Kevin Owens opens up about his mother ‘fighting like hell’ in hospital
Kevin Owens opened up on Friday’s WWE SmackDown, detailing his mother “fighting like hell” in a Quebec hospital on the eve of his six-man tag team match against The Bloodline at WWE Money in the Bank.
Standing in the ring with his tag partners Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton, Owens detailed the week he has spent at his mother’s hospital bedside, and vowing to “kick the asses” of The Bloodline at Saturday’s pay-per-view in Toronto.
Owens said:
“Monday morning I got a call from my dad telling me my mom was rushed to the hospital and I needed to get home.
So I jumped on a flight and I flew back to Quebec, and that’s where I’ve been for the last five days or so. In the same hospital where she gave birth to me, with my dad and my brother at her bedside, watching her fight like hell.
And the shows in Toronto are always super special for all of us cuz the family gets to get together, the kids get to see their grandparents, all the family’s there, and everybody gets to enjoy wrestling together.
But my dad and my mon are not here tonight, they won’t be here tomorrow, because my mom is still in that hospital bed fighting like hell.
I know I could have stayed home tonight and it wouldn’t have been a problem with anybody back there [backstage], or out here [in the ring], and I probably should have stayed home.
But I didn’t. Because the one person it would have been a problem for is my mother. Because ever since I was 11 years old and I discovered professional wrestling and WWE, she did everything she could, along with my dad, to make sure I would realize my dream, get to WWE.
She wanted me to fight like hell. She told me every single time to come in here and leave it all in the ring.
So if she knew, if she heard, that I had missed a show because of her, she’d be so pissed.
So here I am. And Bloodline, let me tell you this — I am more serious than I have ever been in my entire career — tomorrow, win, lose, or draw, all I care about is that I do what my mom has wanted me to do for the last four years. And that is not just kick the living hell out of The Bloodline, it’s to beat their asses worse than ever before.”
Owens, Rhodes, and Orton will face three of Solo Sikoa, Jacob Fatu, Tama Tonga, and Tonga Loa at Money in the Bank in Toronto on Saturday, July 6.
Video of Owens’ promo is embedded below.