Owens chats the post-Bad Blood angle and him being able to use the package piledriver.
It was after WWE’s Bad Blood pay-per-view came to a close that the feud between Kevin Owens and Cody Rhodes officially kicked off.
Fan footage was captured of Rhodes walking to his tour bus and then Owens showed up. The two were exchanging words and it was not long before Owens started beating Rhodes down.
While guest appearing on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Owens spoke about the idea to rely on fans to capture video of the attack and share it out to social media. He credited Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque for the idea and said Levesque just has a different creative mentality than Vince McMahon had.
It wasn’t me. That was Triple H, that was his idea (to rely on fans to film my attack on Cody Rhodes after WWE Bad Blood). He felt confident in doing it that way. I was not sure. I’m like, ‘I don’t know, man. Is there even going to be enough people there?’ It turns out he was completely right, there was and yeah, it was just a different way of telling the stories and he’s got a different mentality than Vince (McMahon) had, and it’s really interesting and people really responded to it and the same thing with Randy (Orton). The way I ended up ultimately turning on Randy, it was on TV but it was done differently. It was something that was released later as well and you just kind of caught the tail end of it on TV but then, they did the security footage after. He wants to tell stories differently and he’s willing to try stuff out and see what sticks and I think that makes the show way more interesting. It doesn’t mean it’s always gonna work. There might be sometimes it doesn’t land. But, we’re trying different things and new things and I think that’s so important in wrestling. When it gets monotonous and repetitive, no matter how good the matches are and the promos are, if you feel like you’ve seen it before — and it’s okay to have seen it before once. If you see a rematch once or twice, great. But man, there were times over — I’d say in 2008, 2009 — and I was an avid fan. I would never miss any WWE shows, even when I was an independent wrestler traveling the world. But I started paying a lot less attention in ‘08, ‘09 because I felt like this is literally the same thing every single week, and there were times where, you know, even when I was here, like 2016, 2017, I felt like we just did this two weeks ago and now we’re doing it again, and to me, when it gets like that, it’s just not the way we need to do things. I think we need different things. There’s new things. We need to try stuff and it has to feel unpredictable and exciting.
Further speaking about his feud with Rhodes, another high point was at Saturday Night’s Main Event when Owens delivered a package piledriver to Rhodes.
It was the first time Owens used the move in WWE. He said he’d been asking to do it for a while. Owens said he knew Penta was coming to WWE and joked that he would have lost ‘his sh*t’ if Penta got to do the move before him.
Well, the package piledriver was something I’ve asked many times before and it was always, ‘No. Not right now. Not today, doesn’t work, can’t do it.’ Until eventually it was, ‘Yeah, okay, let’s do it,’ and then, I didn’t feel like hitting it on Randy (Orton) was the best decision. I thought a normal piledriver was enough for Randy because Randy is gigantic. Quite frankly, I didn’t think I could get him up for the package piledriver because of the way his body needs to be. He’s just too massive. But yeah, and then, Cody (Rhodes) at Saturday Night’s Main Event was the right time to do it. It was cool. I waited a long time to get to do that in WWE, and the funny part is I knew Penta was coming and Penta was doing package piledriver and I was like, ‘He better not get to do it before me because I will lose my sh*t.’ But it all worked out.
Owens was scheduled to face Randy Orton at WrestleMania 41, but that match is now off the books as Owens is scheduled to undergo neck surgery. He spoke about the injury and to read more, head over to this link.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Insight with Chris Van Vliet with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
