I guess that is what annoys the shit out of me about this guy. He admittedly works his whole career to get into WWE, he gets there, against all odds he becomes a big success, and his response is: "Okay, now this is where I take it easy."
Yeah, it bugs me too. I thought he was great the first year or so on the main roster. But he's turned all those great little aspects of his character into lazy crutches.
I wasn't always this way.
I was in the crowd at Ring of Honor's Northern Navigation in Toronto in July 2008. I had only seen a couple of Steen & Generico matches prior to that, but after seeing his match with Nigel McGuinness for the ROH title that night, I walked out of that arena as a Kevin Steen fan. I loved his tag matches with Generico against The Briscoes, and I wanted to like him in WWE, I really did. But he has been slowly draining my will to live since Wrestlemania.
I'm glad to know it's not just me and that fellow PWO members whose opinions I respect are seeing the same things I am.
It's been a total bummer. I booked a whole year of my Filsinger card game promotion around that early Kevin Owens character because I liked it so much. He's a constant source of disappoint since he won the belt. It's like he knows his place is safe because he's one of HHH's boys and doesn't need to try anymore.