Life Before Wrestling - Kevin Owens (Patreon)

Welcome everyone to the first installment of Life Before Wrestling!

You might be asking yourself, what is Life Before Wrestling? It's pretty self-explanatory.

What was life like before entering the world of professional wrestling?

We will be featuring different wrestlers each week from different promotions including WWE, All Elite Wrestling, New Japan Pro Wrestling, Ring of Honor and more!

Without further ado, we present to you, Life Before Wrestling.

                                               Life Before Wrestling - Kevin Owens

He's the prizefighter. He has been an NXT Champion, Intercontinental Champion, ROH World Champion & Universal Champion. We know him inside a ring but do you know him outside a WWE ring?

Kevin Owens, real name Kevin Yanick Steen was born on May 7, 1984 in the small town of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, a short half-hour drive from Marieville (where he was raised) and forty minutes away from Montreal. Owens is the son to Suzanne (Mother) & Terry (Father) Steen. 

Owens grew up in the French-speaking province of Quebec and is of French-Canadian ancestry and speaks French as his first language. Owens learned how to speak English in grade four when he participated in trivia. He would pick up things that the announce team were saying, for example, Jim Ross calling a Vader 'Elbow Drop'. Owens knew that Vader's elbow was the part of his body that was making the most impact to his opponent which led Kevin to have mental images of wrestlers performing moves and would apply that to his answer in trivia.

Owens was a sports junkie as a kid as he participated in numerous sports including hockey, soccer and baseball. Owens never thought he'd make the pro league in any of those sports, especially soccer when he suffered an injury at the age of eleven.

Owens is a husband to his wife, Karina, someone who he was with when they were in their teens. In multiple interviews over the years, Kevin has given all the credit to Karina for taking care of their two children, Owen & Elodie while he was on the road. Kevin's son Owen was named after fellow Canadian, Owen Hart. Fun Fact: Kevin wanted his WWE last name to be Owens for his son and Owen Hart.

On next week's Life Before Wrestling we will be focusing on NXT Superstar, Aleister Black.

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