9 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Night Of Champions 2015
2. You Still Got It!
Fans unleashed this chant twice during the course of the night, bestowing it upon a returning Chris Jericho, and then a resurgent Sting. While Stings appearance was the focal point of Night of Champions, Y2J was the surprise third man to team with Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose against the Wyatt Family. The match was only Jerichos second televised contest of 2015, and his first PPV match since Night of Champions last September. However, he has been wrestling periodically on house shows, so hes been staying sharp recently. Jericho definitely showed he still can compete in the ring, and while its frustrating to see a six-time world champion lose in his return match its better for the part-timer to take the fall than the guy who has to be on television the next night and the next 100 nights after that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EI0qIlfaN4 The same could be said about Sting, who at 56 still delivered a pretty good match against Seth Rollins, even diving from the top rope to the floor, which drew the fans chant. Yes, he needed to be tended to by the ringside doctor just before the close of the match, but Sting held his own for the most part and finished the match, allowing Rollins to defend his WWE World Heavyweight Championship cleanly. And again, another example of the part-timer taking the fall to the guy who has to show up the next night.
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.
