Kevin Owens: “You’re Watching the Real Me on WWE Television”

The current Intercontinental Champion Kevin Owens is not typically what WWE is looking for in their superstars. Owens is vibrant, and he’s different. That is what makes him so good.

Recently, Kevin Owens did an interview with The Mirror promoting Wrestlemania and the upcoming tour of the United Kingdom. During the discussion, he gave the deeper meaning of his “character” on screen and the realism behind it.

You can read the full interview right here. Below is what Owens had to say about his on-screen character and the realism behind it:

“You know maybe so. I don’t feel like I’m a character, I certainly don’t feel like I’m a gimmick, I am who I am. Owens may not be my real last name but it’s close as it gets because it’s my son’s name, Owen, that’s why I picked that name, and Kevin Owens is who I am, I can’t stress that enough. Obviously I’m not going round town being as smarky as I am outwardly, but you know, on the inside I am nearly exactly that guy.”

“The bright lights, the music and the ring of Raw and SmackDown that’s my platform to kind of let it out, but really what you see on TV every day is a big part of who I am. So I don’t know if that’s why it connects with people, because it’s very genuine, but that’s one thing even on the independent scene before my time with WWE, that I always made sure to bring out, that everything I do is genuine. I feel like that’s what connects with audiences. If they can tell you’re genuine then they will get behind you or they will hate you. Either way they will react to you because they feel like what they’re watching is reality… and that’s me.

I’ll be honest I don’t like that word gimmick. I think a lot of people use it and don’t really know what it means – I don’t know what it means. I never connected with people who had outlandish characters if you will, I connected with the people who stayed true to themselves, which is why I was the biggest ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin fan there was. I’m a ‘no frills’ kind of guy.”

Do you think Kevin Owens vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin would have been a great feud?