Kevin Owens Considers The Young Bucks & Cody Rhodes As His Brothers

Kevin Owens remains one of the higlights of WWE television ever since his debut in NXT back in 2014. He also made a name for himself in the independent circuit before making his way to WWE. Owens also revealed how integral he was to Cody Rhodes meeting The Young Bucks.

After a lot of speculation about whether Kevin Owens would stay with WWE or not, it was revealed that Owens signed another contract with WWE. The deal was said to be a multi-year deal.

While speaking on WWE After the Bell with Corey Graves, Kevin Owens talked about how instrumental he was in connecting Cody Rhodes with The Young Bucks and ultimately, AEW.

“I’ve told him this before but I’m so proud of Cody. When he was here, he and I got close pretty quickly and then he left and that really sucked for me because I felt like I was really losing [a friend]. I have people in this business that are really more like brothers to me than friends, it’s not everybody but there are a few people out there that I consider more like family. Cody is one of them, so when he left, it was a blow to me.

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Cause I figured, look, we’re going to be so busy, we’re barely going to see each other, which is true, we saw each other once, maybe twice the whole time he was gone. When he was going out on his own, he was doing it because he felt this was best for him. He didn’t feel like he was being given the chance to be what he could be in WWE, so he decided to bet on himself and leave.

And the only thing I did, he asked me for some sort of guidance because he had never been on the independent scene before, and I gave him The Young Bucks’ numbers and I told them ‘can you guys take care of this guy?’ And look what happened. They really changed the industry, they did, there’s no denying it. Cody went out and did that, he didn’t do it himself, he had a lot of help and a lot of people but he was an integral part of that.

Then he came back here, which I don’t know about as much, but I think that was always his ultimate goal. As he was doing it, as things were progressing, his mindset might have changed at some point and seen himself coming back at some point because he was doing so well.”

Cody Rhodes has already become one of the highlights of Monday Night RAW as well. We’ll have to wait and see how successful Rhodes will end up becoming in the coming weeks.

h/t to Wrestling Inc for the quotes

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