The former WWE champion was speculated to join AEW for a more lucrative deal.
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Former WWE Champion Kevin Owens recently extended his contract with the company after negotiations and agreement with chairman Vince McMahon personally. It was speculated that Owen is looking for a more lucrative contract at AEW and wants to part ways with WWE. However, Owens revealed that his personal conversation with McMahon helped him to stay focused at WWE and he wants to give at least five more years in the development of the brand through his performances.
“I dealt with Vince directly and he made it clear that he wanted me to stay and we made an agreement right then and there. I’m a big believer of my career is going to go the way it goes and I’m going to do my best,” Owens said on this week’s episode of Out of Character with Ryan Satin.
“I’m there now for a couple more years and I’m going to do my best to get opportunities to knock them out of the park As I’ve documented before, there’s ups and downs to this thing. To WWE, to wrestling, to the industry. I feel like I’m on a really great upswing right now and I’m enjoying what I do,” he added.
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The new contract has also opened up speculations on Owens’ future goal with WWE. He, however, clarified that although nothing remains certain with his performance it will be within his reach to entertain people and give them a good laugh over his extended period.
“I guess I’m a smarta**. I don’t know, I’m always trying to make people laugh. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I don’t. I’m just trying to give people a good time. I think that translates to what I do on TV a lot,” Owens added.
It should be noted that former WWE writer Vince Russo who worked closely with McMahon and has observed his growth over the years. He also knew that McMahon was not going to grab the eyeballs at WrestleMania 15 after being booked to win the Royal Rumble in 1999.
It should be noted that the champion of Royal Rumble usually challenges the World Championship at WrestleMania. But things turned out differently for McMahon as the story line needed to be different and more appealing for the audience.
“The important creative there was obviously Vince can’t wrestle Austin at WrestleMania. That’s not going to happen. So we’re going to have the shocker of Vince winning the Royal Rumble, but then, bro, you have to have really good storytelling in getting Vince out of that match before WrestleMania,” Russo told Sportskeeda Wrestling’s Dr. Chris Featherstone.
“What I loved about Vince was, whatever Ed and I wrote for him… bro, he did it,” Russo continued. “He didn’t concentrate on himself. Like when we were going over the Vince part of the show, it was just like we were going over DX [D-Generation X]. When it was Vince, it wasn’t, ‘Okay, let’s talk about Vince now for two hours.’ It was just like he was another character on the show,” he added.
