8 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Dec 5)

2. Bringing The Goods

Sami Zayn Kevin Owens
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Despite the criticism leveled earlier for pitting Kevin Owens against Sami Zayn in a one-off Raw match, you have to give credit to both men for putting in a hell of an effort on Monday.

Owens and Zayn started with a pretty typical match: brawl to start, spill outside and hit a couple quick highspots to get things going. But things kicked into high gear after a commercial break, with Zayn going berserk with tornado DDTs and half-and-half suplexes, while Owens countered with cannonballs and a fisherman buster from the middle rope. Zayn looked like he had the upper hand after a couple Exploder suplexes and a Blue Thunder Bomb, but he walked into a Pop-Up Powerbomb for a KO victory.

The defeat certainly hurt any chance for momentum for Sami, but it was clear that Owens needed a hard-fought win after losing to Roman Reigns last week and getting punked by Big Show and Seth Rollins earlier.

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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.