{"id":20603,"date":"2016-05-25T03:35:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T08:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=20603"},"modified":"2016-05-25T03:55:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T08:55:45","slug":"future-mr-mitb-kevin-owens-involved-bizarre-restaurant-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/05\/25\/future-mr-mitb-kevin-owens-involved-bizarre-restaurant-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Future Mr. MITB&#8221; Kevin Owens involved in bizarre restaurant battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-4203998951\" 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>WWE star Kevin Owens got mixed up in a bizarre restaurant battle last week that has spilled over to this week.<\/p>\n<p>Owens felt he was treated unfairly by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notreboeufdegrace.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal restaurant<\/a>, prompting him to leave the restaurant with his wife and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FightOwensFight\" target=\"_blank\">complain about the service on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Owens&#8217;s complaints led to negative reviews for the restaurant, which is owned by a friend of MMA reporter Ariel Helwani.<\/p>\n<p>Helwani talked in detail\u00a0about the incident in <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ac7Xw8imN4E?t=4h6m27s\" target=\"_blank\">this week&#8217;s &#8220;MMA Hour&#8221; podcast<\/a>, where he framed Owens as over-reacting, misstating the amount of time he spent waiting for food, and hurting his friend&#8217;s business by driving people to post negative reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Helwani also relayed a voice-mail message from Owens to his restaurant-owner friend where Owens called from a WWE house show over the weekend asking if he was going to apologize. Helwani noted that his friend is not a wrestling fan and did not know if he was being serious or in-character.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitlonger.com\/show\/n_1sondgn\" target=\"_blank\">Owens responded with a detailed blog<\/a> providing his account of events and what lit his fuse that made\u00a0him the most upset.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was there for at least 45 mins. Not 24. Your buddy is straight up lying if he is indeed saying that. I also never said I was there with my whole family. It was just me and my wife and I never claimed otherwise,&#8221; Owens posted in response to Helwani.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was ready to love your buddy&#8217;s restaurant. I live 2 mins from there. <strong>I get less than 2 days at home every week. Taking my wife out to dinner is a big deal to me.<\/strong> We were excited to be there and try it. If we had liked it, we&#8217;d probably have gone there weekly. But your buddy&#8217;s staff handled the whole thing poorly and I took to Twitter to let people know about it, just like I would have done to praise the place if I had liked it.&#8221;<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-385470903\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Former WWE star C.M. 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