10 Quick Fixes For WWE’s Struggling Superstars
8. Kevin Owens - 'Relegation' To NXT
When Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn lost to Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 34, they were banished from SmackDown Live! as per a stipulation inserted to end the pair's interminable rivalry with the authority figures. It had genuine stakes too, theoretically. Owens had raised the ire of former friend Stephanie McMahon by sticking the nut on her father Vince midway through 2017, so a move to Monday Night Raw was surely out of the question for the Montreal frenemies. Where else could they go?
Well, Raw, was where.
Showing disrespect for the angle and the performers, WWE's creative braintrust just sent them to the red brand anyway, apparently as the latest punishment for Kurt Angle by his malevolent McMahon manager. That Stephanie's husband Triple H just weeks later admitted he'd be happy to let main roster guys float across to NXT on occasion must have been heartbreaking for 'KO' to hear.
Like numerous Full Sail graduates, Owens' hasn't ever harnessed his incredible aura on the main stage in quite the same manner, but a return now would surely reignite a clearly-lost passion for the art-form. Can it get worse? His recent exchanges with Braun Strowman have certainly left him looking more than a little blue.