Although he believes that WWE management wants to suppress him from having another big title run, Sami Zayn beat the odds this week on
Friday Night SmackDown when he and King Corbin won their tag team match to qualify for the Universal Championship Contender Match at
Elimination Chamber.
When he spoke with Kayla Braxton and Paul Heyman on
Talking Smack, Zayn oozed sheer confidence that a title match with Reigns is destined to happen at the
Elimination Chamber, but he believes their main event match could go either way.
“Paul and I tend to agree on a lot of things,” Sami Zayn began. “I’m sure we have differing opinions on what would happen if Sami Zayn and Roman Reigns faced off for the Universal Championship. That’s fine. I have a lot of respect for what Roman Reigns has become, really. All this stuff I talk about, about toeing the company line and being the sort of corporate poster boy and all of that stuff. Man, I hate to say it, but that was Roman Reigns once u