Kevin Owens Entering ‘New Season Of His Career’ Says WWE SmackDown GM Nick Aldis

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According to Nick Aldis, it makes sense for Kevin Owens to be the WWE star drafted to SmackDown for the show’s season premiere.

WWE SmackDown’s newest General Manager Nick Aldis has commented on brokering the deal in order to get Kevin Owens drafted from Raw to SmackDown.

Mentioning that the season premiere of SmackDown was a perfect time to bring in Owens, Aldis said:

“My first order of business was to select and to negotiate for a trade in kind. Now, Jey Uso is a top-tier talent, so that kind of narrows the field as to who would be eligible.

“For me, as a GM, the most important responsibility I have is to the SmackDown audience. I knew that SmackDown fans would only tolerate a very small number of talent to be eligible to replace a talent of Jey Uso’s caliber.

“So when I got to thinking about it, there’s a lot of different moving parts, a lot of nuances. I won’t bore you with all those right now.

“But I felt like Kevin Owens met the criteria for a number of reasons, one obviously being that he is a very top-tier talent.

“But also, we’re in a new season, and I feel like Kevin is entering a new season of his career, meaning that he has just come off a incredible run with Sami as the tag team champions.

“So I feel like the time is right for him to look at singles completion again. With that in mind, I felt like all of those different parts were in the right place, so I made a call to Kevin.

“We discussed things. I talked to Adam, I talked to Triple H. We made some negotiations, and we got the deal done.”

In a separate backstage exclusive, Kevin Owens spoke about being separated from Sami Zayn; you can click here to read more about that. 

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