Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows discuss Omos in NOAH.
Omos shocked the world in late December, joining the T2000X stable in Pro Wrestling NOAH. That shock went even further just a few days later, as Omos and Jack Morris won the GHC Tag Team Championships at NOAH's The New Year event on January 1.
As of publish time, Omos has won all five of his matches in NOAH, leading many fans to believe that he'll be staying in the company for a good amount of time.
On the latest edition of the Talk N' Shop podcast, Luke Gallows talked about Omos in NOAH and said that it's great that he's getting to learn and develop in a different company.
“You have to remember something about Omos. Omos came to America from Nigeria. Nigeria is a different world man, I spent time in Nigeria and he came here to America and he’s a giant man and he’s a professional athlete and he got trained in the WWE style and he’s a big giant and they have this working agreement with Pro Wrestling NOAH, which I think is awesome. Yes, I’d love to go back to Pro Wrestling NOAH at some point. So then, whatever is going on with him, they don’t have something here for him creatively or whatever, which is cool about the new WWE. They send him to NOAH, so now you have a foreigner in America being sent to another country where he’s probably never been. You know, I was a huge man walking around in Japan, I can’t imagine Omos at seven foot three or whatever he is, four hundred pounds, and looking the way that he looks, I mean he is a complete and total enigma and a total monster come to life walking the streets of Japan, walking into these arenas in Japan. I would say he’s having the time of his life experiencing the culture, experiencing the wrestling, seeing another side of the wrestling business that you don’t necessarily see in WWE. I think it’s great for him to learn and develop. I also think that probably, I don't know if he’s actually living there, I don’t know what the circumstances are — You’ve gotta understand, these Japanese wrestling companies are live event, touring companies still. They’re not media companies, they’re out there on the road. I’d love to see what Omos feels like when he gets out of one of those little tiny country hotels where even me at six foot six would have to shower with one leg in the bathtub and one leg out. Your legs hang completely off the bed, sometimes they’re touching the wall and you sleep in a fetal position. Omos is probably eight or ten inches taller than me, wider, bigger, so I think — when he’s out and about, he’s enjoying himself but I don’t know how comfortable he is in his daily life if he’s there for an extended period of time.”
Karl Anderson went on and echoed a similar sentiment, stating that he has an opportunity that a lot of wrestlers would kill to have.
“We have had great talks with Omos, he went to the University of Tampa, so we’ve talked about that before too. Here’s the deal, this is a great opportunity for him to just be there, learn a different style, develop and just have an opportunity that a lot of people would kill to have.”
Fans can keep up results from around the world of Pro Wrestling NOAH by visiting Fightful's results section.
Check out Karl Anderson's recent comments about wanting to win singles gold in WWE by clicking here.
If you use these quotes, please credit the original source and link back to Fightful with an h/t for the transcription.
