Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay dig into their history ahead of All In London

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AEW Dynamite spent a big chunk of Wednesday's show setting the table for the World Championship match everyone in the building actually came to see teased, a sit down interview between Renee Paquette and both Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay ahead of their showdown at All In London on August 30. The two have a long history together that goes back well before either of them was a household name, first crossing paths in PWG and then again years later in New Japan Pro Wrestling, and Wednesday's segment leaned hard into that shared past rather than just hyping the upcoming match with generic trash talk.

Omega addressed something that has clearly stuck with him over the years, the perception that New Japan needed to import him specifically because Ospreay's name alone was not seen as enough of a draw at the time. Ospreay, for his part, pushed back by highlighting how different their respective circumstances actually were during that stretch of both their careers, particularly around the height of the pandemic. He described taking fifteen hour flights just to spend two weeks quarantined in a hotel room barely bigger than a closet so he could compete, a grind that contrasted sharply with what he characterized as a much smoother three hour drive situation for Omega during the same period.

Omega was not about to let that framing stand unchallenged either. He countered by pointing out that America was dealing with its own serious problems during that same stretch, including the near total absence of live fans at shows, and argued that even when Japanese crowds could still cheer, the overall environment carried its own unique difficulties that Ospreay's version of events was glossing over. It made for a genuinely prickly, personal exchange rather than the usual manufactured wrestling promo, the kind of back and forth that only works when there is real shared history underneath it.

The rest of Wednesday's card was built around the AEW Continental Challenge Cup quarterfinals, with Jon Moxley beating Jay White and Nigel McGuinness getting past Hechicero to advance the bracket, plus a six man trios tag pitting Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks against the Don Callis Family that Omega's side won heading into the World Championship program. Elsewhere on the show, the TBS Championship picture stayed just as busy, with Maya World defending against Hikaru Shida, Kris Statlander and Persephone in a four way that keeps that title picture unsettled heading toward London as well.

All In returns to Wembley Stadium on August 30 for the fourth consecutive year AEW has run the venue, and the promotion is clearly treating the Omega-Ospreay rematch as the emotional centerpiece of the entire show. Given how much genuine, lived history the two men have with each other, and how raw Wednesday's interview segment actually felt compared to the usual scripted wrestling hype package, it is shaping up to be one of the more personally charged main events AEW has put together in a while.

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