Coming up on today's Afternews, Kevin Owens has returned to WWE. It's really weird.

MJF is in pain. Tony Carnes named the new four pillars of AEW. And AJ Styles was happy to lose

the WWE title. Aren't we all, apparently? I'm Michael Hanfleut. And I'm Phil Chambers.

And this is the After News. And yeah, we start with with them well what should be massive right

Kevin Oins is back um he's been gone for over a year uh basically invisible on

wb screens uh he was I think his last match if I remember correctly might have been

that like brutal war he had a Sammy Zane at elimination chamber generally

forgotten about because it was the night that John Cena turned heel and nothing else was going to get the headlines that night. Yep, same. He was due to work at Randy Orton at WrestleMania. They had to pull that match. Joe Hendry got the spot. We all remember that. And yeah, it increasingly looked, I don't want to say bleak, that's unfair, but all things have gone quiet on when Kevin Owens might return. Until last night on NXT, when it was announced that as part of the Great American

Bash this weekend, NXT's first PLE on C-Dope, like total coincidence going head-to-head

with AW&AW's forbidden door.

That was an accident, guys.

We just didn't check the calendar.

Not again. That was an accident, guys. We just didn't check the calendar. Not again. Could not believe that has occurred. Yeah, it's going to be main evented by Tony DiAngelo versus Naraku. But perhaps the most interesting element of this now is the tailgate party that's going on beforehand. This is taking place at the performance centre in Orlando, Florida, not on the road in one of the which has, which has been the case of late with their NXT's PLEs.

And I guess to make that bigger, they're going to be doing a tailgate, which is going to be hosted by Busted Open's Dave LaGreca ask questions.

And special guest, Kevin Owens, if you were in the Florida area and want to go to what is effectively a wrestling barbecue before a premium live event, why not go and see Kevin Owens' return to television for the first time in nearly a year? This is really odd, man. I don't know how much of this is going to be filmed or aired. Like, I would imagine they're going to do interstitial stuff, or they're going to have, like, the show opening maybe have like all the fans in the car park going Ernst XT

with I the busted open host

and Kevin Owens like all time

WV like icon at this point

wrestling legend multiple time champion

can't wait for it and be back in the ring

if indeed he's making his return

next stuff not to be messed around with would love to have him back uh nxte at the great american bash is your chance

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