Kevin Owens fala das estrelas com quer lutar e do que aprendeu com Triple H
A estrela do NXT Kevin Owens deu uma entrevista ao Journey of a Frontman. Eis os highlights:
Alex Obert: With a whole new roster of opponents, who do you have your eye on that you haven’t worked with in the past?
Kevin Owens: I feel like CJ Parker and I could do a lot of good things together if we get to wrestle each other again. As far as just NXT is concerned, I’ve never been in the ring with Finn Balor at all. We did team with each other in England back in June before we both came here, but it was very short and it wasn’t really anything too memorable. But I feel like we have very good things in our future together. Same thing with Hideo Itami, we teamed before a long time ago, but it’s nothing like it would be now, whether it’s us teaming or competing against each other. I really didn’t know anything about Baron Corbin before I got here because he wasn’t an independent wrestler, he came through in a different way. But I’ve seen him do some really good things here and I think me and him would be interesting. There’s a guy called Tye Dillinger who has been here for a while and he’s been on TV a couple times, I still think he’s poised for big things too. I’d like to get to wrestle him. There so many answers to that question. Everybody here is so passionate and so good in different ways. Wesley Blake and Chad Gable, just to name a few. Everybody here is just working towards the same goal. Everybody here wants to be the best and go as far as they can. It will be easy to have good times and good matches with everyone. I’m really looking forward to working with everybody.
Alex Obert: What do you take out of being at Full Sail with the intimate setting and the crowd there?
Kevin Owens: It’s great, but it doesn’t feel like that intimate when you’re out there. I’ve never been in an environment like that with the titantron and the ramp and the lights and all the equipment. When I was walking out there, there might have been seven hundred people in the place, but to me, it might as well have been seventeen thousand. It felt to me like I was in any arena anywhere that the WWE puts on a show. It’s great to be surrounded by that and the fans are so into it. It honestly reminded me of Reseda, California where PWG runs their shows. I was in PWG for a long time and it has a very special place in my heart. I would definitely put it on the same level as far as how eager the fans are to have a good time. They are there for every step of the way and they appreciate everything that they are given. And that’s really cool, as a performer.
Alex Obert: Aside from in-ring action, what is it like to be working on your promos down at NXT?
Kevin Owens: It’s really fascinating. When we filmed the vignettes, it was very intricate. It’s a lot more intricate than you think. The vignettes are thirty seconds to a minute.. I think it took three to four hours to shoot all the stuff. We had to reshoot some stuff because we needed a shot of this shadow and this and that. There’s so many creative minds working together to make this special. I was really lucky, I can’t overstate that enough. Chris Chambers, Christopher Watts, Brian Kunsman, Ryan Katz and Bill DeMott, they were all helping me and gave great suggestions like “Do this. Do that. Turn your head this way.” It’s all intricate stuff it’s stuff that I’ve never done. Ring of Honor had TV, but nothing like this. It was never that intricate and never on a level like this. I’ve never done this stuff, so I’m really fortunate to have that many people who are that creative and know exactly what they are doing behind me for that. I enjoyed every aspect of it. It seems like it would be tedious, but it’s exactly what I’ve always wanted to do. I really enjoyed it.
Alex Obert: What have you taken out of spending time with Triple H behind the scenes and getting to pick his brain?
Kevin Owens: All I can say is that Triple H is literally the most dedicated man in sports entertainment, nobody works as hard as he does. I only see glimpses of it when he’s at the NXT tapings and the specials, but he’s always available for ideas. We were talking about what I was gonna do and how I was gonna be presented, he was very hands-on. It’s not just me, he’s got his finger on the pulse of everything we do here. And we do a lot of stuff, there’s seventy people here and he keeps track of everyone. I don’t know when he sleeps, I don’t know when he works out, but he’s alive and he’s in great shape. From what I can tell, he’s a machine. His dedication is really something to behold. I’m lucky to have somebody like him willing to work with me, just like everybody else I mentioned earlier. He’s another great mind who knows so much more more about this than I do and he’s willing to share it with me and share it with anybody who wants the knowledge. It’s pretty awesome. You mentioned presentation skills or promo class or whatever you wanna call it with Dusty Rhodes, that’s probably my favorite thing about the WWE Performance Center. Once a week, I get to sit in with Dusty Rhodes. He’s hilarious and intelligent and he cares about everybody here. That’s just really nice to see because he doesn’t have to care about everyone here. He could just care about the top few guys that are clearly featured, but he doesn’t, he cares about everybody from Sami Zayn, who has been here forever, to Noah, who just started a couple months ago and is working to find himself and his voice. Dusty spends as much time with them as he does with us and that’s really incredible. The Performance Center is a pretty incredible place to be.
