Kevin Owens Brutally Attacks Cody Rhodes After WWE Saturday Night's Main Event

KO didn't take losing too well, breaking out another banned move to send Cody to the hospital.

by Scott Carlson
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If you simply watched Saturday Night's Main Event, you saw Cody Rhodes successfully defend his Undisputed WWE Championship against Kevin Owens, albeit in somewhat controversial fashion.

Two referee bumps and a steel chair factored into the decision, with Cody retaining his world title and holding the Winged Eagle belt aloft as the network program went off the air. But moments later on social media, video surfaced of Owens not taking the loss too kindly, attacking Rhodes and incapacitating him with a package piledriver:

KO would "celebrate" with the world title, at one point standing on top of a stretchered Cody and holding the belt up for fans to rain down boos. Another video showed Owens getting into a shoving match at the entrance with Triple H, who had left gorilla to address the chaos in the arena. Rhodes would be loaded into an ambulance and rushed off to a hospital, while Owens presumably left with the Winged Eagle title.

This is the second former ally Owens has put in a neck brace with a banned move, having sidelined Randy Orton with a piledriver on SmackDown last month.

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The decision to not air this white-hot angle at the end of Saturday Night's Main Event and instead relegate it to social media was an odd choice. If WWE wasn't going to book any title changes on the first SNME in 16 years, they could have closed with this angle to really convince future viewers that this is a can't-miss show. The clips still would have done huge numbers on social media.

It's safe to say that the rivalry between Rhodes and Owens is far from over, nor has it come close to peaking.

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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.