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#2. Kevin Owens was responsible for the introduction of a facemask policy in WWE
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Sean Ross Sapp had first reported on Fightful Select that a Superstar had approached Vince McMahon and expressed his concerns to the WWE Boss regarding the COVID-19 safety procedures that were not appropriately implemented in the company.
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Pat Laprade of the french-language Les anti-pods de la Lutte podcast reported that WWE's new facemask policy came into effect after Kevin Owens was the one who raised his concerns with Vince McMahon. POST Wrestling corroborated the report, which was also revealed by Tom Colohue during his RAW review on July 6th. Gary Cassidy had also alluded to the story on the Wrestling Daft podcast.
Kevin Owens finally confirmed the report in an interview with Sports Illustrated's Justin Barrasso.
"At first, the masks weren't being taken seriously enough. Eventually, a fine system was implemented to make sure people took it seriously. That came from me. I thought that the masks weren't being worn seriously enough, so I went and talked to the people in charge. They immediately did what they could to remedy the situation."
Owens added that several changes had been made and they are duly followed at the WWE tapings.
"Last week, I saw the measures that the company was taking, from the testing to the splitting up the crews to make sure Raw and SmackDown wouldn't be there the same day, and sending out very clear very indications that masks were required unless we were in the ring."
