What if Kevin Owens moves to SmackDown Live?

1. Sami Zayn follows

Owens and Zayn — It's hard to imagine Kevin Owens in WWE for long without Sami Zayn nearby.

One of the great inevitabilities of Kevin Owens’s WWE tenure seems to be that wherever he goes, whatever he does, Sami Zayn will be there. This dynamic started in NXT, where Owens debuted with the context of being Zayn’s best friend from the indies.

It blossomed into an NXT rivalry that spilled over onto Raw. From there, both men got drafted to SmackDown and eventually wound up as heel partners in crime. After getting their comeuppance from Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan, the two wound up on Raw together.

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Whether it’s to continue to their heel alliance, or to feud—with either one of these men turning face—the odds are if KO moves to the blue brand Sami Zayn ultimately will, too. The most interesting permutation on this scenario may well be if Zayn plays the heel to Owens as a face this time around, each seemingly out of his more natural role, but experimenting with this new twist on their long story that tends to produce excellent matches.

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Michael Chin was born and raised in Utica, New York and currently lives in Las Vegas with his wife and son. He authored the short story collections You Might Forget the Sky was Ever Blue from Duck Lake Books and Circus Folk from Hoot ‘n’ Waddle. Visit him at miketchin.com.

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