As mentioned earlier, Kevin Owens and Dean Ambrose deserve all the credit in the world for turning a Last Man Standing match into something truly special. The opening bout had fans rocking from bell to bell, and it helped make the Intercontinental Championship look like something that is desperately sought after. But in addition to the various moves detailed earlier, you have to take your hat off to a ton of little things that made this an awesome match: Owens sitting in a chair in the early going, putting his feet up; Ambrose throwing a chair at KO and then chopping him while he wore the chair around his neck; Owens yelling, I hate you! after Ambrose hit him with a chair, only for Dean to reply the same; and Michael Cole momentarily cheering for Ambrose after Owens took him out when tossed over the announce table. Little things can make a good match great. This already was a great match without these little things, making this a really fun, awesome match between two guys who really should be at the top of the card, headlining PPVs. Maybe someday soon
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.
