WWE Raw star and a former WWE Universal champion Kevin Owens who is also a former three times WWE United States champion recently explained why his career was linked to Sami Zayn and he was not mad at him for what he did at Survivor Series 2022.
At Survivor Series 2022 WWE organized WarGames match for the first time on the main roster. WarGames match had been a signature of WCW which never got booked after the death of the promotion in 2001, but that is until 2017 when Triple H organised a WarGames match in NXT. In 2022 he brought the war games action to the main roster after becoming the Head of Creative of WWE. He organised a total of two WarGames matches, one for women and one for men.
Kevin Owens Reveals Why He Is Not Mad At Sami Zayn
On the men’s WarGames match, the Bloodline was challenged by the team of The Brawling Brutes, Drew McIntyre and Kevin Owens. Owens’ best friend Sami Zayn was on the side of Bloodline. Throughout the build up of the match, Owens tried to get Sami out of the Bloodline. There were event doubts that Sami would not go against his best friend since he kept on avoiding physical contacts with him during the build up.
But at Survivor Series, he only helped Bloodline to win the match but betrayed his best friend for Bloodline as well. It earned him respect from the entire Bloodline, including from Jey Uso who never wanted him in the Bloodline.
After this incident, everybody thought Owens would turn on Sami, but that did not happen. Owens clarified that he was pretty much done with Sami. But there are views that these two will team up to challenge for the Tag Team championships at WrestleMania 39.
Kevin Owens who is also a former three times WWE United States champion recently spoke to the After The Bell podcast where he explained why his career was linked to Sami Zayn and he was not mad at him for what he did at Survivor Series 2022. He said;
“I really can’t blame him for everything I’ve done to him over the last 20 years. And I’m talking before WWE as well. So yes, the sentiment I really had is just our careers really have been linked forever. And in WWE, even if you just look at the last eight years from the moment I started NXT to now, even when we’re not on the same show, our careers are somehow parallel, people still lump us together
“I think we’ve just done this for a long time. We’ve really helped each other throughout our careers a lot. We’ve probably held each other back as well, just because of the constant pairing in people’s minds, even when we’re not together. I know for a fact I’ll tell you this back in 2017; in people’s minds, he and I were so just one. If he got heat backstage for something, I’d get the heat too, even if I have nothing to do with it.” Said Kevin Owens.
“We got kicked off a Europe tour once together, for something that I don’t think either of us had anything to really be blamed for, but I was barely involved in that. Like it’s just no, get those guys out of here. It wasn’t just get one of them, both of them. Because literally everything from that aspect, what I said Monday stands, I think it’s just time to be done
“He’s thriving. I meant when I said on Monday too. People are seeing the Sami Zayn that I’ve known was there for 20 years. I don’t know why it took so long for people to really take notice and really give him the credit he deserves because he’s been incredible in WWE the whole time he’s been here, but the last few months have obviously opened a lot of people’s eyes to him, and it’s great, but I just don’t think it’s optimal for our careers to be parallel anymore.”
H/T and transcribed by WrestleZone