WWE Raw: 5 theories why Sami Zayn returned as a heel

#1 Title opportunities

Sami Zayn held the NXT Championship for the one and only time in his career from December 2014 to February 2015. Since then, he has challenged for several main-roster titles, including the WWE Championship and United States Championship, but he is yet to win gold on Raw or SmackDown Live.

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A total of eight titles changed hands at WrestleMania 35 (WWE keeps saying seven – the number is actually eight if you include both the Raw and SmackDown Women’s Championships), and the high number of changes is noteworthy because all five of the new male title holders are babyfaces (Tony Nese, Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder, Finn Balor, Seth Rollins and Kofi Kingston).

With no rematch clause in WWE these days, all five of those new champions are going to have Superstars queuing up to face them in the coming weeks.

If Zayn returned as a good guy, he would have been unlikely to be a realistic title winner any time soon (granted, he faced Balor on Raw, but he was never going to win, was he?). Now that he is a bad guy, he could potentially challenge for a world title at some point this summer.

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Danny Hart has been one of the most active writers at Sportskeeda since he began working for the WWE section of the site in October 2017.

Danny currently writes around 100 articles per month about WWE. Before joining Sportskeeda, he worked for seven years as a writer and editor for the football website Goal.com. He also reported live from Premier League stadiums around England.

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Edited by Nishant Jayaram