WWE presented their Elimination Chamber Pay-Per-View event yesterday, Saturday, February 18th, in Montreal at the Bell Centre. The event started at 5 pm (PST).
One of WWE’s most-watched PPVs had hometown hero, Sami Zayn in its main event against champion Roman Reigns, who has held the championship for 900+ days.
When Zayn’s music hit, the crowd erupted, singing along to his theme song in what was Zayn’s biggest match in WWE thus far. For as long as I have watched Zayn in the WWE, I have always seen him being wasted on the roster, as he is immensely talented in the ring and on the microphone. WWE was wasting his talent, only until he joined in on Romain Reigns’ group called “The Bloodline”. What originally started off as a bit of a comedic role in the group, resulted in Zayn getting extremely over with the fans, something the company hasn’t seen since the Daniel Bryan days back in 2014.
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It almost seems like Deja Vu for the company that happened back in 2014 like I just mentioned. In 2014, Batista made his return to WWE in what was supposed to be an exciting return. WWE’s plan was to make him win the Royal Rumble and then the WWE championship at WrestleMania. However, those plans had to be scrapped immediately, as the fans hated Batista getting shoved down their throats and had to make Daniel Bryan get into the main event of WrestleMania to win the WWE championship, which resulted in Batista’s “big return” looking nothing more than a joke.
This year, top wrestler across the world, Cody Rhodes, made his return to WWE and won the Royal Rumble in what was an extremely expected result. Everyone can see the writing on the wall of him defeating Roman Reigns for the WWE championship. However, now that Zayn has become WWE’s most popular superstar, it seems the plans might change… sound familiar?
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What WWE plans to do next is anyone’s call, as it’s extremely difficult to tell if WWE will stay true to Cody Rhodes and give him the WWE championship (which was likely the only reason why he returned to the company in the first place), give Zayn the championship which would please the fans the most, or continue to have Roman dominate the company and hold the championship for even more days to count.
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Even though Zayn lost in what was a classic, storytelling main event, people will never forget the storyline heading into this matchup, and fans of Zayn shouldn’t lose hope that the major championship might still end up on his shoulders.