With the big Ring Of Honor and New Japan Pro Wrestling G1 Supercard event next April at Madison Square Garden selling out, even the most jaded of wrestling fans can’t deny that it’s a big deal for both companies and an indication of just how healthy the wrestling business today is overall.

One former Ring Of Honor star and current WWE Superstar, Kevin Owens, recently spoke to the Gorilla Position about the success his former employer is now seeing with the Madison Square Garden event, offering up a different kind of take on ROH selling out the arena and if he sees it as a “threat” to the WWE:

“I absolutely don’t think it’s a threat. I think it’s great for everybody involved and WWE thrives on competition. It did for a long time. I think healthy competition is great and I think WWE would agree, but WWE will always try to go out and be better than everybody else and I think that’s why they got to the point where they’re at, you know? They want to be bigger and they want to do things other companies can’t and they’re never gonna change that way. The fact that all these companies are thriving is great for everybody involved. Whether it’s wrestlers who are up and coming and trying to make a career or even wrestler that might eventually leave WWE, it gives them a place to go to.

Look, the wrestling world is changing and it’s very exciting to see, but I think it would be silly to look at these companies thriving and not feel like WWE is a big part of them thriving as well. You know what I mean? Even Ring Of Honor selling out Madison Square Garden is fantastic, it’s unbelievable…but they’re selling it out on WrestleMania weekend, you know what I mean? So I feel people should still be grateful to WWE and I know some people…that’s not the cool thing to admit that WWE might not be this giant thing trying to hurt the indies. I know a lot of people feel that they are, but I couldn’t disagree more and I hope one day Ring Of Honor can sell out Madison Square Garden when WWE’s not in town and everything points to that happening eventually and that’s amazing.”

‘The Prize Fighter’ also spoke about if he would want to go back to the independent scene, All In, SummerSlam, Sami Zayn and much more in the video above.

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