10 Quick Fixes For WWE In 2019
8. Turn Kevin Owens Face
Kevin Owens has played every possible iteration of a pro wrestling baddie. Insta-Monster; Chickensh*t Champ; Passive Aggressive Nightmare; Aggressive, Terrifying Psychopath; Besuited World Champion; Deluded Comedy Act: Owens, an incredible performer, really, is almost too good for his own good within a WWE system defined by discontinuity. He is now a man without a country, an identity.
In being everything, Owens is now nothing.
There's really only one role left for the Prizefighter to play - and since nobody else is playing it, he might even be afforded a chance to star. Kevin Owens should return as a babyface. Kevin Owens is very well-equipped to become an outstanding babyface even in a company fundamentally awful at promoting babyfaces. KO, a genuinely witty man boasting the sort of deft improvisational skills that could transcend the inevitably lame material handed to him, is a segment-carrier. Moreover, he is a cracking in-ring gladiator able to work a dangerous and unique style within WWE's safety-first norm, and, somehow, he isn't beyond repair.
His apron powerbomb spot remains one of WWE's most over weapons - and, re-contextualised as comeuppance, it may see him pop up back from the dead.