So what really happened with the handcuff spot in the Last Man Standing match for the WWE Universal Heavyweight Championship match at last month's WWE Royal Rumble 2021 pay-per-view?
Who better to ask than Kevin Owens?
The man who came up short in his attempt to dethrone Roman Reigns in hopes of capturing the Universal Title spoke about the botched handcuff spot during a recent appearance on The Jake Asman Show.
Featured below is an excerpt from the podcast where Owens talks about this particular subject.
“I’ve never been cheated by a referee that way before. He [Reigns] brought handcuffs, I handcuffed him to something and I thought I had him, I really did have him. Some screw-ups from the referees and here I am, sitting in my car without the Universal Championship.”
“I’m still in recovery from the Royal Rumble,” said the former Universal Champion. “It was a pretty rough night. I was thrown off a 12-foot platform onto a bunch of tables, I got hit by a golf cart, I jumped off a forklift that was about 10 feet in the air, I burned my arm on a light that was part of our setup, and to top it all, I didn’t win because a referee got paid off or something.”
Check out the complete podcast at Apple.com.
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