WWE Royal Rumble 2023: Predicting All 15 Wrestlers Not Yet Announced

14. Sami Zayn

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The idea - and it's a great one - is that the babyface within Sami Zayn is surfacing. Gradually.

He is rediscovering his agency, his balls - and in the process, strengthening his bond with the audience - but the Bloodline perceive it as sabotage. He's getting ideas above his station.

The tension is escalating to a level that cannot subside, and to maintain this push and pull, Sami Zayn should enter a crowd-pleasing iron man performance on the night before being eliminated in heartbreaking fashion. He sells total devastation. To drive the story forward, Roman on the following SmackDown should ask Sami why he's so gutted.

Did he want to fight the Tribal Chief?

 
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