Subhojeet Mukherjee on October 14, 2023
Nick Aldis parted ways with Impact Wrestling after the Slammiversary event, where he lost to Alex Shelly. He made his way to WWE and started shadowing as producer. He finally debuted as the General Manager for Smackdown this week and Aldin made it clear he wants Owens to become a singles star again.
As seen on this week’s episode of Friday Night Smackdown, Kevin Owens was traded to the blue brand after Jey Uso made his way to Monday Night RAW. Naturally, many fans were excited to see The Prizefighter back on the blue brand.
While speaking in a SmackDown Exclusive after the show, Nick Aldis talked about his mindset surrounding the trade for Kevin Owens. Aldis made it clear that he believes it is the right time for Kevin Owens to focus on being a singles star again.
“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.”
We will have to wait and see how WWE will book Kevin Owens now that he is on Friday Night Smackdown. Perhaps he will get to win a singles title again for the first time in six years.
What do you think of what Nick Aldis said? Are you glad to see Kevin Owens on Friday Night Smackdown? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
October 14, 2023 5:52 am
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