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I must be the only guy who doesn't see this apparent greatness he has on the mic.
I find his mic skills to be really really bad. The way he talks just reminds me of how kids talk on the mic when they're pretending to be their favourite wrestler.
He also pauses way to many times during his promos and what makes it worse is that the majority of the time, he finishes his very short sentences with a rising intonation.
So when he's cutting a promo. And he pauses. It just gives. The promo. A big amateur feel.
To me, everything about him just screams "indy-licious". His "improv" is probably the worst, but when I see him on Raw, I don't see a "WWE Superstar", I just see some indy guy who must have gotten lost on his way to a gym hall. Some people may like that, that he's still "pure" and doesn't fit in with this "WWE Superstar" image, but it just makes him stand out, but not in a good way.
In a roster where you have these larger than life characters, these giant men who look like they could rip your arms off, and masked men that fly around the ring and wrestlers wearing outlandish costumes and men with bodies that look like they were chiseled out of stone, it just looks stupid that you also have some fat guy in gym shorts with a borderline neckbeard and spiked hair from 1999.
I want some characters with my wrestling and Owens has no character. No matter who he's facing, he always looks like he shouldn't be there. Hell, just ditch the gym shorts and the sleeveless T-shirt and that would add character to him. In fact, that would make him look more intimidating. Just lose that but keep the singlet he wears underneath his T-shirt and shorts that he uses to stop his gut hanging out.
Why not work that into the current storyline? That he ditches the gym shorts and all that and wears a singlet to "look more professional" as he's now Triple H's "chosen one", because right now, I just find him to be completely bland. Hell, I even find Baron Corbin more interesting than him and Baron Corbin sucks.
What adds to his blandness for me is his gimmick, his "thing". What is Owens' "thing"? It's that he's a fighter "KO", "The Prizefighter", "Fight Owens Fight" and all that. Well no shit, he's a wrestler, he's supposed to be a fighter. So all that means nothing to me. You're not exactly going to get a pacifistic wrestler, are you? And in the very rare occasion that you do, this wrestler is not really going to amount to anything but a jobber. So this "He loves to fight" Finlay and Sheamus type thing to me means nothing and is just saying "He's a wrestler".
Just an attire change and give him a manager for mic duties and you get a completely different Kevin Owens. You get a wrestler with character, and not a wrestler who wrestles or a fighter who fights.
If I'm not mistaken, the Raw ratings have been going down or at least struggling since he became champion, so I can't be the only one who doesn't buy into Owens.
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