While he believes WWE management wants to suppress him from another major title race, Sami Zayn beat the odds this week Friday night SmackDown when he and King Corbin won their tag team match to qualify for the Universal Championship Contender Match on Elimination Chamber
When he spoke to Kayla Braxton and Paul Heyman Talk Smack, Zayn radiated pure confidence that a title match with Reigns is destined for the Elimination Chamber, but he believes their game at the main event could go either way.
“Paul and I agree on many things,” began Sami Zayn. “I’m sure we have different opinions about what would happen if Sami Zayn and Roman Reigns compete for the Universal Championship. That’s fine. I really have a lot of respect for what Roman Reigns has become. All these things that I’m talking about, about following the corporate line and being the kind of poster boy and all that kind of thing. Man, I hate to say it, but that was Roman Reigns once. He was the golden goose, and he knew, you know, where his bread was buttered with butter, and he conjured the party line.
“But he eventually realized that the company is breading their butter with Roman Reigns. He realized he was their golden goose and started playing them instead of being played by them. So I respect that. I’m not going to sit here and come to the show and say, ‘Oh, if I go in the ring with the universal champion Roman Reigns, I’d plow through him.’ Man to man, head-to-head, on any given night, it could go either way. That’s what I think. But this is one step closer than I’ve come in a long, long, long time. “
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