7 Reasons WWE Payback Will Be The Dawn Of A New Era

3. Kevin Owens Vs. Sami Zayn

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I'm not entirely sure how, but regardless of how many times Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn fight it always feels fresh and exciting. Theirs will go down as one of the greatest rivalries in professional wrestling history, a rivalry indicative of this modern age of increased knowledge and awareness of non-WWE wrestling.

They have battled from the ground up, their careers following each others from Quebec all the way to the WWE. They squared off in NXT, where Owens got the better of Zayn. The fight made its way to the main roster and a multi-man ladder match at WrestleMania, where Zayn became the last man to touch Kevin Owens as Intercontinental Champion.

Payback will be their first one-on-one match at the top table of professional wrestling. These two men are the present and the future of WWE, so do not be surprised to see this match plenty of times at different spots on the card in years to come.

A future WrestleMania main event? Time will tell...

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.