Its almost a foregone conclusion that Intercontinental Champion Kevin Owens and United States Champion Alberto Del Rio will come up short in their tournament semifinal matches against Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns, respectively. And while fans can argue whether it was shortsighted to have both secondary title holders in the semifinals of a tournament they arent going to win, there still is a pressing question: How will both men appear in the match? We know Reigns will topple Del Rio, but will he barely survive a lengthy cross-armbreaker to move on, or just spear Alberto right out of his boots? And how strong will Owens look in his match against Ambrose? Will he beat Dean from pillar to post, only for the resilient Lunatic Fringe to pull it off in the end? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzqmnumPS-A Losing in the semifinals is not what you want from your secondary champs, but theres a difference between an evenly matched bout and a straight-up rout. Itll be interesting to see how things unfold in these two matches.
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.
