It’s said that Omega emerged from the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship clash with Ospreay at AEW x NJPW Forbidden 2023 in “relatively good health,” with “The Cleaner” reportedly telling colleagues backstage that he was doing fine. Omega addressed the comments made about the safety of the Tiger Driver ’91. 

“People that wanted to s**t on something or people that want to frown upon something, or for people that want to say, ‘Well, if it were me, I wouldn’t have done that.’ I didn’t get to where I was by being able to do things that everyone else could do,” Omega added. “I realized, and I recognized that I do have special talents that maybe not everyone else can do.

“Without revealing too much, I think a lot about my health. I think a lot about life after wrestling. I think a lot about my current life. I think about next week’s ‘Dynamite’ and the week after that. I would never do something I didn’t trust myself in performing 100 percent.”