In recent weeks, on Friday Night SmackDown, the tension between Kevin Owens and Cody Rhodes has grown so much that it led to a real physical aggression operated by the Canadian ace following Bad Blood. The issue also involved Randy Orton, who was a victim of the fury of the Prizefighter after the segment in the ring where the Legend Killer punched him to calm him, then paid with an assault behind the scenes.
The issue is quite obvious: Owens has it in for Cody’s alliance signed on the occasion of Bad Blood with Roman Reigns against the Bloodline led by Solo Sikoa. Kevin Owens makes a very specific accusation to the WWE management: censorship. Triple H announced that the matter of the assault of Owens at the American Nightmare would be handled internally, and this annoyed a lot the Canadian. That’s why KO decided to give an ultimatum.
His attempt to unravel the doubts at SmackDown was unsuccessful: before taking that famous punch from Orton he was brutally silenced with the disactivation of the microphone he held in his hands. "As much as I would like to explain myself and give my version of the story, WWE did not allow me to do so. They did the opposite, in reality: they tried to silence me. Over the weekend I sent them a video that I hoped would be aired on Raw, but they didn’t send it".
KO is threatening
This is the real complaint that the Prizefighter has entrusted to social media, tool that does not particularly like but with which WWE threatens to spread its message. To echo this aut aut was Fightful, who reiterated what said by Owens: WWE has time until Friday to transmit the video to SmackDown; if this does not happen then he will take his countermeasures and spread the video on social.
The story is becoming more and more complicated and it is difficult to understand where you want to go. Good news at least on the contractual front: according to PW Chronicle the parties are very close to signing a new agreement. After the last episode of Friday Night SmackDown, we saw a side of Kevin Owens that maybe we do not often see, but it absolutely moved us and pulled out a smile despite the situation in a sense was very serious and delicate, with a video of the event that was posted by a fan on TikTok, did not go on TV.
We’re talking about the fact that a fan who on social media is called emilinab, who participated in the show, posted a video that opens with a picture of her smiling holding a billboard with the words: "I just keep fighting cancer to see KO," ie: "I keep fighting cancer to see KO [Kevin Owens]."
Shortly after, here we see a video recorded by someone present with her at the arena where there is Kevin Owens greeting a member of the crew after the show, Before going up to the stands having seen the sign for embracing the woman who thanks him warmly for that beautiful gesture. After the video, you see a close-up photo of what appears to be one of KO’s t-shirts, with his autograph and the words: "Emily, you can do it." Needless to say how great this was from the Canadian side, and of course we wish Emily a win in this very important battle.
It’s not the first time that WWE Superstar does something similar for a fan, in fact during Elimination Chamber 2024, he did something very special for a little fan who met a few hours before the event through a meeting organized by WWE for Make-A-Wish. As explained by the comment table, in fact, this special fan asked Kevin Owens if he could do a Chokeslam during the Elimination Chamber Match, a move that is not among those typically used by the Prizefighter, which despite this, decided to make it to make the boy happy.
Update on Kevin Owens' future
In May of this year, Kevin Owens told Alistair McGeorge of Metro that he had nine months left on his WWE contract, noting that he doesn’t take anything for granted. This made the fans curious about what Kevin Owens would do in the end. " I really don’t take anything for granted, I have nine months left from my contact and I don’t know what can happen from here on out." were his words in that circumstance
In a recent conversation with Rick Ucchino of Sports Illustrated which was mentioned by Ringside News Kevin Owens confirmed that there have been no changes to his contractual status, simply he has less time. Therefore, he still has to sign an extension of his contract with WWE.