Earlier this week, Kevin Knight scored a victory over former AEW World Champion Darby Allin on “AEW Dynamite.” Now, he turns his attention to the reigning champion Kenny Omega, whom he’ll challenge at AEW Redemption.
During an interview with “The Sportster,” Knight identified that his recent opponents share numerous commonalities, a few of which are not necessarily positive. “I feel there’s a variety of similarities between the each of them because they’ve each been at AEW from day one,” Knight said. “Life has type of humbled each of them in a way. Darby does so many alternative things only for slightly little bit of attention. He sees a man like me are available in just smooth sailing, went straight to the highest. I became TNT Champion. Even after I was TNT Champion, I still wanted more and got a military behind me. And now I’m in a position to go against a Kenny Omega confident.”
“The similarities that they’ve, they’re each delusional, for my part,” he continued. “Darby Allin, he had a brief reign for a few month and killed himself during that reign. Now Kenny Omega, he’s on the slope. He’s on the way in which down from being this on his high horse that he once was.”
As Knight alluded to, recent years in Omega’s wrestling profession have not been the kindest, especially as he continues to feel the results of the diverticulitis diagnosis he initially received in late 2023. It didn’t stop Omega from reclaiming the AEW World Championship this 12 months, nonetheless.
Allin himself captured the AEW World Championship by defeating MJF on the April 15, 2026 edition of “Dynamite.” Three weeks later, he successfully defended it against Knight; “The Jet” bounced back along with his aforementioned win, which involved the TNT Championship, over Allin this week.
For those who use any of the quotes in this text, please credit “The Sportster” with a h/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.