Kevin Owens has opened up about his mum being rushed to hospital.
Appearing live on the July 5th episode of SmackDown alongside Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton to promote their match against The Bloodline, Owens said that while he could talk about the last 4 years of his battles with The Bloodline, he wanted to instead talk about the last week.
Cutting an emotional promo in front of the Toronto crowd, Owens stated that his mum has been fighting in hospital and that he could have missed the show and no one would have had a problem with it, but his mother would have. Owens ended by issuing a statement to The Bloodline that he would put it all on the line at Money in the Bank:
“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.
“She Did Everything She Could To Help Me Realise My Dream”: Kevin Owens
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.”
Features of Wrestling would like to send our best wishes to the family of Kevin Owens at this time.
