It’s been a minute since we’ve seen Kevin Owens on WWE TV. More than a minute, actually — KO’s last televised match was on Sept. 30, in a six-man tag with Bobby Lashley and Dolph Ziggler against Austin Theory, Seth Rollins and The Miz.
While everyone else involved in that bout (even Dolph!) has been on Raw or SmackDown since then, Owens has only been wrestling on house shows over the past six weeks. Unfortunately, it sounds like one of those non-televised matches may keep him from facing off against a longtime friend and countryman in a way that fans would have been dying to see.
According to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, Owens was expected to be added to the men’s WarGames match at Survivor Series WarGames. But an MCL injury, which he suffered working against Theory at a live event this past Sunday, may scuttle those plans (h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription).
I only heard he has a sprained MCL, but he was going to get it examined. … I believe he was going to be in the WarGames match. That’s not 100% confirmed, but it is certainly the talk, and he was supposed to be in something as a surprise. So it all adds up that it would be the WarGames match … If that was the case, this could cost him that.
Though not officially announced yet, all signs point to the men’s WarGames match featuring the Bloodline against a team that includes the Brawling Brutes and Drew McIntyre. Owens would have been the surprise fifth member of the latter team, which would have put him in direct conflict with Sami Zayn, now fully incorporated into the Bloodline.
There’s certainly still hope for a long-term story to unfold where Owens helps Zayn see the light with regard to the Bloodline and the duo reunite as full-fledged faces, but it appears it will have to go on without an intriguing showdown in the interim. Survivor Series WarGames, with or without KO, is set for Boston’s TD Garden on Saturday, Nov. 26.