Kenny Omega seemingly responds to Gail Kim’s comments about AEW’s Riho
Gail Kim recently posted some comments online about feeling uncomfortable watching AEW’s Riho wrestle.
While responding to fans on X regarding a clip of Jim Cornette speaking about Riho, Kim offered her own take, saying that she has felt uncomfortable while watching Riho matches previously due the camera work feeling improper and Riho being dressed “like a very little girl.” Kim also says that Riho’s size makes it hard to believe she would be competitive in a division with larger women.
Kim wrote:
“I will say, and I haven’t watched AEW in a very long time, but when I did watch Riho and nothing against her at all bc I am The biggest supporter of all women who wanna make it in this business, but I did feel uncomfortable watching her because the camera shots would go up her skirt and she was always dressed like a very little girl and it felt improper.”
“I am also into very believable Wrestling. Not everyone is especially nowadays. And it was very hard for me to believe a little girl that was being portrayed of that size was fighting the women they had in that division. To put it into context, I find Io, Mia, Asuka, Kairi and Lei Ying to be more believable and I don’t feel uncomfortable watching.”
In response to a fan who wrote that Riho is the same size as WWE’s AJ Lee, Kim responded:
“OK, I’m not taking anything away from her talent. I’m talking about what I saw years ago and what made me feel uncomfortable.She looked like a very young girl in a frilly skirt and the camera man was up her ass. It just felt inappropriate to me.”
Kim concluded her comments on Riho by writing:
“I’m not going to comment on the Riho thing again. I have stated my opinion. It was a four part tweet so you can look at that again if you don’t understand what I was saying. It was more than about her size. It was a combination of things. I was asked about it, and I answered.”
Kenny Omega recently posted a comment online that some fans are taking as being in regard to Kim’s posts, although that cannot be confirmed.
Omega wrote, “Another day and another ‘legend’ doing the splits on it for the yearly TKO gift basket…”
Kim responded to Omega’s post, writing, “If you’re trying to beat around the bush and misinterpret things like the rest of the yahoos, let me clarify that you are wrong.”
Kim, the seven-time TNA Knockouts World Champion, was released from the company in March after a behind-the-scenes shakeup that also saw the departures of executives Rafael Morffi, Ariel Shnerer, Rob Kligman, and Michael Shewchenko. She had been working in talent relations at the time.
Some of Kim’s posts are below: