Saturday Nights Main Events Cody Rhodes-Kevin Owens chaos leaves one burning WWE question
Saturday Night’s Main Event could end up marking a seminal moment in Cody Rhodes’ run in WWE. On this night, WWE’s purest babyface showed he might just not be who we think he is anymore.Rhodes used the steel chair Kevin Owens brought into the ring to retain his Undisputed WWE Universal championship in the main event as 14,186 fans watched at Nassau Coliseum on Saturday night in the return of the iconic franchise to NBC for the first time since 2008Is it the first sign of a heel coming out in Rhodes or just the champion taking advantage of the situation presented to him?It feels fitting after Rhodes did arguably the most babyface thing ever by making good on his pledge to bring the famed Winged Eagle belt back for the first time since it was retired with “Stone Cold” Steve Austin in 1998.Rhodes’ use of the chair and the chaos after the show went off the air — which was the best thing that happened all night — will propel this story and Owens’ belief that the champ is the bad friend and ego-driven person he’s been making him out to be. The match was the culmination of an overall quality night of wrestling — that wasn’t PLE level in major happenings — and a solid start for WWE’s five-year partnership with NBC Universal on the show that first debuted in 1985 on the network. Here are five takeaways from Saturday Night’s Main Event: Things between Rhodes and Owens are far from over and will only get more heated after what unfolded on Long Island.
Owens had the championship won, but he had knocked referee Charles Robinson out while countering a Cross Rhodes.So there was no one to count to three when he delivered a Stunner to Rhodes.
A second official raced down but not in time.That ref was also taken out, this time by Rhodes on a Cody Cutter that Owens ducked. A frustrated Owens threw Rhodes into the ring post and went to the outside and brought a chair into the ring.
Rhodes, who sold his injured angle early but went away from during ...