Kenny Omega ಞis considered to be one of the best "sellers" in the business. But how did he become so 🐻adept at pretending to be hurt? Well, according to a recent interview on , his selling philosophy amounts to a very specific game of make-believe.
“I think only experience can help develop (selling techniques) because when you first start out, you almost don’t even know what an injury is or what it feels lik♏e. You’re invincible, right? But then, over the years, you know what a knee injury feels like; you know what happens when you stub your toe; when you bang your elbow or you hurt your neck, and it’s almost immobilizing. When you look at things that way, ‘okay, my neck actually hurts. There’s a wrestler way of selling things where 95% of the guys will sell it a certain way, but if it actually does hurt, how would you act and would it just be, ‘it hurts for two seconds because I took a DDT’ or is it actually going to bother you for most of the match? That’s the way I prefer to look at things and it’s not even because I’m a stickler for adding nuances to the matches. I just don’t want to insult anyone’s intelligence who has been injured.
“I try to think of things in levels, pain levels and such, injury levels, like, ‘how🍷 bad is this injury supposed to be? How much should I be sell🌄ing?’ And I think it also helps with the emotional attachment of fans when you’re trying to tell a story as well.
“With today’s athlete in professional wrestling, there are so many guys that with their athletics could easily put together a four-and-a-half star match just based on the moves itself and telling kind of a fake story. But I think it’s the little things, how you sell, your body, how you convey your emotions in the match whether it’s💜 the emotions you’re really feeling or you’re just a great actor and you can make the people believe your emotions, I think that’s what pushes it to making it a five star, a six star match. I think that’s what people aren’t doing in the ring. For me personally, I think too much emphasis is put on, ‘okay, how cool are my moves?’ and ‘how do I string them together?’ ‘How do I get this move in the match within this time limit?’ and that’s it. And ‘how should a wrestling match look?'”
So, according to Kenny Omega, all any professional wrestler has to do to become a😼 w💝orld-class "salesman" is to mentally go back in time to when they were a child playing pretend in the backyard. Just use your imagination!
( would be awesome at selling.)
You can listen to the entire interview .
