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Kevin Owens On Conflicting Emotions After Finn Balor Vacated Title, ROH Alumi Having Success In WWE
- Updated: September 19, 2016
Source: Talk Is Jericho
WWE Universal Champion Kevin Owens was recently a guest on Talk Is Jericho. Among other things, the Jeri-KO members discussed what it is like for Owens to be on top of WWE with some of his closest friends, Finn Bálor’s sidelining injury, and Owens’ ‘Heartbreak Kid’ fandom.
According to Owens, it is “really crazy” to see the success he and his friends from the independent professional wrestling scene have attained in WWE.
“We knew we all had the same goal, right? We’d be in a Ring Of Honor locker room or a PWG locker room or whatever and it’d be me, Sami [Zayn], Neville, Daniel Bryan, or Seth Rollins, or even, he might not be happy if I say, but Jimmy Jacobs, who now works here behind-the-scenes.”
Owens continued, “so now we’re all together here, and, obviously, Bryan isn’t wrestling anymore and that’s a shame, but he’s still, you know what I mean? He’s still there. Now RAW and SmackDown [have] split rosters, but it’s crazy. Like, I was just sitting at catering with Sami and Jimmy and Seth and [Jericho] came to sit with us. And we’re just, that’s what we used to do at Ring Of Honor except there was no catering, so we’d bring our own food and just kind of sit at the same table. I don’t know. It’s pretty wild to see that. Like not only did we make it, but we’re all pretty successful here. That’s the coolest part. Yeah, and you know, Finn, Cass, all those guys… I didn’t meet Finn until I came to WWE or to NXT when we both got there. I didn’t meet Cass until, even though he did a couple years in the independents, I didn’t meet Cass until then too, but they’re very much a part of the crew as well, in terms of guys who just grinded to get here and always dreamed to be here and now we all are. And it’s a pretty incredible feeling.”
The longest reigning WWE Universal Champion called Bálor’s recent shoulder injury “heart-wrenching”. Owens went on to say that he told Bálor that the silver lining in the situation is that he …
