Owens trained with Rougeau and wrestled for Rougeau’s promotion for four years, before beginning to wrestle with several other Canadian promotions, including the International Wrestling Syndicate.
Owens is now signed to WWE where he performs on the Raw brand and is the current WWE Universal Champion in his first reign. He is also a two-time Intercontinental Champion – ROH World Championship and ROH World Tag Team Championship.
Before appearing on WWE’s primary program in May 2015, Owens wrestled in its formative branch NXT, where he held the NXT Championship once.
He is one of four men to have held a world championship in both WWE and ROH.
Owens additionally wrestled extensively on the independent circuit for a 14 years, most notably in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), where he held the PWG World Championship a record three times, and additionally the PWG World Tag Team Championship on three events. He additionally vied for All American Wrestling (AAW), where he held the AAW Heavyweight Championship, and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), where he held the CZW Iron Man Championship.

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