Kevin Owens gives backstage details on how he was added to NXT Takeover: WarGames

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Triple H and Kevin Owens

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Kevin Owens was a surprise addition to Team Ciampa in the NXT Takeover: WarGames show last weekend. Owens returned to where it all began for him in the WWE on the black and gold brand, and he put on one hell of a show. He replaced Johnny Gargano in Team Ciampa after Gargano had to pull out due to injury.

While speaking to Corey Graves in this week's After The Bell podcast, he revealed how his appearance on NXT came about. The former Universal Champion said that he had kept the door open to a return to NXT and had spoken to Triple H previously about it.

"It's been a constant throughout the last few years that any time I hear anybody at NXT getting injured or for some reason not being able to make a show, whether it's a storyline or not, I always send Triple H a text like, 'Hey, if you need somebody, I'm here. Hahahahaha.' We always have that little insider joke, and so the same thing happened when I heard that Gargano was off of TakeOver.

"I immediately texted him saying, 'I hear Johnny's out. I'm available.' And then this time the answer was, 'Well actually, that's a possibility. I'm looking into it.' I was like, 'Oh s--t, alright.' And then he called me in the middle of my European tour a couple of weeks ago and let me know that it was going to happen." 

Owens may not return to NXT anytime soon as he has just begun a feud with Seth Rollins on RAW this past week.

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