With the tag team championships win, Owens became the 23rd overall Grand Slam Champion.
He has also main evented WrestleMania on two occasions, the first at WrestleMania 38, in which he wrestled "Stone Cold" Steve Austin in a one-off match 19 years after Austin's retirement and the second at WrestleMania 39, where he teamed with Zayn to face The Usos.
1984
Kevin Yanick Steen (born on May 7, 1984) is a Canadian professional wrestler.
He is currently signed to WWE,
where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Kevin Owens.
Kevin Steen was born on May 7, 1984, in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, and raised in Marieville, Quebec, 18 miles east of Montreal.
He has a brother named Edward Lower.
He is of French-Canadian and Irish descent and speaks French as his first language.
He learned to speak English by mimicking everything he heard while watching WWF Monday Night Raw.
Steen participated in ice hockey, soccer, and baseball, but never considered developing a career out of them—especially soccer, after suffering an injury at age 11—and instead considered becoming a professional wrestler after he and his father watched a videotape of the match between Diesel and Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XI.
When Steen was 14, his parents allowed him to start training with Serge Jodoin, a wrestler based in Quebec.
The following year, Steen began training with Jacques Rougeau.
He also trained with Terry Taylor, whom he has called his "main trainer".
2000
Steen began his career in 2000, at the age of 16.
Steen had his first match on May 7, 2000 (his 16th birthday) in L'Assomption, Quebec.
Steen trained with Rougeau and wrestled for Rougeau's promotion for four years, before beginning to wrestle with several other Canadian promotions.
2003
On August 16, 2003, Steen made his International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS) debut at Born to Bleed.
Pierre Carl Ouellet defeated El Generico and Steen at Blood, Sweat and Beers in a triple threat match on October 18, 2003.
On November 15 at Payback's A Bitch, El Generico defeated Steen in their first-ever singles match against each other.
2004
IWS held its 5th anniversary show "V" on June 15, 2004, at Le SPAG, where El Generico defeated PCO in an IWS title match to win his first IWS World Heavyweight Championship, only to have Steen cash in his #1 contendership won earlier that night against Excess 69.
Steen defeated El Generico, also winning his first IWS World Heavyweight Championship.
Steen's first title reign in 2004, marked a pivotal milestone in the history of the promotion when he became the first IWS World Heavyweight Champion to internationally defend the title, in defeating Roderick Strong on October 30 in Rahway, New Jersey for Jersey All Pro Wrestling (JAPW).
Steen made his Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) debut on September 10, 2004, at High Stakes II, where SeXXXy Eddy defeated Steen, El Generico & Excess 69 in an IWS 4-Way Match, which was unofficially chosen as "CZW Match of the Year".
2005
On May 14, 2005, Steen took part in the "CZW Best of the Best tournament" and he advanced to the finals after defeating Kenny The Bastard in the first round and Chris Hero in the second round.
He was unable to clench the trophy, however, as he lost in the finals in a fatal four-way match involving B-Boy, Super Dragon, and Mike Quackenbush.
A few months later in August, Steen defeated Franky The Mobster to win the CZW Iron Man Championship.
He went on to defend the championship in individual matches against Nate Webb, El Generico, Chris Sabin, and Super Dragon.
In a steel cage match held at CZW Trapped involving The Canadians, The Blackout, The Forefathers of CZW, and Eddie Kingston, Steen lost the Ironman Championship to female wrestler LuFisto.
He lost the championship one day shy of having a year-long reign.
2007
On September 22, 2007, at Blood, Sweat & Beers, Steen defeated Jay Briscoe.
2008
On February 16, 2008, at Violent Valentine, El Generico defeated Steen for the IWS World Heavyweight Championship.
On March 22, 2008, at Know Your Enemies, Steen regained the IWS World Heavyweight Championship by defeating Max Boyer & former champion El Generico in a 3-Way match.
On May 24, 2008, at Freedom to Fight, Steen became the first-ever to hold two IWS titles simultaneously when he defeated Max Boyer to win the IWS Canadian Championship in an IWS Championship Unification match.
He then departed for a tour with Dragon Gate, and did not return to CZW until February 2008 when he made a one-time appearance and fought Vordell Walker to a no contest.
2014
Prior to joining WWE in late 2014, he wrestled under his birth name for Ring of Honor (ROH), where he held the ROH World Championship and ROH World Tag Team Championship.
He also wrestled extensively on the independent circuit for 14 years, most notably in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), where he held the PWG World Championship a record three times, as well as the PWG World Tag Team Championship on three occasions.
Steen also competed for International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS), where he held the IWS World Heavyweight Championship three times, All American Wrestling (AAW), where he held the AAW Heavyweight Championship, and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), where he held the CZW Iron Man Championship.
Steen signed with WWE in August 2014, and joined their developmental branch NXT before debuting on the main roster in May 2015.
In WWE, he has won nine championships – the NXT Championship once, the Universal Championship once, the Intercontinental Championship twice, the United States Championship three times, and the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship (the Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships) once with Sami Zayn.
Steen returned to CZW six years later, competing in two matches for the promotion in 2014.
