WWE Night of Champions

That's why they're okay not putting that title on Cody because they got Roman as champion.

And when you walk into, for example, Night of Champions or whatever ...

I'm sorry, Crown Jewel now.

Mm-hmm.

So maybe he does win it in Mexico at some point because obviously the hometown pop and the hometown hero winning is a huge deal and makes a lot of sense in terms of virality and emotion for the fans.

As you saw with Sami Zayn in Saudi Arabia and potentially Sami Zayn going back to Saudi Arabia to face Roman Reigns in Night of Champions.

But we'll discuss that at a later time, and so it is also a fact that Roman Reigns works so much better as a heel, I hope WWE maintains that no matter what they do with this 946 storyline, and so just a really good, really good match, also a really good match on the show was Chad Gable versus Dragon Lee, Chad Gable made Dragon Lee tap out to kind of the grapevine ankle lock after two incredible near falls by Dragon Lee.

Of course, they embraced.

I thought this was excellent, and of course I am going to give it an up.

I would've given it a golden up had Penta won, but at the same time, I don't mind Roman Reigns holding onto that belt, especially 'cause now if Sami Zayn holds onto his title, we can do that match at Night of Champions, which I'm very interested about from a Bloodline point of view.

So I gotta give that to WWE as well.

But honestly man, what a lovely, tremendous main event.

And given the show is in Saudi Arabia, Sami of course fits that bill.

Consider that he won the title there initially at Night of Champions.

Now he's possibly gonna fight Reigns in November and then maybe return as challenger next April for a WrestleMania 43.

WWE is clearly featuring Zayn as strongly as they can leading into that show to create what they surely hope will be an all-time moment.

Yep

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Sammy beat Cody Rhodes for the title at Night of Champions in Saudi Arabia.

Got a great reaction.

But is that just something that you threw that idea out there, they threw that idea? How did that come together?

So we're the tag champs at this time, right? And they decide, "Okay, we're gonna have this pay-per-view." I don't, I don't know if they'd done it like this before, where it was Night of Champions, right? So all the champions are gonna wrestle on that night.

I, I don't remember them doing it before.

It might've been the first time, I'm not sure.

He says, Penta came out during the Cena vs.

Punk match after Night of Champions 2025.

Seth already won Money in the Bank, and it was attempted cash-in, and Penta was involved with The Vision during that time.

Why the fuck don't I remember this? Where was I at?

And a very quick road back to the top for Sami Zayn.

Originally captured that title back at Night of Champions by defeating Cody Rhodes and Gunther in that three-way match, only for a returning CM Punk to take the championship from him.

Nine days later in Chicago on Raw, Sami Zayn subsequently became increasingly frustrated, stayed in the title picture.

He was denied another opportunity.