Monday, June 27th, 2016

Xavier Woods & Kenny Omega Crash CEO 2016

  

If you haven't heard by now, this past weekend's CEO '16 went down in history as one of the most exciting fighting game events to date. One of the highlights was the appearances of WWE Superstar Xavier Woods and NJPW Champion Kenny Omega. As previously reported on TFG, both pro-wrestlers are avid fighting game fans. At CEO, the two squared off in a Street Fighter V exhibition and even a DDR battle. Below are some videos of their encounter on CEO's main stage. Also continue scrolling down for some personal photos featuring yours truly with the pro-wrestling legends!
 

 
After the SFV battles, they headed over to the "JebaileyLand" arcade (which hosted TEKKEN 7: Fated Retribution and a ton of other arcade games). They kicked off their JebaileyLand tour with a DDR battle.
 

 
Unfortunately I missed seeing their SFV exhibition live because I was playing in the TEKKEN 7 tournament over in JebaileyLand (13th place out of 256 baby!), but I did catch the end of their DDR battle and nabbed some pictures with the guys afterwards.
 

        

 
I also got to talk with Mr. Omega for a bit, and asked him a few questions about his experience with fighting games. Like myself, he grew up with Street Fighter 2 on SNES (and arcade) and has been a fighting game fan all his life! In case you don't know, Kenny uses a ton of fighting game / video game homages in his pro-wrestling moveset. He also put in some serious practice time with SFV to prepare for CEO (which paid off)! Below is his CEO training video from 2 weeks back.
 

Big congratulations to CEO Founder & Organizer Alex Jebailey for this groundbreaking FGC/WWE/NJPW cross-promotion and another successful event (that I love attending every year). Speaking of whom, during CEO '16, Jebailey dressed up as WWE's John Cena and interrupted Kenny Omega's match with Justin Wong. Watch below to see how it all unfolded.
 

 
Last but not least, Xavier Woods posted this "thank you CEO" video on Twitter that also features Kenny Omega (below). 
 


(click image above to open video on Twitter)

 
In case you haven't, check out TFG's previous articles on Kenny Omega and Xavier Woods from back in January 2016 and December 2015.
~TFG Webmaster, Frank Joseph | @Fighters_Gen
 

 Sources:    CapcomFighters, @XavierWoodsPhD, Kenny Omega (YT)UpUpDownDownv2labBasedMonster

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