8 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 36 (Part 1)

2. KO Gets His WrestleMania Moment

Kevin Owens Seth Rollins
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After months of being Seth Rollins’ punching bag, Kevin Owens finally got retribution Saturday night, defeating the Monday Night Messiah decisively.

KO absorbed a bunch of punishment from Rollins, who hit a Falcon Arrow on the apron and battered Owens. But KO dished out plenty of offense himself, reversing a Stomp into a Pop-up Powerbomb as well as hitting a Swanton Bomb.

It looked like Rollins had taken the easy way out by using the ringbell for a DQ, but Owens insisted they restart the match as a no-DQ contest, which led to Rollins using the steps and a chair on KO. Owens counted with the ringbell, and then climbed the WrestleMania sign and dropped an elbow on Rollins through the announce desk before hitting the Stunner for the win.

The end part was tacked on, and it might have been better to just be a no-DQ match for the entire time, but you can’t say that Owens’ dive wasn’t memorable as hell, as it’s gotta be the first time someone’s jumped off those obscenely large Mania signs.

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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.