Kevin Owens Retains Universal Championship At Clash of Champions

Despite the obvious outcome, this was still one hell of a match.

Kevin Owen's alignment with Chris Jericho has proved to be beneficial over the course of the past few months, as it was the added element of Y2J that helped Owens get the pinfall and retain the title.

Owens has proven once again that he's one of the best heels in the company, if not one of the best heels of all time. His proclamation to Seth midway through the match is a testament of the man's mic skills and cleverness. "You're the Architect? You don't even have a foundation!"

The WWE Universal Champion also pulled out some unseen moves before like a Dean Malenko-style Gutbuster on Rollins that put the challenger down. Both men got an even amount of offense on one another, but it was all over when Rollins knocked out the referee and Stephanie McMahon had to summon another one just in time for Seth to take a Pop Up Powerbomb and take the pinfall loss.

Rollins is on the verge of a full face turn, which is an interesting choice, but the story also here is can he trust Stephanie? That's going to be an uneasy alliance for sure.