According to a report from Sean Ross Sapp on Fightful Select (subscribe here), Kevin Owens skipped this week’s taping for Monday Night RAW. This comes after it was confirmed by WWE that someone in the company recently tested positive for COVID-19.
Here is what Sapp wrote about the situation, including the backstage reaction:
Fightful Select was able to confirm this afternoon that Kevin Owens did not attend today’s WWE Raw tapings. We were told early Wednesday that Owens had communicated to WWE that he wouldn’t be at the next Raw taping after news of the latest COVID-19 test within the company emerged. It was also said that WWE didn’t try to pressure Owens into attending, and there were no issues on the surface with him opting to not participate.
Those that we spoke to in WWE said there was no heat on Owens that they’d heard of, and word was that he expressed his decision respectfully. They’re hoping to have him back by the next set of tapings, but that status is unclear.
Dave Meltzer also added the following on Wrestling Observer Radio (via Ringside News):
“Kevin Owens will not be on this coming RAW because he opted not to stay — he lives in the area, but he decided not to come. They were told that if you don’t want to come you don’t have to come and his wife’s grandfather just passed away from COVID like within the past couple of weeks so the family was concerned obviously with him working with someone who might have COVID in the building. My impression is that he will come back on the 29th so I think he’s just going to miss one week.”
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