10 HUGE WWE Royal Rumble 2022 Predictions You Need To Know
6. "I'm Sami Zayn, And Welcome To WWE"
The Jackass Forever/WWE promotional tie-in has been rather heroically elevated by Sami Zayn's willingness to give pretty much everything to the role as SmackDown's perpetual comic relief character.
If anything, the relationship should be more symbiotic than it actually is - the classic MTV show was peaking right around the time Vince McMahon very briefly had his own finger on the cultural (and counter-cultural) zeitgeist, and audiences for both shows have aged in such a way that their sensibilities haven't adjusted that much. Certainly not based on the rights fees WWE commands and movies the Jackass gang are still able to make.
And yet, the most amusing element of all of this remains Zayn's commitment to the bits. He's come a cropper of Knoxville in their television segments, but the Royal Rumble match will highlight if this is the end, or merely the beginning. The Rumble falls right as the film gets its global release, but the Jackass gang have been interested in WWE stuff before.
Might this yet lead to the second WrestleMania celebrity tie-in in a row for the former (and possibly future) Intercontinental Champion? A fat new contract suggests WWE keeping him busy with something on the 'Grandest Stage'.