Kevin Owens Discusses WWE Draft, Sami Zayn, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin

WWE Superstar Kevin Owens recently participated in a media call with JOE.co.uk to promote “SummerSlam” later this month. He discuses a number of topics, including the recent WWE Draft, his relationship with Sami Zayn, meeting “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, and more.

Below are some highlights from the interview:

On his position in the recent WWE Draft:

I was picked way later than I should have been. I mean, I understand not being picked before Roman Reigns or John Cena or Ambrose or Seth Rollins, those guys have been the figureheads of WWE for several years now.

I even understand being picked above Charlotte, who was the Women’s Champion at the time, and who was the face of the Women’s division. Even Finn Balor, who was coming up from NXT – he’s a big deal.

But being picked as late as I was was kind of a slap in the face, to be honest. But I’ll use it as motivation as to why I should be the face of RAW.

On his relationship with Sami Zayn:

We met in 2002 at a random independent wrestling show back home. He annoyed me from the very beginning, I remember that. He was very bouncy and loud. We ended up getting booked on a load of shows back home together and that snowballed to getting booked on a lot of shows in the US together and we ended up paired together by default because we were the two best wrestlers in Quebec. If you were gonna book some Quebec wrestlers, you got us.

It was a friendship by default. That’s why I call him like brother, because you can’t really pick your relatives, you’re born and that’s your brother. Sami ended up my brother – I never asked to travel with him, I never asked to tag with him, I never asked to wrestle him. For all those years it kind of happened.

I don’t know if we clicked from the beginning but we had no choice.

On meeting “Stone Cold” Steve Austin for the first time:

I met Steve Austin in an airport in 2005 and he gave me the best advice I could have ever received. That advice helped me get to where I am today. Sami and I were on a flight to Los Angeles for PWI and saw Steve, took a picture and he told me to just ‘keep running my mouth and never stop talking’. I took that to heart. If you watch my matches on RAW, I clearly I never stop talking even in the middle of a match.

You can find the full interview at this link.

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