{"id":130298,"date":"2021-12-22T09:32:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T15:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/recovery\/?p=130298"},"modified":"2021-12-22T09:32:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T15:32:48","slug":"kevin-owens-comments-on-nxt-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/12\/22\/kevin-owens-comments-on-nxt-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Owens comments on NXT 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-651839496\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Kevin Owens, now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/12\/15\/kevin-owens-reportedly-re-signs-with-wwe\/\">re-signed with the WWE<\/a>, commented on NXT 2.0 in an interview with Pat Laprade and Kevin Raphael on les Anti-Pods de la Lutte, TVA Sports\u2019 wrestling podcast. Owens said NXT isn&#8217;t the same company that he was a part of when he first joined in 2014 and that he wouldn&#8217;t be all that receptive to returning to those roots if asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today\u2019s NXT is very different than the NXT I was part of, to the point I believe it should have a totally different name,&#8221; Owens said of NXT 2.0. &#8220;And I don\u2019t think it\u2019s better or worse, but it\u2019s just too different. So when I\u2019m watching NXT, I don\u2019t see the NXT I was part of. It\u2019s not the same thing. It\u2019s a little bit like Ring of Honor. The ROH of old days and the ROH now, it\u2019s just not the same thing. So to me, it\u2019s completely two different products, so when I\u2019m watching it, I put myself in the mindset we had when I was at NXT and the mindset there seems to have right now, it\u2019s completely different. It\u2019s very hard for me to compare them. I don\u2019t even consider that to be the same show. I don\u2019t really feel any attachment to NXT now. Listen, there are very talented people working there, and I have watched the last TakeOver show they did and there were parts of it that I thought was really good, but it\u2019s like a few years ago, if they had asked me to go back to NXT, I would have said yes. But f they would ask me that now, I don\u2019t think I would be as receptive to go back, because it\u2019s not the same thing. I don\u2019t think I fit in the new NXT as I was fitting in the NXT I was part of, with guys like Sami, Finn, Samoa Joe and Nakamura. When I watch NXT now, I don\u2019t feel the same thing I felt when I was watching NXT two years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Owens is a former NXT Champion and defeated Sami Zayn to win the title in February of 2015.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/12\/16\/kevin-owens-comments-on-new-wwe-contract\/\">Kevin Owens comments on new WWE contract<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3024077715\"><div id=\"pwtor-3103299544\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Kevin Owens, now re-signed with the WWE, commented on NXT 2.0 in an interview with Pat Laprade and Kevin Raphael on les Anti-Pods de la Lutte, TVA Sports\u2019 wrestling podcast. 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