The Canadian Brute can be saved?

Kevin Owens can't be saved because there isn't anything to save him from. He's not "buried" or "ruined" like people have been claiming. Dude kicked out of an AA from the top rope, which I think has been forgotten about because of the finish.

Should he have gone over last night? Yes, but this doesn't mean his career is doomed to fail. Let's all just wait it out and see what happens.

Right now, all I see is a man who had a fluke victory over Cena.

Sorry, I don't see this Kevin Steene Guy. I see a man who failed to make it in the big leagues, and lost it all when he gambled to make a name for himself. So, yes, I think he's kind of buried right now. Put him a track suit, give him Ernest Miller's old music, and have him team up with Jason Albert as Tons of Funk 2--Cena Buried Two. If WWE doesn't give KO the win at this point, to quote Bobby Rude, that victory was a FLUKE.

I think there will be one more match at SummerSlam, possibly something gimmicky.

nope. He lost a wrestling match. If you lose it means you've been buried and you can't come back. If you don't win every single match then you're ed.

How many times were Punk or Bryan put down in a feud with a major player before making it to the top?

Don't forget that just two months before Daniel Bryan won the World Championship in the main event of WrestleMania, he was wearing a boiler suit as a member of the Wyatt Family.

They tried so hard to put him down but he just kept bobbing back up.

Punk was saddled with the New Nexus, had his head shaved by Rey Mysterio, lost his WWE Championship after a month during his hottest period, didn't get a rematch and was instead defeated clean by Triple H in his next PPV, that year at WrestleMania he had also lost to Orton in a match which did nothing for Orton but would have been a push in the right direction for Punk.

Owens will be another Danielson/Punk personality where the fans will drag him into the main event if they have to.

However, there is one crucial difference between Owens and those two guys: he's one of Triple H's guys. Triple H, who's in charge of creative and talent development. He's one of the NXT 5, and Triple H needs some of the guys to come out of NXT and become success stories. He's achieving that with Rollins at the moment, but you just know that Owens, Neville, Balor and Zayne will all be bubbling away to be next in line to become a made man. The Reigns, Dallas, Cesaro etc crop of talent may have come through WWE developmental, but they weren't Triple H's chosen boys.

It's a different time now.

I still don't know why everyone thinks this was the worst booking ever. Theres clearly going to be one more match at Summerslam and I think that Cesaro will make it a triple threat and KO will pin Cesaro leading to a fued between those two and leaving Cena to move on from the US title to do other things. I think its crazy to think that someone losing a 20 minute match to the face of a company as a rookie after kicking out of his finisher about 5 or 6 times is equal him being buried.

This is different than Rusev or Wyatt (who also lost to Cena despite having Rowen and Harper helping him) or all the other monsters Cena has conquered. KO has been truly built up in this fued as someone who any fan now sees as legit and if he wins the US title at Summerslam as I predict I believe he'll have a long and very enjoyable run with the title, where he'll lose to sami Zayn at Wrestlmania (I can dream).

Booking him to lose at Battleground was a horrible idea
Owens losing back/back/back in Japan, Battleground, and NXT Brooklyn makes him look weak whichever way you put it. Not like he can even weasel out of NXT Brooklyn because it's a broadcasted main event title match and likely his last NXT match; meaning interference can't happen because Owens can't have another feud. Breeze or Joe could interfere and take down Balor but it would tarnish Owen's track record even further.

So basically he still won't go over Cena.

Looks like a fluke to me.