‘Fight Champ Fight’Kevin Owens hasn’t been on the main roster for a long time, neither has he been in WWE as a whole for a long time.But the 31-year-old has created quite an impact since debuting in NXT in December last year. He’s become the best NXT Champion till date and now already holds a singles championship on the main roster.He’s been gloriously squashing and trash talking his way through the main roster. He seems like the next right guy to bring back some relevancy to the title he currently holds. There are a lot of storyline opportunities that can be had with a performer of the caliber of Owens.Here are 3 ways in which Owens’ Intercontinental title reign can be built-
#3 The Prize Fighter
Kevin Owens has been in the company for less than a year and in that time span he’s made it clear that he’s a prize fighter.
This year he won the NXT Championship and had a tremendously memorable reign and now he’s the Intercontinental Champion on the main roster. He’s also, now, gone on to call the IC title the Kevin Owens Championship.
Building him like he values and respects the championship and that he’ll do anything to protect it is something that typically any champion should be made to look like but not many get it right. Owens did this in NXT and succeeded.
The same should be done for any title he wins- he guards it as much his own life and his family’s. It’s his so much so that it’s an entire part of his being. And the thing is that he defends it only on special occasions. He won’t put it on the line on just about any night.
He should make the championship look and feel like a big deal and make winning it something worth an equally big deal.
#2 Monster heel
Owens was the only one, apart from Lesnar, who for the better part of the year has been booked to perfection. His NXT run was flawless. He was the MVP of NXT and instrumental in making it a mainstream attraction.
He won the IC title with some old- school heeling with a poke to the eye and cheated his way to a victory. But when the occasion calls for it, the prizefighter should come all out looking like a fighting monster. A monster who walks away on other nights but is all geared up to fight on a big night. He’s a big money player and that should be clear.
He isn’t the Seth Rollins- kind of champion who prefers to run away from anywhere. He’ll only give his time and energy to a night so big that deserves his attention.
Other nights, his promos will do, since Owens is just so, so good on the mic.
P.S.: Also, this Sunday, Owens faces Ryback. Over the weeks Owens won plenty of shirt matches, many of them were squashes. That speaks a lot against Ryback who began his career by squashing local wrestlers for a long time. Owens could stake a claim at being better at squashing than the big guy.
#1 Meeting John Cena
Ever since Wrestlemania 31, the main discussion surrounding the secondary titles were that Bryan and Cena will bring back relevance to those. While Cena has been wildly successful in doing that, Bryan’s injury derailed the path for the IC title, it seems.
Owens and Cena have a well- preserved history. He actually beat Cena clean in his first match on a PPV. Owens needs to have a dominant IC title run, one that actually makes everyone know who the IC champion is, something that reminds everyone that this title still exists and is still relevant.
Owens is the right guy to make it relevant; someone who’s as good on the mic as he’s in the ring, someone who looks like dangerous Brickhouse. He’s naturally as compelling as compelling comes.
And then he meets Cena again, Champion Vs Champion. And even though Cena is rumored to lose the US title soon, here’s hoping he’ll win it again. Since that’s a role that everyone loves him doing.
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