10 WWE Stars We Aren't Allowed To Like

8. Kevin Owens

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Kevin Owens is a genuine Jack and master of all trades. He can fly, he can crack actually funny jokes, he can construct awesomely dramatic back-and-forth wrestling bouts and vicious hardcore wars. He is a psychopath and a chickensh*t. He does banter segments and plays brilliantly the role of a frighteningly passive aggressive coiled snake, ready to strike anybody who disagrees with what he says, only to then twist what they do agree with, like WWE's version of Tommy DeVito. He is a gimmick polymath. He is the good doppelgänger of Ed Leslie, only Ed Leslie headlined a PPV years into his mainstream career.

Do you like Kevin Owens?

Tough t*tties!

He's a genuine Jack and master of all trades, which WWE has ruthlessly exploited to characterise him as everything to an extent that has turned him into nothing. What is Kevin Owens, exactly? He is more of a plot device than a performer, like The Big Show was, and there's no integrity left to the act whatsoever, which is why WWE has written him off television.

Owens isn yet another former NXT Champion who arrived as a prospect, only to be sidelined as a joke.

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