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After training with Jay for a year, 16-year-old Smith made his professional wrestling debut in the year 2000. Smith ended his ice hockey career plans, turning down a scholarship offer from Bemidji State University and began training under TRCW promoter Bobby Jay, whom he met while he was stacking shelves at an IGA store. Smith first became interested in a career in professional wrestling after one of his friends from Transcona Collegiate Institute (TCI) began training with Top Rope Championship Wrestling (TRCW) in Winnipeg. He also worked at branches of retailers IGA and Costco. Growing up, Smith played ice hockey as a goalie. Smith's affinity toward professional wrestling began during childhood when he watched tapes of WWE (then-WWF)'s Saturday Night's Main Event, which became his favorite program. As of 2016, Smith's mother works in family services while his father works for the Canadian government as a transport officer. He grew up in Transcona, a Winnipeg suburb. Tyson Smith was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on October 16, 1983. He was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 2020. He has also attained the latter publication's Match of the Year distinction three times one of those matches, in which Omega competed against Kazuchika Okada in a two out of three falls match at Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall in June 2018, received a seven-star rating from sports journalist Dave Meltzer, the highest rating Meltzer has ever awarded a professional wrestling match.
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Hailed as one of the best professional wrestlers in the world, Omega was named Sports Illustrated 's Wrestler of the Year in 2017 and topped Pro Wrestling Illustrated 's list of top 500 male wrestlers the following year and in 2021. In AEW, he has held the AEW World Championship, AEW World Tag Team Championship, and AEW World Trios Championship. While wrestling in the last two promotions, he held the Impact World Championship and AAA Mega Championship.

Throughout his career, Omega has also performed as part of independent promotions worldwide, including DDT Pro-Wrestling, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, as well as larger promotions, such as Ring of Honor, Impact Wrestling, and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide. A member and one-time leader of the Bullet Club stable, he incorporates elements from video games in his persona. He performs in All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is also an executive vice president.īefore joining AEW in 2019, Omega was known for his tenure in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) from 2014 to 2019, during which he held the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, as well as other titles. Tyson Smith (born October 16, 1983), better known by the ring name Kenny Omega, is a Canadian-born professional wrestler.
