WWE Universal Champion Kevin Owens recently spoke with SLAM Sports Wrestling and below is what Owens had to say on winning the WWE Universal Title:
“To win the WWE Universal title, which in essence (is) the same title that Shawn Michaels or Steve Austin held — there’s the WWE World title on SmackDown, but for Raw, the premiere championship is the WWE Universal title — it’s really hard to put into words how that moment felt. That title is as big as anything I’ve achieved in wrestling. I’m going to do everything I can and whenever my title run ends, which I’m not looking to be anytime soon, people will look back and say, ‘Kevin Owens really made that title mean something.’
There were a couple of people. The first one, I don’t want to just say who it is, but I think people can figure it out [Sami Zayn]. It was very emotional because in a lot of ways, we both achieved this. I don’t know how to describe that. It’s our title, in a way, if that makes any sense.
It’s a special moment to get to tell Vince McMahon that you’re not going to regret this and have him say, ‘I’m sure I won’t.’ It was just really something. Jimmy Jacobs, who I’m not sure would be very happy that I mentioned him in this, he works for WWE now and he was there and that was another pretty special moment because he’s seen it from the start, from the moment I got hired until now, he’s there with me every week. We were really close before we got to WWE. For us to share a moment like that, it was pretty cool. Triple H is the reason I’m here. He’s the one who took a chance on me because a lot has been said about how I look and how I don’t have the typical WWE superstar look, even though I feel like over the past three or four years that whole stereotype has been destroyed. Still, it was something that people would always point to as to why they thought I wouldn’t make it in the WWE even if I got hired. Well, not only did I get hired, but last Monday, I won the Universal title and Triple H literally handed it to me. People can say what they want about that, but to me, it was a pretty special moment.”
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
