10 Long-Term WWE Pay Offs You Should Be Excited For
8. Kevin Owens Just Shows Up
It was wrestling twitter supremo @MithGifs that brought into view an extremely unique relationship between the dovetailing careers of Seth Rollins and Kevin Owens when 'The Beastslayer' laid into 'KO' in his post-Survivor Series b*llocking of the Raw roster.
The story told through a series of gifs and moments between the pair was one that informs a deep-rooted jealousy within Rollins for the supposed easy ride he perceives Owens to have had during his time in WWE. This is particularly potent as an angle considering how much we know about Owens' wretched experiences at times. He is not man gifted opportunity after opportunity from his boss, but the narrative that multi-time champion of everything Rollins earnestly believes this creates quite the layered plot for an enormous payoff.
"You just show up, you lazy piece of crap" was one of the critiques Seth spat at the 'Prizefighter' before getting levelled with a Stunner, but the dig went deeper than the pair's pay-per-view loss 24 hours earlier. He'd told Owens to get into better shape to get signed by WWE, but Owens made it anyway. Upon finding out about Owens' debut against Cena, then-WWE Champion Rollins made a telling and pointed scene of it backstage. A year later, Triple H would literally hand the Universal Championship to Owens and Rollins' expense. There's a picture of them from 2015 holding titles in the Performance Center blissfully unaware of how their careers were about to switch places. And on and on it goes.
Owens get handed precisely nothing, but as the genesis for a long-awaited programme against his former friend, he's been given the world.