AEW World Champion MJF gets his title challenger for Dynasty, rematch made official
The next challenger for the AEW World title is Kenny Omega after he defeated Swerve Strickland in the opener of Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite.
Omega defeated Strickland clean after hitting a One Winged Angel, gaining revenge for Strickland defeating him in February and taking him out of action with his post-match attack.
With the win, Omega took Strickland’s number one contender status and retains his executive vice president role which was also up in the match.
During a segment later on Dynamite, Omega confronted MJF in the ring during a promo segment in which he offered up a challenge for April’s Dynasty pay-per-view from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. MJF agreed and then declined to shake Omega’s hand, leaving the ring.
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The two have squared off once before, coincidentally during MJF’s first title reign. Made with less than a week’s notice, the October 2023 Collision match saw Omega attempting to prevent MJF from becoming the longest reigning AEW World Champion ever which would have surpassed Omega’s reign.
MJF defeated Omega in just over thirty minutes and in the aforementioned segment, Omega said he was only at 60-80% and the current day version of Omega won’t fall for any bullsh*t antics MJF tries to throw at him.
Omega will be looking to regain the title he lost to Hangman Page in November 2021 while MJF is looking to extend his three month run.
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