Kevin Owens and John Cena hand Roman Reigns only his second loss of the year following gruesome match with The Bloodline

By Sunil Joseph

Modified Dec 31, 2022 03:21 GMT

Kevin Owens and John Cena teamed together for the first time

Kevin Owens and the returning John Cena defeated Roman Reigns and Sami Zayn tonight on SmackDown.

A couple of weeks ago on the blue brand, Roman Reigns challenged Kevin Owens to a tag team match where the latter could pick any teammate he wanted. Later on in the night, John Cena revealed himself as Owens' tag partner.

This would also mark Cena's first match of the year. The tag match was gruesome to say the least. While Reigns and Zayn struggled out of the gate, Owens and Cena had no problems whatsoever.

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Sami was the odd one in this match who just couldn't mount any offense when given the opportunity. This also seemed to upset Reigns, who probably felt that he had to do all the work in the match.

After much anticipation, Cena was finally tagged in and he came in and hit a couple of shoulder tackles to Zayn. This was followed by an AA for Reigns while Kevin Owens hit a stunner to Sami for the win.

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This is Roman Reigns' second loss of the year and it certainly won't make the Tribal Chief happy either. His first loss of the year came against Seth Rollins via disqualification at Royal Rumble 2022 earlier this year. We will have to wait until next week to see how he addresses this loss.

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Sunil is a pro wrestling journalist, covering AEW and WWE news stories at Sportskeeda. He holds an MBA degree in Marketing, and has nearly 7 years of experience. A wrestling aficionado since childhood, Sunil used to imitate his favorite wrestlers as a young kid, and started writing professionally about the sport via Sportskeeda’s revenue-sharing opportunity.

Sunil admires former world champions AJ Styles, Will Ospreay, and Kenny Omega for their ability to consistently deliver great matches as well as entertain crowds with their mic skills.

If ever given a chance to change a storyline, Sunil would have booked Roman Reigns to end The Undertaker’s WrestleMania streak instead of Brock Lesnar. According to him, The Tribal Chief needed the victory more than Brock Lesnar, as the latter was already an established performer when he defeated ‘Taker. He would’ve also made that as Taker’s final match.

Always focused on making his work accurate and reliable, Sunil thoroughly checks his facts before writing his articles. When not writing for pro wrestling, he spends his time watching cricket.

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Edited by Ashvinkumar Patil