Kevin Owens took to Twitter a few hours ago to fuel up rumors on his future with the WWE. With a change to his bio and a deleted tweet, speculations are all around that he could soon be leaving the WWE.
The Smackdown superstar tweeted the coordinates to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. He then changed the location in his Twitter bio to “Almost there,” which was seen as a reference to the Mount Rushmore coordinates. Those tweets have since been deleted. His Twitter bio and profile picture were also changed in due course.
It should be noted that Mount Rushmore is the name of a stable that Kevin Owens was in with Adam Cole and AEW World Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks in 2013-2014. Soon after, Owens ended up leaving the stable when he signed with WWE in 2014. Cole and The Bucks triple superkick-ed him to disband him from the group.
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In an update to the situation, Kevin Owens’ WWE contract is reportedly expiring within the next 6 months. Per the reports of Fightful Select, the former Universal Champion’s deal with the WWE runs out in January 2022 and not sometime in early 2023.
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Kevin Owens’s WWE deal is no more intact until 2023
It was noted in the report that WWE restructured several contracts ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic, and The Prizefighter’s contract was one of those deals that were changed. The restructuring led to the expiry date being changed to January 2022 and not in 2023.
Earlier to this, Kevin Owens stated during a spring 2018 interview with TVA Sports in Canada that he had re-signed with WWE for 5 years,
“Hopefully I do not see why I will not finish my career with WWE. I just recently signed a new five-year contract with them. I do not intend to go anywhere when my contract ends. If the WWE wants to continue, if I want to continue and my family is ready for me to continue, I do not see why it would not happen. If [my career] ends tomorrow, I would be very satisfied with the career I had as a professional wrestler.”
This interview was the reason that everybody thought that Kevin Owens was staying with the WW until 2023 but it appears that’s not the case. Storyline-wise, he’s not in a very good state, either on Smackdown. So it makes sense if opts out to leave the WWE and join AEW where several of his WWE colleagues are currently under contract.
