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Post by Stu on Apr 3, 2022 11:24:01 GMT -5
Does anyone have a gif of Austin and Owens riding the ATV up the ramp?
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Apr 3, 2022 11:24:06 GMT -5
Kevin Owens must be the happiest dude in the world now. He's got that recently signed new deal. He's got a beautiful family. He's got a main event against Austin at a Wrestlemania. Anything else he does from now on, maybe Tag Titles with Zayn, is gravy for this man. I'd still love him to win the WWE title once.
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Post by oxbaker on Apr 3, 2022 11:42:54 GMT -5
Just hit me: didn’t Kevin choose the name Owens when he changed it from Steen in moving to WWE as a tribute to Owen Hart?
Then he gets (presumably) Austin’s last match.
Full circle sort of.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Apr 3, 2022 11:43:06 GMT -5
Also Owens has quietly built himself a nice Wrestlemania resume. 2022 - Main events with Steve Austin who he grew up idolizing 2021- Faces his best friend Sami Zayn then gets massive pop for stunning Logan Paul 2020 - Beats Seth Rollins in one of the best matches on the card 2019 - Injured 2018 - Daniel Bryan’s return match after 3 years 2017 - Wins the US title from Chris Jericho 2016 - Wrestlemania debut in MITB He wasn't even injured in 2019, he just... Wasn't booked for some reason. He was a regular on TV around then, I guess just with the Bryan / Kofi thing they didn't feel like coming up with something else for him to do and saw the Andre as beneath him. That was so weird. He re debuted as a babyface but they booked him with heel tropes
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Apr 3, 2022 11:46:29 GMT -5
He wasn't even injured in 2019, he just... Wasn't booked for some reason. He was a regular on TV around then, I guess just with the Bryan / Kofi thing they didn't feel like coming up with something else for him to do and saw the Andre as beneath him. That was so weird. He re debuted as a babyface but they booked him with heel tropes Wasn’t he the guy pencilled in for the WM title shot against Bryan before Kingston caught fire?
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Post by Stu on Apr 3, 2022 11:46:39 GMT -5
Also Owens has quietly built himself a nice Wrestlemania resume. 2022 - Main events with Steve Austin who he grew up idolizing 2021- Faces his best friend Sami Zayn then gets massive pop for stunning Logan Paul 2020 - Beats Seth Rollins in one of the best matches on the card 2019 - Injured 2018 - Daniel Bryan’s return match after 3 years 2017 - Wins the US title from Chris Jericho 2016 - Wrestlemania debut in MITB Announcers: Cody Rhodes has been gone for six years!!!! *Looks at above Yeah, we know where this may end up
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Apr 3, 2022 11:56:42 GMT -5
Austin/Owens was everything good about WWE. Was it a five star match? F*** no, but it hit all the necessary emotional buttons to make it a damn entertaining 20 min. Probably won’t end up being my favourite match ever, but it’s absolutely gonna be one of the most memorable
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Post by Ryushinku on Apr 3, 2022 13:12:45 GMT -5
Quite incredible that the more beer Austin drank, the better he got. That suplex on the concrete and all that beer seemed to tip his body over from "Okay, Steve, let's remember to take it a little easy out there" to "OH HELL YEAH GIMME ANOTHER GONNA BUMP SPLAT ON MY BACK COMING OVER THIS BARRICADE AND THROW SOME HAYMAKERS AT THIS SUMMBITCH". I grant you, waking up today his entire thought process is probably ARRGH ARRGH ARRRRRGH but for enough time last night, dude was feeling it again.
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Post by Some Baritone guy IS REDEEMED! on Apr 3, 2022 13:42:54 GMT -5
Like I said this wasn't a classic, but it is among the most memorable Wrestlemania main events of my life time. Kevin Owens was the perfect opponent for this match, e's a good brawler and a great seller, who can work the crowd well enough to carry a very limited at this point Stone Cold to a damn fine match. Kudos to Austin as well for being willing to take a concrete bump at his age. This was a rare match that felt truly special in WWE.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 3, 2022 14:15:30 GMT -5
Just hit me: didn’t Kevin choose the name Owens when he changed it from Steen in moving to WWE as a tribute to Owen Hart? Then he gets (presumably) Austin’s last match. Full circle sort of. well technically he took Owens as a tribute to his son Owen. but I think he named his son after Hart.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 3, 2022 14:22:15 GMT -5
I can’t believe it went on that long and it was that good. Was expecting Austin to just hit the stunner and get the win in 5 seconds. I loved it. I said in the Mania thread... when they got face to face and were shit talking each other I fully expected kick to the gut - stunner - pin. I was pleasantly surprised they gave them an actual match. Even if again Austin didn't hit like his signatures... the Press and the flip off knee drop... since... I'm pretty sure if Austin did either of those he wouldn't have had knees any more >_>
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Apr 3, 2022 15:05:59 GMT -5
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Post by Legion on Apr 3, 2022 15:25:40 GMT -5
A perfect stand alone moment, though now I'm worried they might try and milk it for what it's worth and try and get Austin back for more Don't act like Vince wouldn't try and put the belt on Steve in 2022, oh he absolutely would lmfao To be honest, if Austin can have a couple more matches, putting the title on him and then having someone beat him would make that person. It wouldn't be the worst thing they could do, and crowds would absolutely lap it up. Granted they'd probably just waste it running back a match with Lesnar or feeding him to Roman, but still, if they did it right, it could make someone.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Apr 3, 2022 15:38:58 GMT -5
I can’t believe it went on that long and it was that good. Was expecting Austin to just hit the stunner and get the win in 5 seconds. I loved it. I said in the Mania thread... when they got face to face and were shit talking each other I fully expected kick to the gut - stunner - pin. I was pleasantly surprised they gave them an actual match. Even if again Austin didn't hit like his signatures... the Press and the flip off knee drop... since... I'm pretty sure if Austin did either of those he wouldn't have had knees any more >_> I was pleasantly surprised KO got offense in and even hit his Stunner on Austin first.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2022 15:45:53 GMT -5
I can only imagine how Austin is gonna sit down at his home and watch this match over and critique himself and come to the conclusion being his own harshist critic that he looked like shit.
Even if he the adrenaline and dopamine from that energy wants to tell him yes we can get another out of this body that moment he watches it back IMO is gonna tell him no more.
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Post by rocket on Apr 3, 2022 15:58:08 GMT -5
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Apr 3, 2022 16:37:08 GMT -5
I’ll tell you what, I’ll appreciate even more of going forward Kevin Owens never uses his Stunner ever again.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2022 16:37:46 GMT -5
I get so hot and cold on KO, but by all accounts he's a great dude in real life so I was very happy to see his dream finally come true last night.
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Post by thirteen3 on Apr 3, 2022 16:44:04 GMT -5
Kevin Steen has main evented Wrestlemania.
I'll never get over how this one guy who struggled to get booked by Ring of Honor in 2005 has had the last match on the biggest show of the year.
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Post by krozor on Apr 3, 2022 16:46:32 GMT -5
That was the best part. The first minute or two he was moving pretty gingerly and I thought this could be rough but the longer it went he looked better and better. It’s like the beer was kayfabe giving him energy. And him using the ATV to transport Owens up the ramp was amazing. Maybe no wrestler ever has combined being funny and badass better than Austin. Austin’s comedic sense has always been second to none in wrestling. It’s seems these days Wrestling is often either super serious or super silly. Austin has a good way of being funny without losing his edge. Very true. He was funny as the psycho heel Austin before the face turn drowning random guys in kiddie pools, and even as a face, he rarely lost the plot on how his character was still that hair-trigger guy underneath. During the second heel run, he found an incredible seam of doing all those legit funny comedy bits with Angle and the Alliance without losing sight of how it's all cover for a guy having a slow-burn nervous breakdown about maybe having been surpassed as the top guy. Looking back on at the peak of the pre-WM17 build, the famous beer toast segment with The Rock, there's this amazing moment where - after he smashes the can into Rock and spills it on him and Rock cuts him off from drinking and spills his beer back - Austin turns around and has this beat of perfectly-timed physical comedy: beer is dripping off his beard and he gives Rock this look of "Hey, man, why'd you do that?!" when he knows FULL WELL that Rock is just doing it back to him. And at the same time, if you look at his eyes, there it is: Austin is a shark in a human being suit, just like he was when he snapped on Pillman. There's a monster under there waiting that's been waiting to come back out, and it's so clear in retrospect he's about to turn heel, but he does it all hidden in plain sight because he knows how to do that comedy/serious thing so well. Anyway, I loved this. Loved it for Owens, who earned this after being so consistently great in WWE and yet still used so weirdly (getting the rug pulled out after his win on Cena, Vince's weird backstage reaction after his Jericho match where Owens had clearly been the best guy in the company for months, getting repeatedly humiliated by Strowman for unknown reasons with no payoff, coming back with a great fightin' dad face gimmick only to immediately turn heel). Loved it for Austin, a guy who whenever he talks about wrestling, you can hear that he loves it, loves all of it, loves it as much as he did as a kid. I hope this is it. He came back, scratched that itch for a guy he clearly loves, and not only didn't embarrass himself, he created a genuinely memorable spot that turned the clock back for him and most of us. But on the other hand, I just came up with another no-holds-barred spot I want to see him do (Austin is trapped in a hold, can't escape, holds his hand up and either a beer flies perfectly into his hand that he uses to escape or he holds out his hand and beers just keep flying into the ring and smashing his opponent) so actually he should do one more match for me and do this spot, thanks Steve, I love you.
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