9 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (April 25)

2. Heat Via The Wayback Machine

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In the Burning Questions column, the question was posed about how Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens would turn up the heat in their feud. The duo managed to do exactly that by doing something suggested a while back: WWE ran a video package tracing their history together as friends on the independent circuit, right up through NXT and to the present.

It was a beautifully done package, starting with their first WWE encounter at the Royal Rumble and then jumping back 15 years. The video detailed how Sami won the NXT Championship when Owens debuted, which hurt KO (he won the title first), and then came back to the present. Owens made himself out to be a victim because his beef was business, but Zayn has made it personal. That€™s a pretty brazen statement, right in line with his character.

If you haven€™t watched NXT or heard much about Sami and KO€™s rivalry, then watch this package as a primer. It should bring things into focus nicely.

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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.