WWE Royal Rumble 2023: Predicting All 30 Entrants

29. Chad Gable - #2

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The idea here is to build Sami, strongly, as the babyface - and working a brisk and dynamic 90 seconds or so with Chad Gable is an ideal means of achieving that.

Gable is a tremendous prelim heel - he's better than that, but also great at the role - and their exchanges will immediately convey to the audience that Zayn is the man they are to get behind. They're already behind him. Zayn might well be the most over man in the company at this point. But a further hint, articulated by some liquid professional wrestling, won't hurt that messaging one iota.

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