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On March 17, Street Fighter 6 is getting a brand new DLC character: the professional wrestling-inspired Alex, and All Elite Wrestling’s personal Kenny Omega is the person behind the movement seize. At IGN Fan Fest 2026, he defined how the chance to do the movement seize really got here out of a easy misunderstanding.
“When the information broke and so they advised me, we signed the NDAs and we all know who the characters are and Alex will, in reality, be one among them. They usually stated, ‘For you being such a great sport, it would be cool if we put a transfer of yours in,’ possibly one or two or a taunt or one thing,” Omega advised IGN.
“I had stated, ‘Wow, that will be nice. I simply do not know once I may match that into my schedule to do the mocap for it.’ They usually’d stated, ‘Oh, wait, you do the mocap for it?’ I stated, ‘Yeah, is that what you had been speaking about, or no?’ They stated, ‘Oh my, in the event you would do the mocap for it, that will be superior.’ And so a misunderstanding on my half is what led to me really going to the studio and doing a slew of mocap for the character. If there was ever a greater time to be silly, that was one among them, as a result of it labored out in my favor fully to not perceive what they had been speaking about at that second. So due to that one dialogue, I bought invited again to the following yr’s Tokyo Sport Present. After which earlier than doing the sport present, I finished over at Osaka, the place they do the mocap for Capcom. And we hammered it out in sooner or later. It was a grueling 10- or 11-hour shoot. I keep in mind shedding like 8 or 9 kilos of water weight, but it surely was so value it and so enjoyable.”
He additionally revealed that the builders had been open to strategies – he can see how his concepts had been included into the ultimate sport animations – and that wrestling with out an viewers wasn’t as alien of an expertise as individuals would possibly anticipate.
“I believe due to COVID, I bought used to wrestling and performing in entrance of nobody. It jogged my memory of being again into an empty area and simply having cameras throughout me, however there is not any sound. There is not any adulation. There is not any individuals. I see employees right here and there, but it surely introduced again reminiscences of the COVID period, for positive.”
Alex first appeared in 1997 Street Fighter III: New Technology in arcades. Early idea artwork exhibits the skilled wrestler character was initially positioned as the brand new face of the franchise. In Street Fighter 6, his tremendous strikes embrace Raging Spear, Sledgecross Hammer, and The Ultimate Jail. He additionally has an alternate stage 2 tremendous known as the Omega Wing Buster, which is a sequence of strikes impressed by Kenny Omega’s personal trio of signature strikes, together with the V-Set off, Snap Dragon Suplex, and naturally, the One Winged Angel.
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Rachel Weber is the Head of Editorial Improvement at IGN and an elder millennial. She’s been an expert nerd since 2006 when she bought her begin on Official PlayStation Journal within the UK, and has since labored for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, horror motion pictures, horror video games, Crimson Lifeless Redemption 2, and her Love and Deepspace boyfriends.