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#1. Hope isn't true: The real reason why Kevin Owens was added to the WWE title match at Day 1

The following could potentially contain spoilers for WWE Day 1. Proceed accordingly.

Kevin Owens is officially going to challenge for the WWE Championship at Day 1. Given how things stand, it could be his last shot at WWE world title glory, and one that he is unlikely to achieve.

All the talk about Kevin Owens in recent months has been about his WWE contract - one that is set to expire at the end of January 2022. Before that happens, he is set to compete in the second-most important match of the Day 1 pay-per-view on January 1st.

According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Radio, there is only one actual reason why WWE added Kevin Owens to the World title match at Day 1:

"This allows them to stretch the feud out between Big E and Seth Rollins because Kevin Owens can get pinned and they can keep the feud going. Because on that side, as long as Big E is a babyface champion, it's going to be tough to put Edge in there. Who is there other than Seth Rollins and Kevin Owens? And we don’t know how long Kevin Owens is going to be there. His contract is coming up at the end of January after the Royal Rumble, and then he’ll have a decision to make," Meltzer said.

We hope this isn't true, but it could be as WWE has the option of extending the Big E-Seth Rollins feud until the 2022 Royal Rumble. That could see the end of Kevin Owens' WWE run unless news emerges about a contract extension - one that there seems to be no sign of right now.