Kevin Owens On When He Found Out He Was Winning WWE Universal Title, Relationship With Vince, HHH

Source: Talk Is Jericho

On episode 281 of Talk Is Jericho, WWE Universal Champion Kevin Owens talked about when he found out he was winning WWE Monday Night RAW’s top prize, how Triple H handing him the championship on RAW was a fitting moment, and whether he has a good relationship with Vince McMahon.

According to Owens, he found out he was winning the Universal title around 5 pm on the night he won. For ‘K.O.’, Triple H handing him the championship on RAW was “poetic” insofar as Triple H was the person behind-the-scenes who always believed in him.

“It couldn’t have been better, but not just for storyline purposes, the ‘where do we go from here?’, ‘why did Triple H do it?’, ‘what’s going to happen with Seth [Rollins] and Triple H?’, this and that. It obviously opens a lot of doors for interesting stuff TV-wise. But for me personally, when you win the world title, people assume, ‘oh, you probably want it to be this incredible battle where you claw, blood, sweat, and tears, and you just had this apparent moment.’ Besides the fact that I’m a heel, Triple H got me here. He made the call to hire me. He made the call to take a chance on me because he hired somebody who wasn’t a cookie cutter WWE Superstar. And there would have been a chance where somebody would have been like, ‘you hired him? Are you kidding?’

“Even when I was hired, I was told by [WWE Senior Director or Talent Development] …

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