Kevin Owens opens up about his WrestleMania 35 absence.
During a recent interview with Ariel Helwani for TNT Sports, one-half of the WWE Tag Team Champions Kevin Owens revealed that Paul Heyman encouraged him to threaten to quit over being left off the WrestleMania 35 card in 2019.
“When I wasn’t on WrestleMania 35, a few weeks before, I did not understand why — I understood plans had changed, I was completely fine with it,” Owens said. “I was like, ‘What else am I going to do? I can do something else on the show.’ They’re like, ‘Nah. It doesn’t fit there, it doesn’t fit there, it doesn’t make sense.’ It was driving me insane.”
Owens recalled, “I remember having a talk with Paul Heyman at a show. Maybe it was a Raw or SmackDown, near Gorilla. I was losing my mind. ‘Paul, I can’t believe I’m not on WrestleMania.’ He’s like, ‘I can’t believe it either.’ ‘What do I do?’ ‘Just walk in there and threaten to quit.’ ‘No, that’s not how I’m going to handle this.’ He said, ‘If that’s how you feel.’ It was driving me crazy.
“Then I couldn’t go to WrestleMania 35. I flew to New York, I had some appearances, and the day of the show, I was like, ‘I’m not going to this building.’ I flew back home to watch it with my wife and my kids because I didn’t want to be anywhere near it. I flew back the next morning for more appearances.”
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