How many one-on-one ladder matches do you think there have been in WWE history? Dozens? Just when you think youve seen everything in a match, Kevin Owens and Finn Balor came along Saturday night and managed to deliver a fresh matchup with innovative spots. Instead of relying on the ladder for the bulk of the match, neither man was able to get his hands on a ladder until several minutes into the match, and even then the ladders only factored into a portion of the match, avoiding the cliché of multiple slow climbs up the ladder. Balor channeled his inner Jeff Hardy, hitting a Coup de Grace from the top of the ladder onto a prone Owens. That turned out to be enough to KO Owens and allow Finn to retrieve the title. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KEljbjxBHw Like the co-main event, this match easily could be dropped onto Sundays SummerSlam broadcast and it wouldnt look one bit out of place. Thats a very good sign for the future.
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.
