12 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Clash Of Champions 2019

4. KO Cowers To Shane

Just a quick mention here since it was recapped during the PPV and this writer doesn’t cover SmackDown…

What on God’s green Earth is WWE doing with Kevin Owens? He was getting fans behind him by standing up to Shane McMahon, stunning everyone who helped the commissioner and tormented him. Then he gets fined and starts groveling to Shane. Then he gets made special referee for a match against Chad Gable and is biased toward McMahon.

Seriously, what are fans supposed to do? How do you cheer a guy? Remember when “Stone Cold” Steve Austin gave in to Vince McMahon because of his threats to fire him? It got him over to the next level… oh wait. The opposite happened. Because cowering to an authority figure makes you look like an impotent goof.

If the goal was to fire Owens regardless, then why not have KO stand up for himself in the process, rather than look like a neutered loser?

But hey, gotta keep those McMahons strong, right?

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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.