10 WWE Booking Steps To Make Kevin Owens The Top Guy
5. Turn Him Babyface
A strange choice for sure. After all, the introduction to this column made reference to the fact that Triple H sees Owens as the WWE's next top heel, so what would turning him babyface accomplish in that sense? Owens already has several built-in characteristics that would make a babyface run extremely viable. The 'Fight Owens Fight' mantra doesn't give the impression of a cowardly heel at all. Actually, it paints a picture of the opposite. While Roman Reigns cried wolf and sat out nearly half of the Rumble match (harsh?), Owens dragged his battered body out to the ring for another round just a couple of hours after a huge brawl with Dean Ambrose that ended with him getting put through two tables. And he still came back for another fight. He already gets cheered by many sections of the audience, so it shouldn't be hard to win over a few more fans should they choose to go through with such a process. In fact, such was the buzz surrounding his arrival that Owens actually wrestled his debut NXT match as a babyface, playing to the crowd nicely as he disposed of the heel CJ Parker. The main key to these respective booking steps is to help Owens progress up the card, period. Whether he's face, heel, tweener...really, in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter. In the same way that the KO character will do whatever it takes to climb the ranks, Kevin Steen the man probably doesn't care which side of the good/evil divide he sits on so long as it helps him grab the brass ring. And there's no reason he couldn't then turn heel again if he gets to the top of the card as a babyface. If anything, it'll give him more ammunition for cutting some badass heel promos. I used you all to get to the top! I never liked you! You people suck!...Ok, so he'll be able to provide more creative material than that, but you get the gist.