Kewin Owens Bio

 Kevin Owens Bio

 Name                      :          Kevin Yanick Steen

Ring Name             :          Kevin Owens

Birth Date              :          7 May 1984

Birth Place             :          Quebec, Canada 

 Mini Bio

Kevin Yanick Steen (conceived May 7, 1984) is a Canadian expert wrestler marked to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Kevin Owens and is the current WWE Universal Champion in his first rule. He is likewise a two-time Intercontinental Champion. Preceding appearing on WWE's fundamental program in May 2015, Owens wrestled in its formative branch NXT, where he held the NXT Championship once.

Steen started his vocation in 2000 at 16 years old. Before joining WWE in late 2014, from 2007 Steen wrestled under his original name for Ring of Honor (ROH), where he held the ROH World Championship and ROH World Tag Team Championship. Alongside CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, and Seth Rollins, he is one of four men to have held a big showdown in both WWE and ROH.

Steen additionally wrestled broadly on the autonomous circuit for a long time, most outstandingly in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), where he held the PWG World Championship a record three times, and also the PWG World Tag Team Championship on three events. Steen additionally vied for All American Wrestling (AAW), where he held the AAW Heavyweight Championship, and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), where he held the CZW Iron Man Championship.

Full Bio

Early life

Conceived in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, and brought up in Marieville, Quebec, Steen is of French-Canadian legacy and communicates in French as his first language. He partook in games, for example, hockey, soccer, and baseball. He never thought to be building up a profession out of any of those games, particularly soccer in the wake of torment a harm at age 11. Rather, he considered turning into an expert wrestler in the wake of viewing a VHS tape of the match between Shawn Michaels and Diesel at WrestleMania XI with his father. Steen figured out how to communicate in English as a young person from watching Monday Night Raw and mirroring the promos and critique that he heard.

Early vocation

At the point when Steen was 14, his folks permitted him to begin preparing with Serge Jodoin, a wrestler situated in Quebec. The next year, he started preparing with Jacques Rougeau. He additionally prepared with Terry Taylor, whom he has called his "primary trainer". Steen had his first match on his sixteenth birthday in L'Assomption, Quebec on May 7, 2000. Steen prepared with Rougeau and wrestled for Rougeau's advancement for a long time, before starting to grapple with a few other Canadian advancements, including the International Wrestling Syndicate.

Battle Zone Wrestling

Steen made his Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) debut on September 10, 2004 at the High Stakes occasion. He lost in a lethal four-manner match including El Generico, Excess, and SeXXXy Eddy, the last of which was successful in that match. He kept on showing up with CZW and soon started collaborating with El Generico against Super Dragon and Excalibur.

On May 14, 2005, Steen partook in the "CZW Best of the Best competition" and he progressed to the finals in the wake of overcoming Kenny The Bastard in the first round and Chris Hero in the second round. He was not able hold the trophy, be that as it may, as he lost in the finals, which was a deadly four-way coordinate including B-Boy, Super Dragon, and Mike Quackenbush. Quackenbush won the match.

A couple of months after the fact in August, Steen won his first title in CZW. He stuck Franky The Mobster to win the CZW Iron Man Championship. He went ahead to shield the title in individual matches against Nate Webb, El Generico, Chris Sabin, and Super Dragon. He likewise guarded it in a match including Necro Butcher, D.J. Hyde, B.J. Whitmer, and The Messiah.

In an enclosure match held at CZW Trapped including The Canadians, The Blackout, The Forefathers of CZW, and Eddie Kingston, Steen lost the Ironman Championship to female wrestler LuFisto. He lost the title one day short of having a year-long rule. He then withdrew for a visit with Dragon Gate, and didn't come back to CZW until February 2008 when he showed up and battled Vordell Walker to a no challenge.

Expert Wrestling Guerrilla

While wrestling in CZW, Steen additionally started working for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). On May 13, 2005, at Jason Takes PWG, Steen was gone into his first fight in PWG, when he helped Excalibur crush Super Dragon in a Guerrilla Warfare match, in the process uncovering himself as the fake Super Dragon, who had been assaulting the genuine one the previous few months. On August 6, 2005, Steen won the PWG Championship in the wake of overcoming A.J. Styles at Zombies [Shouldn't Run]. Steen held the title for about four months before losing the title to Joey Ryan at Chanukah Chaos (The C's Are Silent), after impedance from Super Dragon. Steen's quarrel with Super Dragon finished on December 16, 2005, at Astonishing X-Mas, where he was vanquished in a Guerrilla Warfare match.

In 2006, Steen started cooperating with El Generico and they started to seek after the PWG World Tag Team Championship. On July 29, 2007, at Giant Size Annual #4, Steen and Generico crushed the prevailing champions PAC and Roderick Strong to end up the PWG World Tag Team Champions. They effectively protected the belts for right around three months before at last losing them to the group of Davey Richards and Super Dragon on October 27 in England as a feature of PWG's "European Vacation II" tour. The following night, Steen cooperated with PAC trying to recapture the belts from Dragon and Richards, reporting before the match that in the event that he lost, he'd leave the organization inconclusively. Steen and PAC lost, prompting Steen leaving PWG.

Be that as it may, Steen came back to PWG and, alongside El Generico, won the title for a moment time, this time from The Dynasty (Joey Ryan and Scott Lost) on March 21, 2008 in an improvised match. Steen and Generico turned into the main group in PWG history to be a part of the yearly "Explosive Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament" to safeguard the belts in every match they had. In the competition finals, they lost the title to Jack Evans and Roderick Strong, in this way finishing their second reign. Finally, Steen left PWG. As indicated by him, he couldn't wrestle for ROH and PWG in the meantime and picked ROH on account of the cash and the exposure.

Ring of Honor

Joining and quarreling with El Generico

On February 17, 2007, Steen came back to Ring of Honor, collaborating with El Generico in a losing push to the Briscoe Brothers. On April 14, Mark Briscoe returned amidst a match amongst Steen and Generico and his sibling Jay and Erick Stevens. Imprint was assaulted by the twosome, be that as it may, and was stuck by Steen after a bundle piledriver. On May 11, Steen (as a heel) and Generico (as a face) vanquished Jason Blade and Eddie Edwards. At Respect is Earned, Steen and El Generico vanquished The Irish Airborne (Jake and Dave Crist), Pelle Primeau and Mitch Franklin, and Jimmy Rave and Adam Pearce in a Tag Team Scramble dull match. That same night, Steen and El Generico fought with the Briscoe Brothers, finishing with Mark Briscoe experiencing a mellow blackout a steel seat shot. At Driven, the Briscoe Brothers vanquished Steen and El Generico to hold the ROH World Tag Team Championship. Steen and Generico then endured three sequential misfortunes to the Briscoes at Caged Rage in a Steel Cage match, Manhattan Mayhem II in a two out of three falls match, and Man Up in a stepping stool match. Their exclusive label group win over the Briscoes was at Death Before Dishonor V Night 1 in a non-title Boston Street Fight.

On June 6, 2008, Steen and Generico partook in a one night competition to crown new ROH World Tag Team Champions. They vanquished Go Shiozaki and ROH World Champion Nigel McGuiness in the first round and Chris Hero and Adam Pearce in the second round before losing to Jimmy Jacobs and Tyler Black in the finals.

On June 27 in Dayton, Ohio, Steen and Generico crushed The Age of the Fall's Tyler Black and Joey Matthews when Steen stuck Matthews taking after the bundle piledriver. The following day in Chicago Ridge, Illinois, Steen and Generico were crushed by AOTF individuals Black and Necro Butcher when Butcher stuck Steen taking after a move up and a seat shot to the face from Black. On July 25, Steen went head to head against ROH World Champion Nigel McGuinness in a title match for the organization's presentation show in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, however Steen lost the match.

At a compensation for each perspective taping in Boston on September 19, Steen and Generico beat The Age of the Fall to at long last win the ROH World Tag Team Championship. This likewise satisfied Steen's guarantee of winning a title in ROH before the November 21 Dayton appear. They lost the title to The American Wolves (Eddie Edwards and Davey Richards) at a TV taping on April 10, 2009.

On December 19, 2009, at Final Battle 2009, ROH's first live pay-per-view, after a misfortune to The Young Bucks, Steen turned heel by assaulting his label group accomplice El Generico. Steen then found another accomplice in Steve Corino. At the accompanying pay-per-view, The Big Bang!, Generico and Cabana vanquished Steen and Corino by means of preclusion, when Steen utilized a seat on his previous partner. On June 19 at Death Before Dishonor VIII, Steen crushed El Generico in a singles match. On September 11 at Glory By Honor IX Generico and Cabana crushed Steen and Corino in a Double Chain match, when Cabana constrained Corino to tap out. After the match Steen assaulted El Generico and unmasked him. On December 18 at Final Battle 2010 Steen and Generico finished their year–long quarrel in an unsanctioned Fight Without Honor, where Steen put his ROH vocation hanging in the balance against Generico's veil. Be that as it may, Steen disliked the thought, since he would lose cash in the event that he lost, however at last he consented to the match, since he thought ROH would utilize Generico as a top wrestler after the feud. In the end El Generico won the match and in this way constrained Steen out of ROH. The quarrel was voted by Wrestler Observer News

Preceding the result, on November 4, 2010, Kevin Steen's agreement concurrence with Ring of Honor finished because of money related spending concerns, which at last assumed a part inside the stipulations of the match. Steen composed the majority of the El Generico contention storyline himself, however he guarantees that his poor association with new booker Jim Cornette, who had little enthusiasm for either Steen or Generico, brought about a lot of disappointment for him. During the quarrel, ROH booker Adam Pearce guaranteed Steen he would headliner Final Battle, yet Cornette made Davey Richards-Eddie Edwards the headliner and Steen-Generico after the event. Steen additionally asserts that Cornette "solidified" him out of ROH, trusting he was likewise keeping the advancement's leader Cary Silkin oblivious on when Steen would be brought back.

Wrestling's Worst Nightmare

At the point when Steen was hauled out of ROH occasions, ROH President Cary Silkin paid him each month. Cornette told Steen he would be brought back a couple of months after the fact, so Steen lost 40 lb (18 kg), however when ROH was sold, Cornette instructed him to hold up another six months. Steen was troubled and ate a ton and put on a weight of 291 lb (132 kg). His agreement lapsed in February 2011. After marking another agreement with the promotion, Steen came back to Ring of Honor on June 26, 2011, best case scenario in the World 2011, being presented by Corino, who had turned face not long after Steen's takeoff from the advancement and guaranteed that he required recovery too. Be that as it may, ROH authorities constrained him to leave the field before he could demonstrate that he was a changed man. After Corino was vanquished by Michael Elgin, Steen kept running into spare him from a beatdown on account of the House of Truth, however wound up turning on him and his supporter Jimmy Jacobs. Subsequently, Steen was dragged out of the field, while Jim Cornette swore that he could never again wrestle for ROH. The first thought was to present Steen as a recovery wrestler. Notwithstanding, Steen turned down the thought, since he would not "like to resemble The Bravado Brothers". Though Steen was reserved as the heel of the storyline, the fans agreed with his stance and rather booed Cornette. The storyline proceeded on July 22, when Steen attacked ROH's legitimate message board, composing posts lauding Pro Wrestling Guerrilla. On September 15, ROH's message board was "hacked" to divert to a video, where Steen reported his aim of going to ROH's Death Before Dishonor IX the accompanying weekend.

At the compensation per-view on September 17, Steen intruded on a match between El Generico and Jimmy Jacobs and got out Steve Corino, who was at the time wrestling in Japan, before powerbombing Jacobs on the ring smock. Steen was then gone up against by Jim Cornette and ROH president Cary Silkin, whom he attempted to Package Piledrive, before being introduced of the field by the security. On the November 5 scene of Ring of Honor Wrestling, Steen returned with Ohio Valley Wrestling ability Christian Mascagni as his lawful counselor, debilitating Jim Cornette and Ring of Honor with lawful activity unless he was restored inside three weeks. On the December 3 scene of Ring of Honor Wrestling, Steen was allowed a match with Steve Corino at Final Battle 2011, with his ROH future on the line. At the occasion, Steen vanquished Corino, subsequently conceding back his vocation in ROH. A while later, he conveyed a bundle piledriver to Jimmy Jacobs, before putting El Generico through a table with the same move. Toward the end of the night, he went up against Davey Richards and guaranteed to wind up the ROH World Champion in 2012. On March 4, 2012, at the tenth Anniversary Show, Steen vanquished Jimmy Jacobs in a No Holds Barred match and finished the compensation per-view by having another encounter with Davey Richards. Steen proceeded with his win streak amid the Showdown in the Sun weekend, first crushing El Generico, with assistance from Jimmy Jacobs, in a Last Man Standing match on March 30 and afterward Eddie Edwards in a singles match on March 31. On May 12 at Border Wars, Steen crushed Davey Richards to win the ROH World Championship interestingly, making him the main Canadian to hold the championship.

Taking after the match, Steve Corino entered the ring and embraced Steen and Jacobs; the three men went ahead to frame a stable later named S.C.U.M. (Enduring, Chaos, Ugliness, and Mayhem). Steen made his first fruitful title resistance on June 15, crushing Eddie Edwards. On June 24, best case scenario in the World 2012: Hostage Crisis, Steen vanquished Davey Richards to hold the ROH World Championship. At the accompanying pay-per-view, Boiling Point on August 11, Steen effectively protected his title against Chikara Grand Champion Eddie Kingston. On September 15 at Death Before Dishonor X: State of Emergency, Steen made another effective title guard against Rhino. On October 6, a title match amongst Steen and Jay Lethal finished in a no challenge in Lethal's home condition of New Jersey, after which Steen spat at Lethal's folks, who were sitting at ringside. Seven days after the fact at the accompanying web pay-per-view, Glory By Honor XI: The Unbreakable Hope, Steen made an effective title barrier against Michael Elgin. Thereafter, Steen was conveyed a container, which contained El Generico's mask. On December 16 at Final Battle 2012: Doomsday, Steen effectively guarded the ROH World Championship against the returning El Generico in a stepping stool match. On March 2, 2013, at the eleventh Anniversary Show, Steen vanquished Jay Lethal in a fight to hold the ROH World Championship. On April 5 at Supercard of Honor VII, Steen lost the ROH World Championship to Jay Briscoe.

Last fights

At the next night's recordings of Ring of Honor Wrestling, S.C.U.M. turned on Steen, with Corino declaring that he would not be seen in ROH again. Steen, be that as it may, came back to ROH on May 4, now filling in as a face and supplanting Jay Lethal in a label group match, where he and Michael Elgin confronted S.C.U.M's. Cliff Compton and Jimmy Jacobs. The match finished with Jacobs sticking Steen for the win, after which Elgin left him. Steen proceeded with his competition with S.C.U.M. on June 22, best case scenario in the World 2013, where he was crushed by Matt Hardy in a No Disqualification match. The next day, Steen supplanted The Briscoes because of wounds in a Steel Cage Warfare coordinate and constrained his previous stable out of ROH, in spite of obstruction from Corino and Hardy, when he stuck Jimmy Jacobs to win the match and disband S.C.U.M. On August 3, Steen entered a competition for the empty ROH World Championship, overcoming Brian Kendrick in his first round match. On August 17, Steen progressed to the elimination rounds of the competition with a win over Roderick Strong. On September 20 at Death Before Dishonor XI, Steen was killed from the competition by Michael Elgin. Following the competition, Steen began fighting with Michael Bennett. The tricky off on October 26 at Glory By Honor XII, where Bennett was successful, after a diversion from his sweetheart Maria Kanellis. On December 14 at Final Battle 2013, Steen vanquished Bennett in a Stretcher match, where the failure would be compelled to quit utilizing the piledriver. On February 8, 2014, Steen earned a shot at the ROH World Championship by vanquishing Jay Lethal, Michael Elgin and Tommaso Ciampa in a four-manner number one contender's match. Steen got his title match on May 10 in Toronto at Global Wars, yet was crushed by the safeguarding champion, Adam Cole. After losing to Shinsuke Nakamura at the Ring of Honor/New Japan Pro Wrestling co-delivered War of the Worlds iPPV on May 17, Steen declared he was leaving ROH. This prompted him being offended and assaulted by Silas Young. After crushing Young on June 22, best case scenario in the World 2014, Steen reported that his agreement was fulfilled in a "month and a half". At the July 19 Ring of Honor Wrestling recordings, Steen vanquished Steve Corino in his last ROH match.

Come back to PWG

At the point when Steen left ROH in 2010, his companion Super Dragon requesting that he wrestle in PWG and Steen agreed. On December 11, 2010, Steen wrestled Akira Tozawa for his first PWG win in two years. He has since come back to a more noticeable part in the organization following a couple of sporadic years (having just shown up somewhere around 2009 and 2010). On January 29, 2011, Steen was crushed by Chris Hero at PWG's yearly WrestleReunion-supported occasion. Later that night, after a four-way label group match to figure out which of four groups would enter the 2011 DDT4 competition, Steen headed out to assault the inevitable champs, the RockNES Monsters (Johnny Goodtime and Johnny Yuma), before proclaiming his aim of winning the DDT4 tournament. On February 2, 2011, it was declared that Steen would group with Akira Tozawa for the competition, which occurred on March 4. In their first round match, Steen and Tozawa, referred to on the whole as the Nightmare Violence Connection, scored an agitated triumph over the Briscoe Brothers (Jay and Mark Briscoe). After another resentful triumph over the ROH World Tag Team Champions, The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli), Steen and Tozawa made it to the finals of the competition, where they were, in any case, vanquished by The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson). On July 23 at PWG's eighth commemoration appear, Steen initially crushed PAC in a singles match, before cooperating with CIMA to overcome PWG World Tag Team Champions, The Young Bucks, in a non-title match. After Claudio Castagnoli had vanquished Chris Hero in the headliner of the night to hold the PWG World Championship, Steen tested him to a match and, in his third match of the night, crushed him to win the PWG World Championship for the second time. At the accompanying occasion on August 20, Steen entered the 2011 Battle of Los Angeles, overcoming Dave Finlay and Eddie Edwards in his first round and elimination round matches. Later that same night, Steen was crushed in the finals by old adversary El Generico. On September 10, Steen made his first PWG World Championship resistance, vanquishing previous champion Davey Richards. On October 22, Steen lost the PWG World Championship to El Generico in a stepping stool match, taking after obstruction from The Young Bucks. After the match Super Dragon showed up in more than three years by sparing Steen with the two tolerating The Young Bucks' test for a Guerrilla Warfare match. On December 10, Steen and Dragon, referred to all things considered as "Hankering for Destruction", crushed The Young Bucks in a Guerrilla Warfare match to win the PWG World Tag Team Championship. On March 17, Steen vanquished El Generico and Eddie Edwards in a three-manner match to win the PWG World Championship for the third time. Steen made his first title barrier on April 21, overcoming Sami Callihan in an open challenge. On May 25, Steen effectively protected the PWG World Championship against Brian Cage-Taylor. That same night, Steen and Dragon were stripped of the PWG World Tag Team Championship, after Dragon was sidelined with a heel fracture. On July 21 at Threemendous III, PWG's ninth commemoration occasion, Steen made his third fruitful safeguard of the PWG World Championship against Willie Mack. On September 1, Steen was disposed of from the 2012 Battle of Los Angeles in the first round by Ricochet, taking after a diversion from Brian Cage. After having his title belt stolen from him by the 2012 Battle of Los Angeles victor Adam Cole, Steen effectively shielded the title in a three-manner match against Michael Elgin and Ricochet on October 27, after which he tested Cole to a match for December 1. On December 1, Steen lost the PWG World Championship to Adam Cole in a Guerrilla Warfare match. After El Generico had consented to an arrangement with WWE, he and Steen rejoined once again on January 12, 2013, by entering the 2013 Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament. After wins over the Briscoe Brothers and Future Shock (Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly), they were vanquished in the finals of the competition by The Young Bucks. On August 31, Steen turned heel and framed another stable named "The Mount Rushmore of Wrestling" with PWG World Champion Adam Cole and PWG World Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks. On July 26, 2014, Steen was crushed by Trevor Lee in his PWG goodbye match.

WWE

NXT Champion

On August 12, 2014, WWE reported that Steen had marked with them and was because of report to their formative framework NXT on August 25. His new ring name had just the surname changed to Owens, a tribute to his child Owen, and NXT started airing special recordings from November 20 to buildup his up and coming debut. Owens point by point that he had wrestled for a long time before making it to WWE, having confronted (and shaped a kinship with) a few current WWE or NXT wrestlers on the autonomous circuit years prior, yet WWE marked them first and now that he was here, Owens proclaimed that he would battle anybody and everybody, since battling was the most ideal way he could accommodate his family.

At the NXT TakeOver: R Evolution live exceptional scene on December 11, Owens crushed CJ Parker in his presentation match, in which Parker really gave Owens a broken nose with his Third Eye (palm strike) completing move; still, soon thereafter, when Sami Zayn (the previous El Generico) won the NXT Championship, Owens went to the ring to salute Zayn before powerbombing him into the ring overskirt to set up himself as a heel. On the December 18, 2014 scene of NXT, Owens wrestled previous NXT Champion Adrian Neville to a twofold countout and powerbombed Neville into the cook's garment after the match. After yet another post-match assault by Owens on Zayn, a furious Zayn requested a match against Owens, however Owens declined to wrestle unless it was for the title. Zayn concurred and a title match was set for NXT TakeOver: Rival on February 11, 2015. At the occasion, Owens caught the title (two months to the day in the wake of appearing) from Zayn by means of arbitrator stoppage, having powerbombed a disorientated Zayn five times, and was halted before he could execute a sixth. On the March 25 scene of NXT, he effectively held the NXT title against Finn Bálor. At NXT TakeOver: Unstoppable, Owens' rematch for the title against Sami Zayn went to a no-challenge after Owens kept on thumping a harmed Zayn, until the appearing Samoa Joe ceased him. After weeks of strain between the two, Owens confronted Joe on the June 17 scene of NXT. After the match went to a no challenge, the two kept on fighting until they must be separated. On the July 4 WWE Network extraordinary occasion held in Tokyo, Japan, Owens lost the NXT Championship to Finn Bálor, finishing his rule at 143 days. At NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn, Owens had his rematch for the title in a stepping stool match against Bálor, yet he neglected to recover the title in what might have been his last match and appearance in NXT.

Intercontinental Champion

Owens made his unannounced principle program debut on the May 18, 2015 scene of Raw reacting to John Cena's United States Championship open test. In any case, rather than contending in the match, Owens assaulted Cena and stepped on the United States title in a show of discourtesy, setting up a non-title match between the two at Elimination Chamber on May 31, which Owens won neatly by pinfall. A rematch between the two occurred in June, at Money in the Bank, which Cena won, and after the match, Owens powerbombed Cena onto the ring apron. Owens later tested Cena to a match for the United States Championship, which occurred at Battleground, on July 20, which Cena won by accommodation, in this manner finishing their feud. Following the misfortune to Cena, Owens entered a quarrel with Cesaro, vanquishing him in two matches – at SummerSlam on August 23 and on a scene of Raw eight days later.

On September 20 at Night of Champions, Owens crushed Ryback after a rake to the eyes took after by a move up to win his first singles title on the principle program, the Intercontinental Championship, turning into the primary French-Canadian to hold a title in WWE since Maryse won the Divas Championship in 2010. On October 3, Owens' first title protection went ahead the WWE Network unique, Live from Madison Square Garden, where Owens vanquished Chris Jericho after at the end of the day controlling his adversaries vision. On October 25, at Hell in a Cell, Owens effectively shielded his title in a rematch against Ryback. Owens then partook in the competition for the empty WWE World Heavyweight Championship, in which he vanquished Titus O'Neil and Neville, however lost to Dean Ambrose in the elimination rounds at Survivor Series. Owens then entered a fight with Ambrose, where he lost the Intercontinental Championship to Ambrose at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs on December 13, finishing his rule at 84 days. On the January 14, 2016 scene of SmackDown, Owens tested Ambrose for the Intercontinental Championship, with the match finishing in a twofold countout. On January 24 at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view, Owens got a rematch for the title in a Last Man Standing match, which he was unsuccessful, and soon thereafter, Owens entered the Rumble match as the eighteenth participant, where he killed the appearing AJ Styles, before being disposed of by long time rival Sami Zayn.

The next night on Raw, Owens entered a fight with Dolph Ziggler, with the two exchanging triumphs over each other on consecutive scenes of Raw. On the February 15 scene of Raw, Owens won the Intercontinental Championship for a moment time, vanquishing previous champion Dean Ambrose, Stardust, Tyler Breeze and Ziggler in a deadly five-manner match. At Fastlane, Owens guarded the Intercontinental Championship in a match against Ziggler, which he won. At Wrestlemania 32, Owens protected the Intercontinental Championship in a step match against Sami Zayn, Dolph Ziggler, The Miz, Stardust, Sin Cara and Zack Ryder; Owens lost the title when Ryder won the match after Zayn removed him from the match. The night after WrestleMania on Raw, Owens confronted AJ Styles, Chris Jericho, and the returning Cesaro in a lethal four-manner match to decide the No. 1 contender for Roman Reigns' recently won WWE World Heavyweight Championship; be that as it may, Owens lost the match when Styles stuck Jericho. He continued the quarrel with long-lasting adversary Sami Zayn after he assaulted him on Raw, which prompted a singles match on May 1 at Payback, where Owens vanquished Zayn through pinfall. At Extreme Rules, Owens confronted Zayn, Cesaro and Miz in a lethal four-manner match for the Intercontinental Championship, however neglected to recover the title when Miz stuck Cesaro. Despite not winning the Intercontinental title, this match implied Owens had turned into the main other WWE wrestler, other than The Undertaker, to show up on each compensation per-view occasion in their introduction year on the primary roster. The next night on Raw, Owens crushed AJ Styles to fit the bill for the 2016 Money in the Bank step match, yet he neglected to win the match. During the 2016 WWE draft, Owens was drafted to Raw, alongside opponent Sami Zayn. At Battleground, Owens was vanquished by Zayn. At SummerSlam, Owens cooperated with Chris Jericho to overcome Enzo Amore and Big Cass.

WWE Universal Champion

On the August 22 scene of Raw, Owens crushed Neville to fit the bill for the empty WWE Universal Championship four-way end coordinate the accompanying week. On August 29, Owens vanquished Big Cass, Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins with impedance from Triple H to end up the new WWE Universal Champion, his first world title in WWE, and in addition being the third man, after Seth Rollins and Finn Bálor, to win the NXT Championship and a big showdown on the principle roster.

Individual life

Steen and his better half Karina[unreliable source] have a child named Owen (named after Owen Hart – Owens committed his ringname to both Hart and his son) and a girl named Élodie Leila. In May 2008, toward the end of the DDT4 Night One occasion, Steen's then-six-month-old child showed up in a section with Excalibur, in which Excalibur called him monstrous and it provoked Steen to perform three continuous bundle piledrivers on Excalibur before setting his child on top of Excalibur for the pin.

Titles and achievements

All American Wrestling

AAW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Capital City Championship Combat

C*4 Championship (1 time)

C*4 Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mike Bailey

C*4 Championship Tournament (2009)

Battle Revolution Wrestling

CRW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Pat Skillz

Battle Zone Wrestling

CZW Iron Man Championship (1 time)

First class Wrestling Revolution

EWR Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

EWR Heavyweight Championship Tournament (2004)

First class 8 Tournament (2005)

Global Wrestling Syndicate

IWS Canadian Championship (1 time)

IWS World Heavyweight Championship (3 times)

North Shore Pro Wrestling

NSPW Championship (1 time)

Genius Wrestling Guerrilla

PWG World Championship (3 times)

PWG World Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with El Generico (2) and Super Dragon (1)

Genius Wrestling Illustrated

Positioned No. 6 of the main 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016

Ring of Honor

ROH World Championship (1 time)

ROH World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with El Generico

ROH World Championship #1 Contender Tournament (2008)

Moving Stone

Best Heel (2015)

Best Promos (2015) Tie with John Cena

Best Storyline (2015) versus John Cena

New kid on the block of the Year (2015)

WWE Match of the Year (2015) versus John Cena at Money in the Bank

WWE Wrestler of the Year (So Far) (2015)

SoCal Uncensored

Match of the Year (2011) with Super Dragon versus The Young Bucks on December 10

Wrestler of the Year (2005, 2011, 2012)

Squared Circle Wrestling

2CW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

2CW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jason Ax

2CW Heavyweight Championship Tournament (2012)

Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Best Brawler (2010–2012)

Fight of the Year (2010) versus El Generico

WWE

WWE Universal Championship (1 time, current)

WWE Intercontinental Championship (2 times)

WWE NXT

NXT Championship (1 time)