[2015-05-31-WWE-Elimination Chamber] John Cena vs Kevin Owens

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WWE US Champion John Cena vs NXT Champion Kevin Owens - WWE Elimination Chamber 2015

I cant think a match I have more disdain for than this match. I thought it was terrible ten years ago and watching it back now. I think I hate it even more now. 

There were matches like this before this match, but you could argue this style made its debut in the WWE Main Event scene with the match. This match highlights everything that is the antithesis to emotionally moving professional wrestling. 

It emphasizes that WHAT at the expense of WHY and HOW. 

The WHAT is MOVEZ~! and lots of them. It is not quite as bad today's motion-smoothing wrestling where everybody is perpetual motion trying to get to the next spot. They did let things breathe and allow for WWE to show replays and let highspots sink in, BUT there was no rhyme or reason to the high spots. There were no sense of consequences. Neither wrestler was reacting to the other. It was pure My Turn, Your Turn wrestling. I was surprised to see a wrestler hit two moves in succession. My recollection was they literally traded off in the last ten minutes. The transitions were pathetic, which brings me to the how. It is comical how silly each one was just hopping out of the others move. The absolutely zero struggle. Where was the character work? It felt like two fucking robots out there having a match. 

The first ten minutes, which nobody remembers were pretty boring. John Cena always goes into heat way too early. He was overselling like crazy. After the second blow by KO you'd think you JIP'd 20 minutes into the match. Owens had a pretty tame heat segment. The trash talk was good. The rest was pedestrian at best. Cena's extended comeback which is impossible to fuck up was the best part of the match as Owens countered each move and Cena had to unlock the moves of the comeback was the only good part. Then last ten minutes we had every cliche, finisher spamming bullshit of the 21st Century. 

I understand pro wrestling is subjective and I can understand there is a new breed of fan that wants action at the expense of characters, logic and emotion, but even this new breed has to admit this finish sucked the big one. It was just Cena hitting a couple massive clotheslines and then Owens hits a Pop Up Powerbomb out of nowhere for the win. IT WAS NOT EVEN A GOOD FINISH?!?! Like cmon if you are going to do a big fireworks spectacle hit me with a Grand Finale not with that wet fart.