Regarding Owens' creative direction

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

I was going to post this in the Rollins thread, but we were told to get back on topic.

One big reason Owens is kinda treading water is how he hasn't really been made to look like a major threat in a while. I felt he took too many clean pins as Universal Champ- I'm fine with WWE keeping Roman strong, but not at the expense of the belt and who's holding it. And him losing to Goldberg I was fine with, because Goldberg's an attraction for good reason.

But the McMahon headbutt- which I was uncomfortable with anyway, as I was with Shibata's- was the last time that Owens really looked like a scary character. He's best when he's funny and presented as an asskicker. The assault on Bryan after he got fired I thought was well done.

Owens has a believable, Eddie Gilbert-ish quality to him when he's given something interesting to do. As of late he's been punked out by Braun a lot, and Braun's great, but Owens needs to eventually stop jobbing.
I can't pretend to know what he's thinking but maybe if his character was protected more, he'd have more to work with.

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He has needed to turn face since yesterday.

His heel run is beyond stale at this point.

[Ben Wyatt]

Owens/Sami as a team was an nice wrinkle to the dynamic, but they've failed to really go all in on it.

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I'll say what I said in the Rollins thread:

Owens needs a face turn and he needs to go back to "family man ass-kicker Kevin Owens" again.

We always say "yeah this guy needs to turn heel" but Kevin Owens has been a heel for 3 years on the main roster at this point. He's faced everyone he needs to face sans someone like Strowman and right now he's pretty much exhausted his opponents. He doesn't need to turn only from a character perspective but he needs to turn for an opponent perspective. You can have him against so many heels that you can ride that out for years.

From a character perspective, he hasn't been great since pre-Universal Championship win. He's always been the guy to evolve his character from the quiet serious ass-kicker to the jokester heel to the cowardly heel and on and on and on but one thing he's always been able to do is wrestle with his sort of "edge" regardless of his character. He hasn't had that edge in a long time. Zayn looks to be the guy who's benefited from their current tag team while Owens looks to be someone who's just "there" and a guy who beat Cena during his first main roster match? Nah, that's not gonna cut it. He needs something.



Give us ass-kicker face family man Owens.

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

He takes that crash bump from Strowman real well, but that's the only notable thing he's done since the Bryan assault before Mania.

Dude needs to destroy someone to look like a threat again.

[Shai]

May 14, 2018 12:04:39 GMT -5 TWERKIN' MAGGLE said:

He takes that crash bump from Strowman real well, but that's the only notable thing he's done since the Bryan assault before Mania.

Dude needs to destroy someone to look like a threat again.

Please.

This.

(As long as its not Sami. I've had enough of that for the rest of my life)

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Heel Sami and face Owens would be a change.

Preferably after being kept apart for awhile.

[Pushed to the Moon]

I used to really enjoy him but that's been going downhill since that underwhelming AJ feud. If he just signed that new contract then hopefully it can kick start him again and do something refreshing. Outside of Sami's goofball dancing I never really enjoyed their schtick either. I'd rather Owens was a legit threat again on his own but at the same time Rollins is so great right now I don't want him to lose the IC title so soon tonight so I don't know what he should do after that. The sooner Brock loses that Universal title the better for everyone.

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May 14, 2018 10:44:43 GMT -5 @sigmax said:

He has needed to turn face since yesterday.

His heel run is beyond stale at this point.

I didn't want to see him as a face, but I'm starting to agree now. He's just been way too hot and cold (mostly cold) as a heel over the last couple years.