Kevin Owens provides health update

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WWE News: Kevin Owens provides injury update: ‘We don’t have a surgery date yet’

Kevin Owens provided a health update on Sunday afternoon. Owens announced last month that he would need neck surgery and would miss WrestleMania 41. In a video posted to social media on Sunday…

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Kevin Owens provided a health update on Sunday afternoon.

Owens announced last month that he would need neck surgery and would miss WrestleMania 41. In a video posted to social media on Sunday, Owens revealed that he hasn’t had surgery yet and is still determining the best course of action.

Owens said:

“We don’t have a surgery date yet, I have not had surgery yet, despite reports on the contrary. We’re still going to try to figure out what the best way to go about it all is, exactly what needs to be done. So we’re going to figure that out still. There was a lot of uncertainty, but hopefully in the next few weeks we get clarity and we do the surgery and then we go from there.”

“I don’t know what’s happening with my neck. So, we’ll figure it out,” he later added.

In the video, Owens noted that Sunday marked the 10-year anniversary of his WWE main roster debut, when he answered John Cena’s U.S. Championship Open Challenge on the May 18, 2015, episode of Raw. Owens was the reigning NXT Champion at the time and went on to defeat Cena two weeks later at Elimination Chamber 2015 in a non-title champion vs. champion match.

Owens continued:

“This morning I was reminded that 10 years ago today I showed up on Raw for the first time to answer John Cena’s Open Challenge. And that night changed my life forever, changed my career.”

“Now 10 years later, I’m not where I want to be because I wish I was in the ring performing, having matches, contributing. That’s not the case, unfortunately, because of this neck injury. But still, I have to say the last 10 years have been just so amazing. So many amazing moments in the ring, out of the ring, so many amazing people that I’ve had the chance to get to know. I’m just so grateful for all of it.”

Owens ended the video by promoting a book by JJ McGee titled Fight Forever: The Ballad of Kevin & Sami, which was published on May 1. Each chapter focuses on a match involving the two longtime friends from Montreal and the story behind it.

“This woman wrote a book about Sami and I’s career, our journey together. And I cannot say enough good things about her as a writer and as a fan,” Owens said of McGee.

“For the last 20 years we would work together and try to do things, little details, little intricacies that we’d throw in and wonder, hopefully somebody catches it. And we kind of never knew if anyone did. Turns out she did.”

“If you’re a fan of Sami and I, you need to get this book. I cannot say it enough. It’s incredible. She works so hard. And I’m so proud of her. I’m so proud of this. I’m so grateful for her doing that because I’ll have this forever.”