Kevin Owens had the opportunity to wrestle against pro wrestling legend ‘Stone Cold' Steve Austin back at WWE's WrestleMania. The experience was one that many athletes envied and the Canadian was able to enjoy it.

Kevin Owens was on WWE's After The Bell with Corey Graves podcast where he talked about the surreal experience against Stone Cold. The WWE star admits he has mostly peaked in his wrestling career.

“It’s all downhill from here really.” “And I say that with the most optimistic point of view I can have really, I mean that in a good way. It was really unbelievable, it’s still unbelievable. Sometimes I’ll have my moments where I’m not doing anything and I’m just sitting around, and I’ll pull it up on my phone and I’ll specifically watch the moment where the ref rings the bell. I still can’t believe it happened, it’s really hard to process what happened, it’s hard to put it into words.”

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Backstage at WrestleMania 38, Kevin Owens got to see Stone Cold Steve Austin getting ready. The WWE legend was very focused and the Canadian realized he was in for quite the experience.

“At one point, right before we went out, I caught a glimpse of him just pacing back and forth.” “He looked like a caged lion just ready to murder people, and I was like, oh man, this is going to be wild. It’s really all very surreal, it’s very hard to put into words, that’s so cliche when we talk about what we do. As I said, I get these moments where I just start reflecting on my career, and I was thinking how crazy it was when I started with Cena and how people around me were like, this is unbelievable.”

“The one I’ll always hear is that you outlive any expectations any of us ever had for you. Everyone knows if you look at me, I don’t fit the stereotypical WWE superstar, a lot of people thought [WWE] would never take two looks at me. I got signed, which people were surprised by, then I won the NXT title two months in. ‘What the hell’s going on?’”

“Then I show up on RAW and attack John Cena, now I’m wrestling Cena on a pay-per-view and I won. Then I won the Universal title, it just kept getting bigger and bigger, and then I beat the shit out of Vince McMahon on TV. Somehow, it keeps getting topped. But I don’t know what tops this…”