A special kudos needs to be give aside from the show-stealing quality of the Dean Ambrose/Kevin Owens Intercontinental Championship match. Owens and Ambrose engaged in a Last Man Standing match, a stipulation that has yielded mixed results through the years. Its often designed to put a period (or an exclamation point) on a feud, ending the rivalry in dramatic fashion. But one of the biggest drawbacks to these types of matches is the fact that you have to have a ref counting to 10 multiple times throughout the bout, often reaching 8 or 9. This means that the action screeches to a halt, then picks up momentarily, only to stop again. But Owens and Ambrose went 100 MPH (or 160 KMH) from the opening bell, hitting vicious moves on each other, including: Owens cannonball through the timekeepers area; KO stabbing Ambrose with a broken kendo stick; Ambrose elbow dropping KO through a table; Owens hitting a fishermans suplex through a table; and of course, Ambrose shoving Owens off the top rope through a double stack of tables. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mhu631XliE All of that was vicious, crisp and fast-paced. It made for a high-octane Last Man Standing match rather than something that ground to a halt multiple times. And the fans ate it up from beginning to end.
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.
