Kevin Owens Says He Got Cleared To Wrestle A Few Weeks Back

Kevin Owens got cleared to wrestle a few weeks ago.

At WWE SummerSlam, SmackDown General Manager added two more wrestlers to the WWE Championship number one contendership match. Those stars were Gunther and a returning Kevin Owens.

During the post-show for SummerSlam Sunday, Kevin Owens said that he was cleared for in-ring action just a few weeks back.

“There was a moment I thought it wasn’t gonna happen, and I definitely did not make peace with it. I was not ready. Getting this taken away from you when you’re not ready is hard. But I had such a great group of people around me to support me through it through it: my wife, my kids, my friends, the WWE medical staff, even you (Big E). I would talk to you a lot, but I was never okay with it. Up to a month ago I was like ‘This may be it’. We kept doing scans, it kept not showing what we were hoping for as far as the healing process from the surgery. Then I was like ‘Well maybe it’s not gonna happen.’ Then a couple of weeks ago and they said ‘We finally saw what we needed to see, you can get back in the ring.’ From there, here I am.”

Owens wrestled his first match in 519 days upon his return. He’s currently scheduled to face CM Punk for the Undisputed WWE Championship in the future.

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