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Welcome to the Kevin Owens Show.

Kevin Owens.

Few superstars have ever possessed the sheer ruthlessness

and determination of the Prizefighter.

It's not just in the ring that KO shines,

it's on the microphone as well.

The biggest superstar on SmackDown Live

is already here because that's me.

Yes, he's even exchanged a few pleasantries with yours truly.

You know what, Michael?

You don't have any friends.

Can I give you-

You don't have any friends.

That's why you don't understand what betrayal is.

Love him or hate him,

for over a decade, audiences worldwide have screamed

"Fight, Owens, fight."

Today, we look back at some of the best matches and memories of

the one and only Kevin Owens.

How's this for a WrestleMania moment?

This is WWE' Greatest Moments.

Acknowledge me.

My God.

Stone Cold with a beer bath.

This is surreal.

Look at this.

He slammed him.

Welcome, everyone to WWE's Greatest Moments.

I'm Michael Cole, and on this edition, we're looking back at

some of the very best of The Prizefighter himself,

Kevin Owens.

Our first moment brings us back to 2014 and the highly

anticipated debut of NXT's newest signee, Kevin Owens.

A highly anticipated debut for Kevin Owens.

I waited for that moment for so long, so long,

and I remember everything around it was so exciting.

I was welling up with tears.

I was just so proud and so happy for him.

Whoa.

My God.

He's always been charismatic.

He's always been talented.

It's not surprising when you love someone and then everyone

else appreciates it too.

You're like, "Good.

I'm glad you're seeing what I'm seeing."

I'm here.

And I'm changing everything.

Oh.

My nose got broken.

Blood was splattered all over my face.

Kevin Owens-

I think he really proved to everyone watching when he

debuted that he was here to make a statement.

Pop-up Powerbomb.

And Kevin Owens, with the victory here tonight

at his debut.

The whole night was so surreal.

And to get to go celebrate with Sami at the end.

Sami Zayn the new NXT champion.

The NXT locker room

coming out to congratulate Sami Zayn and his best friend

Kevin Owens.

He won the title and it looks like everything's,

you know, great.

We're going to walk off together.

I chose to do something that would change everything.

I drop him.

Powerbomb on the apron.

Sami's the ultimate underdog who gets his moment in the sun,

and his best friend debuts on that night,

and now his friend is out there to support him,

and then he just stabs him in the back

because "You're stealing my thunder, man."

It was the culmination of 15 years of work for me.

I really can't put into words how special that night was.

An act that certainly shocked the WWE universe, especially

when you consider the history of Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens.

These two literally grew up in this business together and were

best friends, and now the fight was on as one of the most

intense rivalries in WWE history was born.

For Sami Zayn, the one thing has been his Achilles heel-

Getting over Kevin Owens.

You know, it's hard to differentiate personal and

professional sometimes.

It's kind of all mixed together,

especially when it comes to Kevin.

And it just we somehow bring out the best in each other

to when it's real,

I think fans just feel that.

Oh my God.

Oh man.

Good grief.

What?

Look at 'em go.

We had a lot of really good matches,

but something that night just hit perfectly.

That kind of chemistry is not something

you could ever duplicate.

It's not something you can manufacture.

It feels like a really big moment.

There's no title involved.

There was nothing at stake.

Helluva Kick.

But it was another Helluva Kick.

He wanted the fatal blow.

Sami Zayn knocks off Kevin Owens.

We wanted to kill it.

We wanted to rock the house and show them what really,

what, you know,

our-our story has always been about,

and the stuff we could do together.

Somebody call the sheriff.

These boys just stole the show.

It was our friendship ending-

Who's the best?

Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn are certainly a case of keep your

friends close, but your enemies closer.

Sami Zayn is about to be a

sacrificial lamb for the Bloodline.

Kevin Owens is back.

Friendship is not an accident.

For 20 years, whether we were fighting each other or fighting

alongside each other, I've been your biggest fan.

The Usos may be blood, but our bond is thicker than blood.

All signs pointed to the main event of WrestleMania 39,

night one, with the Tag Team Championship on the line.

For a tag team match

to headline WrestleMania

was extremely significant because

before it had always been focused on individual rivalries.

KO-mania and Wrestle-Zaynia.

Sharing these experiences with people you care about are what

makes it really worth going through.

Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn

have never won tag team titles in WWE.

Kevin Owens taking The Usos out.

Any time that you have talent that are as seasoned as

The Usos, Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens,

you are going to have an instant classic.

Sami bringing the fight to Jey.

Cannonball coming.

The story and everybody's contribution

made it the undeniable main event.

Helluva Kick.

Cover.

The Bloodline be damned.

For me and Sami, there's no other tag team

we could have done that with.

It was just such a surreal experience.

Just all the stars aligned for that to be the way it was.

An incredible outpouring of emotion.

It should be to the surprise of no one.

Kevin Owens isn't afraid to speak his mind.

And in 2017, the McMahon family found that out firsthand.

Unhappy with SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon,

KO let his feelings be known.

Why do you need to do all these things to-

to-to get the spotlight?

Is it because your daddy didn't give you enough attention

when you were a kid?

There was no other option than the chairman

of the board to step in.

Last week you come out here,

you disparage McMahon name.

You make heinous, derogatory comments.

Things heat up.

We shake hands and he's pulling me in

and he's talking so much,

saying the worst things he can say.

And I'm like, "Okay.

And I just-

Oh my God.

No.

Oh my God, I headbutted that man so hard.

The boss ends up eating a headbutt from Kevin Owens

that leaves him instantly bloody.

It madefor a really wild moment.

I remember calling my wife and she was like,

"You're going to get fired."

I'm like, "No, I'm not.

This is what he wanted."

Don't you dare, Kevin.

No, Kevin, no.

Vince is being helped to the back, and he's beat up, clearly.

But everybody's fine.

Everybody's like, "That was great."

You know?

"What are you gonna-

He wanted you to headbutt him.

What do you think's gonna happen?"

Come on, Dad.

So violent in so many ways.

It was a very elevating moment for Kevin Owens only.

Come on Dad.

Kevin Owens, I'm going to beat you beyond recognition

where I can extract my revenge after the hell you put

me and my family through.

So come on down here.

The animosity between KO and the McMahons had literally

reached a boiling point.

Owens with the Pop-Up Powerbomb.

The stage was set for a WWE first a "Falls Count Anywhere"

match inside the demonic structure

known as Hell in a Cell.

Five tons of steel lowers to the floor.

It is 20ft from the floor to the roof of this cell.

Don't forget this match is now

Falls Count Anywhere.

The kid who watched WWE his whole life-

Shane was one of my favorite performers.

We were in Hell in a Cell,

how then do you create this atmosphere and the excitement

where everyone is just,

"Oh,"

and they want to see more.

Man, I get goosebumps thinking about it.

What is Kevin thinking right now?

Oh no no.

Kevin Owens is climbing the Hell in a Cell.

And I realize as I'm up there, I'm looking at the crowd

and I'm like, "Holy [bleep], this is really high."

Kevin Owens can't will himself to do it.

Oh, no.

Where the hell is Shane McMahon going?

Oh, and here we go

on top of the cell.

One of the moments I'll remember the most

about the match-

Shane's not letting him go.

Oh my God.

-that really hurt a lot actually

Actually, I remember that.

It was a really hard fall.

Shane McMahon is once again going to the top

of the Hell in a Cell.

Shane, oh my God.

We both ended up walking out.

I mean, he barely made it out, but um,

fans were excited in Detroit.

I don't even know if Kevin Owens is aware

of what the hell just happened.

Okay, here we go.

You're in the big time now, man.

As we see with Kevin Owens, friendship can be fleeting,

especially when there's championship gold at stake.

After Bad Blood 2024,

an altercation between KO and undisputed WWE Champion

Cody Rhodes took place in the parking lot.

Kevin, no.

You crossed the line.

And this lesson-

I'm gonna beat it into you.

The two former friends were set to wage war on a night WWE

went retro at the resurgence of Saturday Night's Main Event.

Cody Rhodes versus Kevin Owens

for the undisputed WWE title.

When I started watching WWE, that's the title that everybody

had that I wanted.

I'm like, "Well, I'm winning the title,"

you know what I mean?

In a match like we're having, a lot of fans will look at it

and say, like,"Here's our two workhorse guys.

They're out there going and doing it."

Cross Rhodes.

Oh, and Owens sends Rhodes inadvertently into our official

Cross Rhodes onto the chair.

Cody gets rid of the evidence, hook of the leg.

Referee Charles Robinson back up and Rhodes retains the title.

Kevin Owens is going to be frustrated guys.

But that's not the end.

The show goes off the air.

Long Island.

Kevin Owens drops him with a package piledriver-

a move that had been banned in the WWE for years.

Very surreal moment because at that time

it's just a wrestling move,

but it's the wrestling move that I invented when I was a kid.

And here I am doing it in WWE on a main event star.

It looked like he broke his neck.

People were pissed.

The next thing I know, the title gets flung from my hands

and I don't know what happened.

I look up and I see it's Triple H-

very raw and real.

In 2016, Kevin Owens struck up an unlikely friendship

with Chris Jericho.

The duo were as dominant in the ring as they were entertaining.

You're the best friend ever, Kevin.

I love you.

I love you too, man.

But as we've seen throughout the program,

Kevin Owens is a hard man to read.

Unfortunately, Chris Jericho didn't do his homework.

May I present to you the very extravagant

Festival of Friendship.

When you think of all of the

best friends hroughout history

all of them pale in comparison

to Jericho and Owens.

Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens were

going to have a party to celebrate their friendship.

Owens and Jericho are in.

Let the fun begin.

There's a lot of gifts to give

to you, my friend, to prove how much you mean to me.

And then you know the gifts with the weird statue and the-

And the painting and-

Oh my God.

Everyone knew something bad's gonna happen.

I got you something, too, but it's really not much.

Especially not compared to this, but-

If anyone would slight Chris Jericho in any way,

they'd have a physical list and he'd write

your name down on that list.

All of a sudden, he gets the list of KO.

How come my name's on this?

Oh my God.

Kevin Owens is beating the hell out of Jericho.

What is going on?

Oh.

Takes talent to do something good,

but it takes something extraordinary

to do something memorable.

And this will go down as extremely memorable.

Oh, no.

No, no.

Just two months after Kevin Owens made his impactful NXT

debut, he did the unthinkable and won the NXT Championship.

When John Cena, held the United States open challenge,

The Prizefighter looked to make even more history.

You want some?

Come get some.

Somebody got the chance of a lifetime.

Oh my goodness.

Ladies and gentlemen, that is the NXT Champion Kevin Owens.

My wife knew I was about to come out, so she filmed my son.

Going against John Cena?

What?

Hello, John.

This beginning of a new chapter in my career is something

I had waited my whole career-

My whole life pretty much.

When it comes to your little US open challenge.

My answer is, uh, no.

He has a personality that demands attention, and

I'm always a exciting figure to come out and brush up against.

And if you think that you have me all figured out,

you're going to realize.

Oh, Owens with a cheap shot.

And look at this.

The Pop-Up Powerbomb.

In your face statement from Kevin Owens.

It wasn't just I'm starting on my first night with John Cena.

I'm laying him out.

I'm stepping on the US title.

I'm leaving that night as the guy who dropped John Cena.

Kevin Owens wants to make a name for himself,

and Kevin Owens just did.

In 2016, the biggest opportunity of Kevin Owens

career came when a fatal four way match was set for the WWE

Universal Championship.

Fatal four way

to determine the new champion.

Kevin is such a talented guy that just felt like he just

needed the opportunity put in front of him.

There was build to it, so you can kind of feel it coming,

but at the end of the match where Triple H comes out and

then realize, oh, "He's helping me win, I'm the new guy."

What the, wait, wait, wait a minute.

Kevin Owens the cover.

Kevin Owens is the Universal Champion.

Kevin Owens is champion.

Pretty great moment to share with Hunter because

he's the reason I got there.

And then he's the one literally handing me the title on Raw.

What did we just witness?

If you look back at the footage,

I look really blown away.

From the time I was 11 years old,

I pictured that moment thousands of times.

This may be the most shocking moment

in Monday Night Raw history.

It's special as a performer for the career that I've had and

getting to experience these things, but it wouldn't be

nearly as special if I didn't get to share them with all these

people I care so much about.

Watching him win the title, I couldn't believe what I was

watching, and it was only once he walked through the curtain

that it just it punched me and it just completely lost it.

That was really special.

It was really the culmination of that journey, man.

It was crazy.

It really doesn't get much better than that as far as my

career is concerned.

I really it's really hard to put into words.

We have now reached the number one moment, and it's a moment

that Kevin Owens himself willed into reality.

Growing up, Owens idolized WWE Hall of Famer

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin, and dreamt of one day

sharing the ring with his hero.

Got to my phone and saw this text right here.

Today at 10:03 p.m.

"Great job. I love that match."

Steve Austin.

With the Texas Rattlesnake long retired,

KO coerced Austin back into the ring by calling him out.

I know you're watching,

and I don't think you have the guts to show up

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin.

Austin accepted the challenge.

You are fixing to get your ass kicked

by "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.

He'll go face to face with Kevin Owens in a match that

truly defines dreams coming true.

You're about to see "Stone Cold" Steve Austin

against Kevin Owens.

When the bell rings and we start trading punches-

Austin and Owens teeing off at WrestleMania.

-it still didn't feel real.

Look at the fire in the eyes of Steve Austin.

And we're just kind of like kindred spirits, if you will,

as far as the love and passion for the business he was all in.

Oh, no, no.

Oh, yes.

Oh, Kevin Owens laid out on our commentary table.

The only time in my life I was jealous of Kevin Owens

was wrestling Stone Cold at WrestleMania.

Owens is gonna do it.

I don't know of another industry where there are more

stories of people getting to wrestle

and go up against their heroes.

Stunner.

Stunner.

One.

Two.

Three.

It was everything and more

than I could have expected.

And he's had one of the greatest careers ever.

I was just such a huge Stone Cold fan.

And then somehow, all those years later,

I end up main eventing WrestleMania with him,

it's, uh, just so wild.

There's no doubt that the career of Kevin Owens has been

filled with jaw dropping excitement.

And there's still-

Hey, Cole.

Michael, stop.

Stop.

You know I have a problem with you, by the way.

The moment we just talked about the match with Stone cold,

you weren't even on commentary for it.

What were you too good to do commentary on

me and Stone Cold?

I would have-

This is one of the rare times I would have loved to have your

voice attached to something I do, but no Michael Cole what

were you doing partying with McAfee?

Disgusting.

So you don't get to end this.

This is my show, the Kevin Owens Show.

Kevin Owens Greatest Moments.

Not Michael Cole's Greatest Moments.

If it was Michael Cole's Greatest Moments,

the only moment would be when you

showed up with those frosted tips all those years ago

and looked ridiculous.

Get out of my show.

Everybody, you've seen the greatest moments

of Kevin Owens up to now.

There's more coming.

We'll have another one of these eventually.

You'll see.

Thanks for watching.