Kevin Owens vs. Apollo Crews Is A Great Feud Idea To Stretch Out Sami Zayn-Owens

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This past Monday night, Apollo Crews defeated another member of the Social Outcasts in the second-to-last segment of the show. That’s a problem unto itself since that slot has long been used as the ’cool down’ before the main event. The crowd is tired and putting someone in that spot who isn’t particularly important allows them to mellow out and relax until the stuff worthy of their attention returns.

That is really the wrong place to put Crews, but hopefully now that he has run the Social Outcast gamut, he can move on to something more substantial. The good thing about the card placement this week is that it allowed Kevin Owens to disrespect Crews by making his entrance for the main event before Crews left the arena, ignoring him as he walked past. Crews is not here to be ignored.

Scenario: Owens and Sami Zayn get far too violent at Payback next Sunday. The match is thrown out with no conclusive winner. After the two men cause chaos and disrupt the show every week on RAW and Smackdown (Owens gets the upper hand more than Zayn, but it isn’t just a total beating every time), it is decided that they are not allowed to touch each other until further notice. Something like the Triple HStone Cold Steve Austin feud. The one where Triple H only partially signed the contract before beating down Austin one more time and then signing. Man, that was great.

Owens takes his frustrations out on Crews, who is involved in the pull apart brawls, and these two go at it until the restriction is finally lifted for SummerSlam and the Zayn/Owens match happens for real. Crews should win a PPV match, because Owens is so obsessed with Zayn that it takes him off his game the longer he is unable to interact with his mortal enemy. It actually works better to have Owens win their first match (say, at Extreme Rules?) and then lose a rematch the next month at Battleground. It’s 50-50 booking in a way that makes Crews look more legitimate by taking Owens to his limit once and beating him once, even if Owens had his mind on something else.

The matches would be great and would at the same time serve as the plot device that allows Zayn and Owens to clash in Brooklyn on the big stage they deserve to have.

I fear that Zayn vs. Owens is going to wind up being a Hell In A Cell match this year on the eponymous show, and I hope they don’t go that direction. It’s played out and even feels forced when the feud has a legitimate reason to end up with two men inside the cage. Can WWE please discontinue that show?

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