Kevin Owens comments on the fan footage attack.
After WWE Bad Blood, fans outside of the arena captured video of Kevin Owens attacking Cody Rhodes in front of his tour bus.
Obviously, the footage went viral, allowing Owens to cement his heel turn and start a lengthy rivalry with Rhodes.
While speaking with Chris Van Vliet for a new interview, Owens gave all the credit to Triple H for the segment, saying that he felt confident in the idea. Owens also spoke about how he wasn't sure if the idea was going to work out.
“It wasn’t me. That was Triple H. That was his idea. He felt confident in doing it that way. I was not sure. I’m like I don’t know, is there even going to be enough people there? It turns out he was completely right, there was and yeah, it’s just a different way of telling the stories and he’s got a different mentality than Vince had. It’s really interesting, and people really responded to it. The same thing with Randy, the way I ended up ultimately turning on Randy it was on TV, but it was done differently. It was something that was released later as well, and you just kind of caught the tail end of it on TV, but then they did the security footage after. He wants to tell stories differently, and he’s willing to try stuff out and see what sticks and I think that makes the show way more interesting. It doesn’t mean it’s always gonna work, there might be sometimes it doesn’t land, but we’re trying different things and new things, and I think that’s so important in wrestling. When it gets monotonous and repetitive, no matter how good the matches are and the promos are, if you feel like you’ve seen it before and it’s okay, I’ve seen it before once. If you see a rematch once or twice, great. But there were times over I’d say, in 2008, 2009, and I was an avid fan. I would never miss any WWE shows, even when I was an independent wrestler traveling the world. But I started paying a lot less attention in 08/09 because I felt like this is literally the same thing every single week. There were times where even when I was here, like 2016, 2017 I felt like we just did this two weeks ago and now we’re doing it again. To me, when it gets like that it’s just not the way to we need to do things. I think we need different things. There’s new things. We need to try stuff, and it has to feel unpredictable and exciting.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Owens talked about getting to use the package piledriver in WWE. Check out his full comments on the matter here.
Owens is currently out of action after announcing that he needs neck surgery on the April 4 edition of SmackDown. Learn more by clicking here.
Special thanks to Chris Van Vliet for the quote(s).
