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#1 Sami Zayn beats Kevin Owens to earn a WWE Title shot

zayn owens — Sami Zayn will battle Kevin Owens next week for a shot at the WWE Championship

With the wheels in motion for a complete split between Owens and Zayn, which is rumored to be leading to a contest between the two men at WrestleMania, I think it makes sense that Sami Zayn will win the title shot to face AJ Styles at Fastlane.

It will drive Owens even crazier, and sooner than later he’ll attack Sami just like he did Chris Jericho. Sami will realize that just like he did in the past, he let Kevin Owens get into his head and make him think they were friends again, but he was just being used by Owens to try to get himself back into the WWE Title picture.

Zayn will go back to being a great sympathetic babyface, hopefully with a higher profile than he had before.

I think Sami will beat Kevin at WrestleMania, too, and at the Payback PPV in May, we could see a rematch from Takeover: Dallas, except instead of being Sami’s NXT farewell and Nakamura’s NXT debut, it would be for the WWE Championship.

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I got my first big break writing for 411Mania back in 2004. I did a small spot in a big weekly piece that was written by one of the site's top writers. I quickly added the duty of being the live recapper for episodes of SmackDown, and in 2005 was given my own weekly column, which I did for a few years. I gave up writing (mostly) to start a family but got back into it, still at 411, a little over 3 years later. For another couple of years, I wrote 2-3 columns per week for the website before finding paid work elsewhere, and eventually wound up at SportsKeeda.

I am also the co-founder of the RBR: Weekly Wrestling Talk podcast, which started in the summer of 2005 and is still going strong today, almost 15 years later. Due to school, work, and family commitments, I left the team in 2011 but still remain a part of the family.

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