Is Kevin Owens leaving WWE?
Felger & Massarotti
Beasley Media Group
4.1 • 981 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
James Stewart and Mike Riley talked about the reporting that Kevin Owens contract is up and he might be leaving WWE for AEW in the future, the 2021 PWI 500 rankings, the Roman vs Balor build and James shot down the reporting about Adam Cole becoming a manager in WWE.
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| 0:00.0 | B-Pod Studios |
| 0:03.0 | Hi, this is Kevin Owens, and you're listening to the Wrestling Inside the Ropes podcast with James Stewart and Mike Riley. |
| 0:18.3 | Great name, Wrestling Inside the Ropes podcast. So what does that mean you guys aren't allowed to discuss if anything happens outside the ropes? What if somebody gets clothesline over the top rope? Do you guys cover the Royal Rumble? These are questions I need to answer. Anyway, you're listening to Wrestling Inside the Ropes with two geniuses who came up with this name. |
| 0:49.3 | Mike Riley, the big news of the week in pro wrestling seems to be around the status of Kevin Owens. |
| 0:50.4 | On September 7th, Sean Ross of Fightful tweeted and posted on his Patreon page that Kevin Owen's contract is up and it's sooner than we all think. |
| 1:00.8 | The report from Fightful reads, quote, we've learned from a WWE official that WWE restructured several contracts ahead of the pandemic. |
| 1:10.2 | And for whatever reason, Kevin Owen's deal was changed |
| 1:12.7 | to expire in January 2022. We were not told of any additional terms of the deal or specifically |
| 1:19.9 | why it was shortened. We'll work to find out if any other details were adjusted, unquote. |
| 1:25.4 | In a May 2018 interview, Kevin Owens said that he had signed a |
| 1:30.9 | five-year extension with WWE that would keep him with the company into 2023. Kevin Owens on |
| 1:37.4 | Twitter at 836 p.m. on September 7th tweeted and deleted the coordinates for Mount Rushmore. |
| 1:45.5 | Mount Rushmore was a group that Owens, known as Kevin Steen, was part of with the Young |
| 1:50.5 | Bucks in Adam Cole in Ring of Honor and PWG. |
| 1:54.5 | The Youngbucks changed the location of their Twitter handle to, quote, their, unquote. Kevin Owens changed his Twitter handle |
| 2:03.9 | location to quote almost there unquote. So all signs point to Kevin Owens leaving |
| 2:12.1 | WW and going to AEW when his contract is up or he's just effing with us because it's social media, |
| 2:20.0 | and that's what some people do at times. |
| 2:22.4 | What do I think? |
| 2:23.4 | I think Kevin Owens is leaving. |
| 2:25.5 | I don't know. |
| 2:26.2 | I assume it's AEW. |
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