The One Thing EVERYONE Is Getting Wrong About Sami Zayn

Sami Zayn Vs Roman Reigns as a story was ultimately the headline issue at two of the WWE's Big Four Premium Live Events, and was the engineered to elevate one outside of that upper echelon to being the biggest domestic B-Show in at least a decade.

Survivor Series: WarGames was carried by the drama unfolding between the two sides and indeed the tension within The Bloodline. Between the double cage extravaganza and Sami becoming the "Honorary Uce", yet another iconic in-ring with Roman and the gang spawned the "Ucey" catchphrase and possibly the funniest ever wrestlers-corpsing scenes in industry history. A truly ingenious slab of television, the same segment that showed the warmth Sami had brought to the ice cold stable also featured Jey Uso briefly braving that he "didn't give a damn about 'The Tribal Chief' for the first time.

When Roman stared suspiciously at Sami as WarGames concluded, he did so because he realised that the paradigm had shifted. Zayn worked to impress Jey, not him. It was the clearest sign yet that the power had shifted beneath him, and the legendary conclusion to the Royal Rumble main event with 'The Head Of The Table' and Kevin Owens was Roman's last attempt to wrestle back control from the two people he knew were drifting.

Weeks out from WrestleMania, and he's failed to do that. Zayn's out, Jey's status hangs tantalisingly in the balance, and the events of Elimination Chamber were needed to get all the key characters to this crucial final stage. To not - ahem - acknowledge the care and planning that went into laying that out in line with Cody Rhodes' Royal Rumble return is an act of bad faith.

Or an act of those pulled back in by a short story when the rest of the fanbase have been engrossed by the longer one. Over and over again, it's been both, and it's why it belongs in the conversation with other all-time greats.

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