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Sami & Kevin Forever!
In his pre-WWE career, Kevin Owens had a fierce rivalry with El Generico - a mysterious masked
luchador who was KO’s former tag team partner.
Their feud spanned years, and it was said both men were destined to fight forever.
That didn’t happen, though, because El Generico disappeared off the face of the planet around
2013.
In his place, Owens entered a blood feud with Sami Zayn upon signing with NXT.
The two have been warring in developmental and the main roster ever since, but how big
a part are both men of each other’s WWE careers?
Thanks to some excellent number crunching by Fightful writer Brandon Howard on Twitter,
about a quarter: “Of Kevin Owen's 456 WWE matches, Sami Zayn
has been in 115 (25%) of them.”
“Zayn only has 20 more WWE matches than Owens, so it's similar for him: 24% of his
WWE matches have been with Owens.”
After those exciting figures, I bet you now want to know similar stats for Dean Ambrose
and Seth Rollins, right?
No?
It doesn’t matter, because I’m going to tell you anyway.
It’s really interesting.
“Rollins has had 835 WWE matches, 359 (43%) involved Ambrose.
Ambrose has had 1475 WWE matches, 359 (25%) involved Rollins.”
And you thought WWE booked the same matches over and over again.
KO’s dependency on Zayn, though, appears set to change, as he enters a feud with Smackdown
Commissioner Shane McMahon.
Chris Jericho Shoots On Shane McMahon While promoting his new book, the From The
Top Rope podcast asked Chris Jericho if he had any advice for Kevin and his impending
match with the boss’ son - to which Y2J responded with a story from last year’s
Survivor Series...
“Shane McMahon is, how do I put this nicely, not a good wrestler…
[At Survivor Series 2016] we get in the ring together, me and Shane, and we go to lock
up and he punches me in the face.
I know Shane, he gets very hyper, and he doesn’t know how to throw a punch.
So I go to lock up, and he punches me in the face a second time.
Ok, now that’s the last one.
Hits me again, IN THE FACE, I roll to the floor, I’m pissed off…
I get back in, he punches me in the face again.
I’m like, throw me in the corner, watch the boot, watch the dropkick.
He comes to the corner, I kick him right in his face.
I jump to the second rope and - dude - I jumped up and gave him like a Jean Claude Van Dam
double kick right in his face.
Boom, he goes down.
And I’m looking at him, and you can tell he’s dazed, and he’s like ‘are you OK?’
And I’m like, “Calm the f*** down.”...so good luck Kev.”
Asuka Main Roster Plans?
WWE.com announced last week that Asuka’s is vacating her NXT title because of injury
and she’s currently considering other options in WWE.
According to Pro Wrestling Sheet’s Ryan Satin, it appears those options have a weekly
Monday night schedule.
“Now that it's official, Bobby Roode/Asuka were the major call-ups I was referring to
after TakeOver.
I've been told Asuka will be on Raw.”
This is backed up by the Dirty Sheets podcast, who add she’ll carry her undefeated run
from NXT to the main roster, and won’t lose until after she wins the Raw Women’s Championship.
Although that could change considering how much Vince McMahon loses patience with long
term plans.
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