Kevin Owens has a lot of nice things to say about Dolph Ziggler.
When Kevin Owens joined the WWE, many fans saw it as a step down for KO. Since his debut however, WWE have consistently booked him in programs at the top of the card. He is a former Universal Champion and faced Stone Cold Steve Austin at Wrestlemania 38. While speaking on WWE After The Bell with Corey Graves, Owens spoke about who he didn’t want to be like in WWE:
“He’s a guy I respect a ton, and I don’t think I’ve ever told him this but he’s one of the guys that I would look at and be like, ‘I don’t want to be like Dolph. In the sense that he’s so good and I would see him so frustrated because he’s so good and he feels like he should be doing more, and he was right. I remember thinking, man, I don’t want to be like that. This was when I was first [in WWE] in 2014-15, I was like, I don’t want to be like that, I want to come to work and I don’t want to be frustrated all the time.”
Kevin Owens on After The Bell
Owens would continue, commenting on how important passion is in professional wrestling.
“But guess what, when you’re passionate and hungry and know you’re good, which is what he is, it’s inevitable. It’s going to happen to everybody. If you don’t go through that at one point, I’m not going to say you’re in the wrong business because that’s cliche and I don’t believe that, maybe you just have a different perspective, but the hunger to do more and to be able to contribute to the show as much as you think you should or could, that’s normal.“
Kevin Owens on After The Bell
The former Universal champion continued and brought the conversation back around to Ziggler:
“But it’s important to eventually find that perspective to enjoy it because that’s my thing. I was like, man, Dolph never really seems to enjoy himself. And then that shifted, I’ve seen him now completely differently.”
“When he went to do that NXT stuff, I remember I watched the first night that he cut that promo in NXT and I texted him. He and I don’t really text, we’re not friends that way. But I texted him to say that promo was unbelievable. It was a Dolph that I hadn’t seen in years. He was like, ‘yeah, it was really refreshing,’ he said the same but even before that, his whole attitude and energy shifted. He seems to be enjoying himself at work a ton more.”
Kevin Owens on After The Bell
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