2) Has wrestled his entire career with a bad knee
Early in Owens’s career, he injured his knee in a match where his opponent screwed up a move and has had problems ever since. He’s had surgery on his knee multiple times but has never let his knee problems inhibit from his ring style as evident from his NXT debut against CJ Parker where he did a flipping dive from the ring to the outside.
Owens also parlayed his knee problems into a storyline in Ring of Honor in late 2009. Because of his well-documented chronic knee problems, he teased a promo about retiring from the wrestling business. Everybody who attended Final Battle 2009 in the Manhattan Center in New York City thought that Kevin was going to have his last match.
After losing a tag team match with El Generico against the Young Bucks, he had tears in his eyes as he said that this was probably it for him. He hugged Generico, then proceeded to kick him in the crotch, turning heel and sparking a one-year rivalry. It was Owens’s legitimate knee issues that made that segment so believable.
Teddy Long snaps when Swerve Strickland's race is brought up HERE
