6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Payback 2016

2. The KO Show

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If you€™re a fan of Kevin Owens, then you had to love everything about the second and third matches €“ and especially the aftermath of the third bout.

After winning his match against Sami Zayn, Owens joined the commentary team to the Intercontinental Championship match and proceeded to torment Michael Cole and berate Byron Saxton, all while talking about how he could beat whichever man emerged with the title. When things broke down €“ thanks in large part to Zayn and Owens fighting at ringside €“ KO would enter the ring and clean house, standing tall at the end with the IC title.

Owens dominated those two segments and came across clearly as a star. Now, if only WWE could book him consistently like that going forward

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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.