Kevin Steen, popularly known by his in-ring name Kevin Owens, is a Canadian professional wrestler, working in WWE for the Smackdown brand. Kevin Owens developed his interest in wrestling at the young age of 14 when he began his wrestling training with Serge Jodoin, a wrestler based in Quebec.
Owens became a part of several wrestling units that includes International Wrestling Syndicate, Combat Zone Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Guerilla, Ring of Honor, and most importantly among all is WWE, where he received recognition in his wrestling career.
Steen held several championships in his wrestling career including ROH World Championship and ROH World Tag Team Championship, PWG World Championship and PWG World Tag Team Championship, AAW Heavyweight Championship, NXT Championship, WWE Universal Championship, United States Championship, and Intercontinental Championship.
Kevin Owens is now being called as second to Stone Cold Steve Austin in the World Wrestling Entertainment platform.
Kevin Owens Early Life
Kevin Steen was born in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, on May 7, 1984. Steen has always wanted to be a professional wrestler, so he started training when he was only 14. Steen likes sports, so he played ice hockey, soccer, and baseball. His dream, though, was to become a professional wrestler. When he watched WWE Monday Night Raw, he would copy everything he saw or heard.
Owens started wrestling training at age 14 with a wrestler from Quebec named Serge Jodoin. Jacques Rougeau and Terry Taylor also taught him how to play.
Kevin Owens Net Worth
Kevin Owens has a net worth of about $3 million, but he is not your average wrestler. He makes about $ 950,000 or more a year. Kevin has held the titles of WWE Universal Champion, WWE United States Champion, and WWE Intercontinental Champion more than once. He has wrestled for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla and Ring of Honor, where he was the ROH World Champion.
Kevin Owens Personal Life
Kevin Owens lives in Orlando, Florida, with his wife, Karina, and their two children, a son named Owen and a daughter named Élodie. Owen is his son’s name, which comes from the wrestler Owen Hart. In 2007, they got married. Terry Steen is his father, and Suzanne Steen is his mother. They even have tattoos that match their bodies. She has “Beauty” written on her arm, while Kevin has “Beast” written on the same part of his arm.
Kevin Owens Professional Life
Kevin Owens began his career on his birthday, May 7, by training with Jacques Rougeau and Terry Taylor. After four years of wrestling, he worked for many Canadian promotions. He then started wrestling for the International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS) and beat El Generico to win the IWS World Heavyweight Championship (Sami Zayn). In 2008, Owens beat Max Boyer to become the IWS Canadian Champion. This made him the first wrestler to ever hold two IWS titles at the same time.
Kevin Owens joined several other wrestling groups, such as Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), where he won the CZW Iron Man Championship, Pro-Wrestling Guerilla (PWG), where he won the PWG Championship, and the PWG World Tag Team Championship with El Generico, and the WWE, where he won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
Owens joined Ring of Honor in 2007, where he and Generico won the ROH World Tag Team Championship. In 2010, on PWG’s eighth-anniversary show, he returned to the company and beat Claudio Castagnoli to win his second PWG World Championship title.
Owens beat El Generico and Eddie Edwards to win his third PWG World Championship title in 2012. Owens made wrestling history when he beat Davey Richards at Border Wars to become the first Canadian wrestler to win the ROH World Championship title.
WWE hired him for NXT because of how well he did in professional wrestling. At NXT TakeOver: Rival, he beat Sami Zayn to become the new NXT Champion, but he later lost the title to Balor.
Owens joined WWE Raw in 2015, and after beating Ryback at Night of Champions, he quickly won the Intercontinental title. In the end, he lost the title of Ryder in a seven-way ladder match at Wrestlemania 32.
Owen’s career took a big step forward in 2016, when he became WWE Universal Champion for the first time. This happened after Triple H got in the way of his match with Big Cass, Roman Reigns, and Seth Rollins for the title. Owens lost the title to Goldberg in 22 seconds at Fastlane because Jericho was too busy to pay attention to Owens.
Owens and Jericho’s fight for the US Championship was the main event at WrestleMania 33. Owens beat Jericho at “The Grandest Stage of Them All” to win the US Championship. Owens lost the title to Jericho at Payback, but he got it back at Smackdown. Styles beat him for the title just two days after he won it at Battleground.
Owens has had fights with many WWE superstars, including John Cena, Roman Reigns, Chris Jericho, AJ Styles, Shane Mc Mahon, Braun Strowman, and many others.
Owens had a fight with WWE Champion Kofi Kingston for the title in 2019, but Owens did not win the title at the Money in the Bank event. Owens and Ziggler got into a fight after they missed their chance to win the Smackdown tag team championship because they didn’t talk to each other well enough. Owens challenged Ziggler at Extreme Rules, and Ziggler was shocked when Owens won in just 17 seconds.
Kevin Owens Achievements
- Owens is a one-time WWE Universal Champion
- Owens is a one-time NXT Champion
- Owens is a two-time Intercontinental Champion
- Owens is a three-time United States Champion
- Owens is a one-time AAW Heavyweight Champion
- Owens is a one-time CZW Iron Man Champion
- Owens is a one-time IWS Canadian Champion
- Owens is a three-time IWS World Heavyweight Champion
- Owens is a three-time PWG World Champion
- Owens is a three-time PWG Tag Team Champion with El Generico (2) and Super Dragon (1)
- Owens is a one-time ROH Champion
- Owens is a one-time ROH Tag Team Champion with El Generico
- Owens won ROH World Championship No. 1 Contender Tournament in 2008
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