what Omega did,” said Tony Schiavone.
“Kenny Omega has returned to the ring and can once again call himself champion,” replied Excalibur.