KEVIN OWENS
Trevor Dame Apr 4, 2022. 8 minute read
CM Punk and Kevin Owens Aren’t Ruled By Their Big Dreams
There’s a story Kevin Owens has told multiple times. In 2005, when first trying to break into ROH as Kevin Steen, Owens got some pushback about wrestling in a t-shirt, something that he has said he just feels more comfortable working in. As Kevin tells it, booker Gabe Sapolsky wasn’t…
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mer Mar 21, 2022. 5 minute read
Steve Austin Cracks Open His Final Can of Whoop Ass
As a young, hip, and extremely cool millennial, my memories of the 1990s are fuzzy at best, admittedly. This means I unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on who you ask) have little to no idea what it was like to experience a time period where wrestling was actually pretty cool. I…
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Miles Schneiderman Jan 18, 2022. 8 minute read
What Is the Legacy of NXT’s Black and Gold Era? (Part 1)
June 20th, 2022, will mark the ten-year anniversary of NXT – the wrestling promotion, not the scripted reality show. NXT as we knew it, however, isn’t making it to that milestone. The first week of the new year made it abundantly clear that “NXT 2.0” wasn’t just a change in…
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Joseph Anthony Montecillo Jan 5, 2022. 6 minute read
Matches On WWE Day 1 and Raw Showed What Brock Lesnar Brings to a Match
Brock Lesnar once again holds the WWE Championship. In other news, the sky is blue and grass is green. I understand the frustrations that people have with the result of the WWE Championship match at Day 1. In spite of his recent face turn, Brock Lesnar still represents the status…
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J.J. McGee Dec 13, 2021. 5 minute read
¡Olé!: Three Essential El Generico Matches
El Generico: the man, the myth, the legend. Sometimes erroneously referred to as “Sami Zayn when he was on the indies,” a statement which is clearly not true as Zayn himself has denied it, and El Generico is retired and unavailable for comment. (More earnestly, it’s totally accurate to say…
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mer Nov 10, 2021. 5 minute read
Dear Kevin Owens: Get Worse
Since I’ve seen at least one episode of WWE television, and I possess a moderate amount of taste, I think Kevin Owens is simply the tits. Whatever role the man is playing on screen, whatever feud he’s shoved into or title scene he’s aiming for, he always puts on bangers.…
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J.J. McGee Jun 25, 2021. 6 minute read
Karma: On Kevin Owens and the Psychology of Injury
During Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn’s match at Hell in a Cell, Zayn did his tope con giro—a flying leap over the top rope—to knock down Owens. Owens came up from the move clutching at his left arm, and spent the rest of the match in visible pain, having to…
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J.J. McGee Apr 23, 2021. 6 minute read
Fight Forever: How Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens’ WrestleMania Match Redefined Their Rivalry
Let me start at the beginning. No, no. We don’t have enough time. Let me start at the end. On April 12, 2021, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn faced off in a singles match at WrestleMania as Owens tried to shake Zayn out of his conspiratorial obsessions and bring him…
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