Kevin Owens Discusses His Family, Being Congratulated on Winning Universal Title

WWE superstar Kevin Owens recently sat down with SLAM! Sports to promote tickets for the 2016 “Survivor Series” in Toronto, Ontario, Canada going on sale. He discusses a number of topics, including the inspiration he gets from his family, who congratulated him on winning the Universal Championship, Triple H, and more.

Below are some excerpts from the interview:

On his family:

“My wife, she’s been with me for 10 years,” Owens said. “She saw the ups and the downs and she saw so many people tell me I would never make it to WWE, but she never doubted it.”

“My kids put up with their dad being gone a lot. My daughter’s two so she’s not super aware of it, she’s just happy when I come back, but my son’s eight, he’s seen me do this his whole life. He knows how much it means to me, he knows how much I enjoy it,” Owens added, revealing that his son may one day follow in his footsteps. “I don’t know if it’s going to stick, but for now, he looks like that’s what he wants to do, too. He’s very tolerant of the sacrifices we have to make in order for me to do this, and he really enjoys WWE itself, so that certainly helps. Without them, I just wouldn’t be here.”

On who congratulated him after winning the Universal Championship:

“There were a couple of people,” Owen answered when asked about who greeted him in the locker room following his Universal title victory. “The first one, I don’t want to just say who it is, but I think people can figure it out. 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.”

On Triple H:

“Triple H is the reason I’m here,” Owens said of the wrestling legend-turned executive. “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.”

You can find the entire interview at this link.

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