At WWE Backlash, the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship match between Viking Raiders and The Street Profits never happened.
Instead, the two teams battled in a cinematic match backstage and throughout the WWE Performance Center. It included a ton of strange moments, including references to Marvel Comics and Star Wars, but the weirdest had to be when they had to team up to battle Akira Tozawa and his ninjas. This group included a gigantic... terrifyingly tall ninja.
On Monday Night Raw, the Street Profits and Viking Raiders decided they should team up as their own cinematic universe, with t-shirts, toys and more, but they then had to face the ninjas again. The match saw the three smaller ninjas and Tozawa compete, and they were no match for the Street Profits and Viking Raiders.
When the big ninja came in, things looked like they were breaking down... until the surprise return of the Big Show. That's when Tozawa took his big ninja and left. Fans never got a chance to see the seven-foot-tall Big Show standing face-to-face with the ninja. If that had happened, fans would have seen how big this man is.
The ninja is NXT superstar Jordan Omogbehin, and he stands 7 foot 3 inches tall: the biggest superstar in WWE. He is two inches taller than The Great Khali, and he can do things that Khali only dreamed of doing. In a workout last November with Scott Hall and Kevin Nash in NXT, Omogbehin caught the attention of Nash, who said that this is not "Oz 2" in his eyes at all, (Oz being the ill-fated and ridiculous character Nash portrayed when he was a youngster in WCW). The former WWE champion, who himself stands 6'10", also looked tiny next to Omogbehin.
Omogbehin is from Nigeria and moved to the United States, where he played college basketball. He played for both Morgan State and USF, where he was listed as 7'3" and 320-pounds as a senior in 2015. He made his in-ring debut at NXT in 2019 with manager Malcolm Bivens. While Bivens worked with him at live events, the two never worked on television, and Backlash was his on-screen debut.
It is similar to when WWE introduced Braun Strowman. He saw little action in the ring in NXT on TV but came up with the Wyatt Family. He did little but stand around and work as muscle and is now the WWE Universal Champion years later. As big as Strowman is, however, at 6'8", he is dwarfed by Omogbehin.
While WWE could have left the appearance as a one-off appearance at Backlash, the fact that Omogbehin came out the next night and WWE brought back its long-time giant in Big Show is a sign that creative may be ready to move with the big guy. Big Show put over Braun Strowman. He put over Drew McIntyre. He is a guy who can come out and put over the next giant, and that might be what Omogbehin needs.
During his training in NXT, Omogbehin was a work-in-progress, but he has been there for over a year now. His matches initially featured simple big-man power moves. He used a bodyslam where he walked around the ring with his opponent before slamming them in a sign of strength. He used the Iron Claw as a pinning move early on, but that changed as he moved on with Bivens as his manager. He added moves like the Big Boot and used the knockout punch as his finishing move after that. With Big Show using the knockout punch, the table might be set for the two as Omogbehin's debut feud.
Not having fans there in attendance might also help him. A big man trying to get his feel in the ring could die a painful death with fans who don't know him and don't care about him. With no fans, Omogbehin can work out the kinks, and there isn't anyone better than Big Show to work with, in that case. The WWE might have found its next big giant, and if Kevin Nash is right, Jordan Omogbehin could be the best yet.