Kevin Owens: I Want Our WWE Tag Title Run To Be Looked At In The Same Vein As The Usos Reign

At WrestleMania 39, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn finished the story, winning the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Titles by defeating The Usos (Jimmy Uso & Jey Uso). 

Zayn & Owens have been friends and rivals for two decades and across various promotions, and WrestleMania 39 was the culmination of their hard work as a team and feud with The Usos. 

Speaking to Alex McCarthy of Inside The Ropes, the champions commented on winning the titles. 

“Given the history with he and I, it’s doubly, triply, quadruply, special when you take into account the factors that got us here or how we got these. At WrestleMania, in the main event together, and we started out together 20 years ago. When you factor all that in, it’s almost a storybook-type thing. It’s bigger than just winning the Tag Team Championships. I think people recognize that and it’s making this particular tag team title reign special to the audience because they know the story, they know the backstory, they know how and why these are so special for us,” said Zayn. 

Owens commented, “One of the things that I was concerned about before winning them is that when we did get them, I wanted to live up to the Usos title reign. They did a lot for these titles. They worked very hard to get them to the point where they could main event WrestleMania. A lot credit goes to them for that. Honestly, so far in our run, I don’t think we’re anywhere near that. I really want to work really hard, and once we’re all said and done with these titles and somebody else takes them from us, I want to our run to be talked about in the same vein as the Usos. That’s a challenge in itself, they did really incredible. If anything, now, finally, they’re getting their flowers. They’ve been, in my opinion, underappreciated for a long time. That was a big concern to me. I want to live up to the work they’ve done and we’re working our heart out to try to make sure that happens. That’s the one concern for us, to make sure these titles stay at the forefront of stories and keep being as important as they’ve been the last few months.”

Owens & Zayn most recently defended their titles against Pretty Deadly (Kit Wilson & Elton Prince) on the June 30 episode of WWE SmackDown. 

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