{"id":10637,"date":"2017-12-11T14:57:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T19:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=10637"},"modified":"2017-12-11T15:16:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T20:16:18","slug":"chris-jericho-attacks-kenny-omega-in-japan-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/12\/11\/chris-jericho-attacks-kenny-omega-in-japan-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Jericho Attacks Kenny Omega in Japan (VIDEOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At today&#8217;s finals for the <em><strong>2017 NJPW World Tag League<\/strong><\/em>, the &#8220;Alpha vs. Omega&#8221; feud between IWGP US Champion <strong>Kenny Omega<\/strong> and former WWE World Champion <strong>Chris Jericho<\/strong> reached new heights, when Y2J appeared in Hakata, Japan and landed a Codebreaker on Kenny Omega in the middle of the ring. Omega was celebrating after he and the <strong>Young Bucks<\/strong> had just defeated <strong>Roppongi 3K<\/strong> (YO, SHO and Rocky Romero) when the lights went out and a new Jericho video aired on the big screen. When the lights came back on, Jericho was behind Omega in the ring.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dQX174uKXGU<\/p>\n<p>Following the attack, Jericho took to his new YouTube channel to address Omega ahead of their hugely anticipated dream match at <em><strong>Wrestle Kingdom 12 <\/strong><\/em>this January.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LF4myJpOeVY<\/p>\n<p>The attack is the latest in the ongoing battles between wrestling&#8217;s &#8220;Alpha&#8221; Chris Jericho, who first got involved with Omega during a prolonged Twitter feud the past few months. It culminated in Jericho appearing on screen at <em><strong>NJPW Power Struggle<\/strong> <\/em>on November 5, with Chris Jericho challenging Omega to a fight at WK12.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WiV4Mwfp24w<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Bullet Club leader Kenny Omega, Chris Jericho has been poking a few bears in NJPW&#8217;s locker room. When <strong>Tetsuya Naito<\/strong> recently made comments that Jericho and Omega&#8217;s match was nowhere near a &#8220;co-main event&#8221; as Omega advertised, Jericho immediately shot back at Naito, who&#8217;s facing IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada in the main event at <em>Wrestle Kingdom 12. <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Naito, not sure who u are but make no mistake-on a worldwide basis, theres only ONE MAIN EVENT for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WrestleKingdom12?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WrestleKingdom12<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fmax6ALP8u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Fmax6ALP8u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAmJericho\/status\/937402573514072065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Whether Jericho will provoke further at the next NJPW events (<em><strong>Road To Tokyo<\/strong><\/em>) on December 17 and 18 remains to be seen, but Jericho is currently off the road with <strong>Fozzy<\/strong> until January 28.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10643\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10643\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/DN4l7i6WkAEa69t-e1513022146354.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NJPW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At today&#8217;s finals for the 2017 NJPW World Tag League, the &#8220;Alpha vs. Omega&#8221; feud between IWGP US Champion Kenny Omega and former WWE World Champion Chris Jericho reached new heights, when Y2J appeared in Hakata, Japan and landed a Codebreaker on Kenny Omega in the middle of the ring. Omega was celebrating after he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":10644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,14],"tags":[107,386,188,1692,1673],"class_list":["post-10637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-njpw","tag-chris-jericho","tag-kenny-omega","tag-njpw","tag-world-tag-league","tag-wrestle-kingdom-12"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}