I t’s a story Kevin Owens loves to tell, a slice of professional wrestling life, where great big men have to bring other great big men down to size, where there’s room for giants but not outsized egos — at least not behind the curtain. It goes back to 2014, when Owens first signed on with WWE and reported to the company’s performance centre in Orlando. He had already worked his way up through smaller circuits and paid his dues when he was introduced to Terry Taylor, a wrestling lifer who started out in the ring back in the ’80s and worked in all aspects of the game. When the two met, Taylor was a trainer for NXT, the college of hard knocks that develops new arrivals to the company and keeps the supply chain of talent moving. Owens was trying to make a good impression — WWE had always been his goal.
Taylor sat Owens down for a heart-to-heart. “Triple H sees something in you,” Taylor told him. But before the flattery went to Owens’s head and let him feel too special, Taylor attached a qualifier, his expert opinion: “I don’t see it.”
It gets a laugh every time Owens tells it, and not just because he has since gone on to become a key talent in the WWE universe. It also gets a laugh, because it’s easy to understand how someone, even a veteran like Taylor, might miss that hard-to-define something that Triple H, the WWE vice-president in charge of Talent, Events and Creative, spotted. Owens is a decent size for a pro, but he’s not one you’d pick out of a lineup to become a WWE superstar. He’s not exactly leading-man material, no candidate to star in his own action movie. With his bushy beard, his round face and a body sculpted seemingly from butter, you’d cast him as a bouncer, maybe a biker. On looks alone, he’s hard to pigeonhole as either face or heel.
How Kevin Owens ran his mouth to WWE stardom and a fight with Stone Cold
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