10 Times WWE Salvaged A Doomed Superstar

Somewhere between his lukewarm Universal title run in 2016 and his poorly received feud with Braun Strowman in 2018, Kevin Owens stopped feeling like the unorthodox main event talent that he'd threatened to be upon his arrival onto the main roster.

Instead, Vince McMahon opted to throw KO around in a toilet cubicle and use him as cannon fodder for Goldberg's push.

This eventually led to Owens feeling like a limp afterthought, right around the time he was shelved due to substantial injuries to both of his knees.

Yet these injuries acted as a blessing in disguise, as Owens returned to the company in 2019 with a spring in his step.

After a weird initial period of him flirting between face and heel, he finally found his calling as the anti-establishment voice of the fans and was given a platform to let rip on the company's insistent pushing of the likes of Shane McMahon instead of the rich catalogue of talented performers nudged to the sidelines.

It worked a treat, with Owens now feeling like a fresh commodity in the company again and if his current feud with Seth Rollins further cements him as the straight talking anti-hero that fans are clearly responding to, Owens could be set for another world title run sooner rather than later.