Kevin Owens deserves true WWE reward for doing everything right in Cody Rhodes feud
The Post’s Joseph Staszewski brings you around the world of professional wrestling in his weekly Post Match Angle.The Post Match Angle will return Jan.1.Kevin Owens is doing arguably the best work of his career and it’s a shame we may have to settle for him carrying around the Winged Eagle belt as the “true” Undisputed WWE Champion instead of the actual one. Owens is using all of his performance tools to perfection: From his social media rants, to promos from his hotel room or car, to his customized T-shirts for this storyline and making a compelling and logical case that Cody Rhodes is in some ways getting what he deserves when he attacked the champ after their match at “Saturday Night’s Main Event” last week. Rhodes has triggered Owens’ jealousy and now resentment by first pushing for him to take a championship match he didn’t feel comfortable with at Bash in Berlin, to now questioning if Owens would do what was needed to be done to beat him. Rhodes would not take no for an answer from Roman Reigns and teamed with Owens’ mortal enemy.
He then lied about the Original Tribal Chief asking for the partnership, which set Owens off. Owens even warned Rhodes early in the story that he only turns on people who give him reason to.(This does not excuse Owens’ character from using a banned pile driver on tag team partner Randy Orton for sticking up for Rhodes.)Owens can make the case he brought the chair into the ring during Main Event only to take the swing Rhodes believed he didn’t have in him.But then the babyface Rhodes showed he has it in him by stunningly and knowingly using it for a Cross Rhodes to win the match as ref Charles Robinson wasn’t even in the ring to count three.
Owens’ frustration of Rhodes getting away with cheating led to WWE doing the stretcher angle.He is now claiming on social media to be “your new, true WWE Champion.”At the very least, Owens is being used to lay the first pieces of a Rhodes’ heel turn by show...