Kevin Owens: "I didn't want to be like Dolph Ziggler when I arrived in WWE."

Kevin Owens has admitted that he didn’t want to be like Dolph Ziggler when he came to WWE.

WrestleMania Saturday’s main eventer, Owens, was a guest on a recent episode of WWE After The Bell with Corey Graves, where among several different topics – including his match with Stone Cold Steve Austin and a potential programme with actor Matthew McConaughey – he discussed the frustration he saw when looking at Dolph Ziggler.

Owens says that while he has a ton of respect for The Show-off, he could see how frustrated he was at points in his WWE career and confessed that he never wanted to feel the same when he arrived in WWE.

“He’s a guy I respect a ton, and I don’t think I’ve ever told him this but he’s one of the guys that I would look at and be like, ‘I don’t want to be like Dolph. In the sense that he’s so good and I would see him so frustrated because he’s so good and he feels like he should be doing more, and he was right. I remember thinking, man, I don’t want to be like that. This was when I was first [in WWE] in 2014-15, I was like, I don’t want to be like that, I want to come to work and I don’t want to be frustrated all the time.”

The 37-year-old, who signed with WWE in 2014, elaborated more on the subject by stating that anyone with passion in this industry is in danger of feeling dissatisfied because they are always looking to do more.

“But guess what, when you’re passionate and hungry and know you’re good, which is what he is, it’s inevitable. It’s going to happen to everybody. If you don’t go through that at one point, I’m not going to say you’re in the wrong business because that’s cliche and I don’t believe that, maybe you just have a different perspective, but the hunger to do more and to be able to contribute