During Monday night's episode of RAW, Kevin Owens brutally attacked WWE Champion Big E and turned heel. Fans are hoping this will be a turning point for KO, especially after a questionable couple of years many believe will culminate in him leaving the company for AEW.
Last year, Owens revealed that there were once talks for him to return to NXT as Finn Balor did for a time. That obviously never came to pass, but the former Universal Champion did briefly make a one-night comeback when he joined Tommaso Ciampa, Donovan Dijak, and Keith Lee in the men's WarGames Match during NXT TakeOver: WarGames III.
During a recent interview with talkSPORT, Owens revealed that it was WWE Chairman Vince McMahon who put an end to those plans for an NXT return.
"Before I did the War Games return, there were concrete plans for me to go back to NXT for an extended period before coming back to the main roster," Owens revealed. "At the time Paul Heyman was in charge on Raw and those were just plans we had and Vince [McMahon] had signed off on all of them and, eventually, he changed his mind and nothing happened."
"That’s all it comes down to – what he says goes. It wasn’t something I had just floated about, it was a plan that was going to happen and they just went in a different direction."
It's a shame this didn't happen, especially as Owens was, in many ways, at his best in NXT. We still don't know what the future holds in store for him, but rumour has it his contract expires early 2022.
Stay tuned for updates.