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Vince McMahon Didn’t Like Kevin Owens’ WrestleMania 33 Match With Chris Jericho

November 20, 2017 | Posted by Larry Csonka
Kevin Owens WWE Smackdown Survivor Series Image Credit: WWE

– During last night’s WWE 365: Kevin Owens special, it was revealed that Vince McMahon didn’t like Kevin Owens’ match with Chris Jericho at WrestleMania 33. Owens had dreamed of a big singles match at WrestleMania, and spoke about getting to work with Jericho at the event…

“Nine years ago for WrestleMania 24, I was sitting in the crowd way up there in the bleachers. So to come back nine years later to be a focal point of WrestleMania with Chris Jericho, who we actually saw perform at WrestleMania 24… to get to work with Chris the last six months, and now to get in the ring with him at WrestleMania is quite surreal.”

After the match, Owens was backstage, winding down from the match and he doesn’t want to talk to anyone. He says he was upset and disappointed in the match. He goes to talk to Vince and asks “are we good,” and Vince shoots back “No.” Vince was not happy with the match at all as it wasn’t what he was looking for from the two of them. It was the first time he ever got back to Vince being unhappy with one of his matches. He took that as a failure and says it wasn’t a good feeling at all.

Owens calls the match with AJ at SummerSlam a high caliber match and he has to do everything he can to make it memorable. He has a feeling though that it will be pretty easy to make it memorable. Highlights from the match and the ending with Shane waving off KO’s win due to AJ getting his bottom foot on the rope. AJ ends up winning with The Styles Clash and the controversy with Shane kicked off the next angle for KO. This time Vince tells him backstage the match was exactly what they were looking for and tells him to go take care of his arm. Kevin says that he isn’t happy and he isn’t unhappy. He gets his forearm wrapped up and says he doesn’t know how to feel. He talks about Vince hating his Mania match and he expected the same tonight, but Vince tells him he delivered. That should be good enough for him, but he doesn’t know if it is. He just seems confused and even says as much.

“I get in my own head. I don’t know that I delivered the way I should have. Vince says I did, so that should be good enough for me, right? But it’s not, I don’t know. Maybe that’s what we should call this 365: Kevin Owens 365: I Don’t Know.”

30 minutes later KO comes back and shows a text he got from Steve Austin saying that he loved the match. He then says that he is fine and seems in better spirits. He talks about how hard it is to live with things when you are never satisfied, but he has gotten better at taking a step back and looking at things. He talks about the highs of winning the Universal Title and 8 months later hitting the lows of Mania. He talks about the pressure he puts on himself and he doesn’t know what the future holds, but he will make sure he is relevant.