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Kevin Owens teases that he won’t be returning to WWE following his attack on Cody Rhodes

Aaron Rift

After the 2024 WWE Bad Blood PLE went off the air, Kevin Owens officially turned heel when he attacked Cody outside in the arena parking lot. Just prior to the October 18th 2024 edition of WWE Smackdown, Owens made the following comments in a video published to his Twitter/X…

“I’ve been in WWE now for about 10 years. Actually, it’s been over 10 years, just recently. I’ve had a lot of ups and downs over those 10 years, but I don’t think things have ever felt as bad as they do right now. Because for WWE officials to tell me to stay home and not come to work, not come to Smackdown where I belong because of what I did to Cody Rhodes after Bad Blood is just so unfair and ridiculous. I mean, Look at what we’ve seen WWE superstars do to each other in and out of the ring, in the locker rooms, all the ambush attacks, the beat-downs. And I get told to stay away because I dropped little golden boy outside of a stupid bus? Come on. That really makes me ask myself just how appreciated and valued I am by this company. But that I can live with. I can get past that.

What I can’t get over, though, is what Randy Orton did to me. Randy, I can’t believe that you betrayed me like that. You can let people say whatever they want about me. Kevin Owens turns on all his friends, blah, blah, blah. It doesn’t matter. I would have never done that to you, ever. Because I thought what we had was different. Dude, I just can’t believe you picked Cody Rhodes over me. I got to be honest with everybody, with everything that’s happening right now between the disrespect shown to me by WWE and Randy breaking my trust like that, I really don’t know if or when I can come back.”

This past May during an interview with The Metro UK to promote the 2024 Backlash: France PLE, Kevin Owens noted that he had nine months left on his WWE contract. It was later reported that Owens had been approached for a new contract.