In 2015 I watched Omega a bunch of times and thought he was good but over-acted. So what happened in 2016? How did he narrowly beat AJ Styles for the Best Wrestler of the year crown? It's simple: he was in the best match of the year, two other matches in the top 10, and one that just barely missed the top 10 (the 6-man tag from NJPW's Power Struggle). At the beginning of the year, New Japan gave him the ball and he rolled with it. Styles and Nakamura went to the WWE and so they pushed Omega. He won the IC title and the G1 Climax tournament, he beat Naito and Tanahashi, and he became the leader of The Bullet Club. Yes, he over-acts, but that's his character; he's brash, arrogant, a punk. He does the amazing high-flying stuff, the hardcore ladder, tables, and chairs stuff, and the brutal, dramatic Japan-style stiff wrestling stuff. Omega is the whole package, and 2016 was the year he became a star.
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