The Omega Man Starts His Rise To The Top
At the New Beginning in Niigata on February 14, 2016, a match was held between Kenny Omega and Hiroshi Tanahashi, two of the top stars of the promotion where Kenny Omega defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the vacant IWGP Intercontinental Championship.
Days after winning the IWGP Intercontinental Championship, Kenny Omega also won the NEVER Six-Man Openweight Tag Team Titles alongside his Bullet Club stablemates. Omega was challenged by Michael Elgin for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship and Omega defeated Elgin as his first and only title defense. Elgin often found himself losing to Omega in following multi-man tag team matches and he was determined to defeat Omega for the prestigious title. However, soon Elgin and his teammates started picking victories over the Bullet Club.
Kenny Omega was set to defend his IWGP Intercontinental Championship against former champion Hiroshi Tanahashi. However, Tanahashi got injured and his replacement was none other than Michael Elgin who defeated Kenny Omega in a ladder match at Dominion 6.19 to win the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.
Elgin took the title over to different promotions albeit not defending it but he was an inter-promotional talent with the belt much suiting the IWGP Intercontinental Championship. Soon G1 Climax arrived and Elgin had picked up a lot of momentum. During the G1, Elgin had a very strong showing even though he didn’t make it to the finals. After the G1 he got involved in a feud with Los Ingobernables de Japon who was one of the more dominant factions in the world of wrestling. At this point, the cross-promotion deal between ROH and NJPW had picked up full speed. Elgin even defended the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against Donovan Dijak at ROH Field of Honor. Not long after, Tetsuya Naito finally challenged and defeated Michael Elgin to win the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.
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