AEW may already be setting the stage for Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay to headline All In at Wembley Stadium, with the company’s world title picture now looking like it could be moving directly toward that showdown.
During Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez discussed AEW’s slow-building storyline involving Omega and Ospreay following their backstage interaction on Dynamite after Double or Nothing. Instead of rushing the angle, Meltzer said AEW appears to be carefully planting seeds months ahead of Wembley.
“I think that this is really good stuff. You know, I think it’s the right subtleness considering, you know, we’re months away from all this. You can’t be hitting it hard yet. You got other things to do. But they’re building it. It is really, it’s really good if they do what I think almost everyone expects them to do.”
That discussion quickly turned into direct speculation about what AEW’s championship direction could ultimately become heading into All In.
“I mean, Omega wins in Montreal, right? Defense against Ospreay in London.”
If that ends up being the plan, Omega would reclaim the AEW World Championship before defending it against Ospreay in the main event at Wembley Stadium. Meltzer also revisited last year’s All In conversation and admitted he originally leaned toward Hangman Page over Ospreay because of concerns surrounding Ospreay’s neck issue at the time.
“There’s always going to be the debate like last year, should it have been Page? Should it have been Ospreay? I think that, you know, I would have picked Page at the time and with hindsight, even stronger because Ospreay had the neck problem.”
This year, however, Meltzer made it clear he sees Ospreay as the obvious centerpiece for Wembley based on how AEW has positioned him over the past several months.
“But this year I think that, you know, obviously we all know that Ospreay’s gonna headline in Wembley. I mean, he has to basically, you know, just the way everything’s going, the way the crowd’s reacting to him and all that.”
The bigger question for Meltzer is whether AEW should go into Wembley with Omega or MJF holding the world championship, although he leaned heavily toward Omega because of the comeback story currently surrounding him.
“But the question is, should it be MJF defending or should it be Omega defending, which is bigger?”
Meltzer then explained why he believes AEW may ultimately need to follow through with Omega’s current storyline by giving him another title reign.
“And the story, you know, the fact is, is that I think at the end of the day that Omega might be bigger, but even if he’s not, his time is probably best this year because they’ve done this storyline with him, you know, going for this one last time title run.”
He added that failing to pay off the story with a championship victory could leave the entire angle feeling incomplete.
“And if they don’t pay it off, it’s kind of an unfulfilled storyline.”
Meltzer also floated another possible direction involving MJF and Hangman Adam Page at Wembley, but the main takeaway from the conversation centered around Omega and Ospreay potentially colliding again on AEW’s biggest stage of the year.
If AEW ultimately pulls the trigger on Omega vs. Ospreay for the AEW World Championship at All In, the match would instantly become one of the biggest in company history. Their rivalry already carries enormous weight inside AEW, and adding Wembley Stadium plus the world title would push it to an entirely different level.
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