The WWE has a new Universal Champion and his name is Kevin Owens. If that sentence doesn't make you want to cannonball with happiness then there's genuinely no hope for you.
For the more casual fans among you who may not be particularly au fait with Owens' work, let me assure you that he absolutely should be your favourite person in the world. You should love the bloke more than your parents, wife, husband, boyfriend or girlfriend and the fact that he's now a world champion is surely worthy of a national holiday being declared in his native Canada.
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Owens was part of a four way elimination match during the main event of Monday Night Raw, last night, which had been booked to determine a new Universal Champion for the Raw brand due to inaugural champion Finn Balor vacating the belt after suffering a shoulder injury at SummerSlam.
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Following KO's elimination of Big Cass, he was left with former WWE World Heavyweight Champions Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns and, heading into the finishing stretch of the match, it looked as if it would be the two former Shield members who would be left to fight it out for the vacant title until top bastard and NXT Overlord Triple H decided to crash the whole fucking show, Pedigreeing Reigns on the floor and then dishing out the same treatment to his former protege Rollins, inside the ring, to hand Owens his first World Title.
I mean, if your boss gatecrashed your world title match in a three thousand dollar suit and a pair of fucking loafers and helped you become The Man, scripted or not, wouldn't you have this exact same fucking reaction when it happened?
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Also, props to Triple H for staring down Mick Foley and then giving his own wife some serious shit eye as he made his exit through the crowd.
Needless to say, social media popped like a motherfucker at Owens' title victory...
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Congratulations, big Kev. I hope this is exactly how you celebrated...
WORDS BY @JoeBaia
Topics: Triple H, Kevin Owens, Wrestling, WWE
