Heels cheat. Its a simple statement that should be as true as, The sun rises in the east. If youre bad guy in wrestling and you arent taking the occasional shortcut, you arent doing your job right. (Hell, even the Undertaker has resorted to repeated low blows to get the upper hand in his feud with Brock Lesnar.) So it shouldnt have been looked down upon when Kevin Owens used an eye rake to escape Rybacks Shellshocked at Night of Champions last month. But since then, Owens has used the gouge to win other matches, making it his calling card of sorts. And while that kinda fits his persona, it would be nice to see him win without resorting to it, especially if this rematch is supposed to end the feud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wd8urMGE_Y Besides, when was an eye rake itself a finishing move? Maybe if it set up a Pop-Up Powerbomb, that would be different. And after hitting the Pop-Up Powerbomb on Mark Henry last week, getting the Big Guy up for the move seems pretty easy by comparison.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
