The post-match angle for this match saw Randy Orton make his return to WWE after being taken out by Kevin Owens with a Package Piledriver, establishing an eventual showdown at WrestleMania 41, but that never happened. As an alternative, two weeks before WrestleMania, Owens announced that he needed to step away from wrestling to be able to have neck surgery, something he had been pushing aside for a while, and he has not been back within the ring since.
I do not think I’m alone in saying that it could be amazing to see Owens back in a WWE ring within the near future, and if the neck surgery has put the remaining of his profession on a shortened timer then it could be great to see him do all the things he desires to do within the business before he hangs his boots up. Having said that, I also don’t think I’m alone in saying that this match with Sami Zayn is essentially the most fitting way Owens could end his profession.
Owens and Zayn have principally been linked for the reason that start of their careers. In the event you consider one, you routinely consider the opposite, it’s that easy. They’ve shared the ring lots of and lots of of times since they first crossed paths on the Quebec indie circuit in 2003, and while they may disagree with this sentiment in case you told them this, Owens and Zayn are arguably the 2 best Canadian exports with no relation to the Hart family. To have their story, their journey as friends, foes, blood brothers, borderline life partners, to have that end against each other in the most important possible venue of their home country, and for it to be the most effective matches of that exact yr, it doesn’t really get any higher than that.
The Rogers Centre, or the SkyDome, has hosted two WrestleManias, but this was a match that probably felt just like the fundamental event of a WrestleMania to Owens and Zayn. Them slamming one another right into a barbed wire chair in the identical constructing that The Ultimate Warrior won the WWE Championship from Hulk Hogan, the identical constructing where Hulkamania ran wild over again against The Rock is the form of stuff that puts a smile in your face because you already know back in 2003, they never dreamed their story could reach this level.
Sometimes you simply have to know when to walk away, and yes, I actually do wish to see Owens wrestle again, as do many others. But this match is nearly as good of a final match setting as Owens will ever get in his profession. The one thing that might possibly top it’s in the event that they headlined WrestleMania against one another in Montreal but I do not see that occuring unfortunately. I do not know if this was the ultimate chapter of Kevin Owens’ profession, but when it was, what an ending.