Sami Zayn eyes WWE championship at Night time of Champions in Saudi Arabia

27.06.2026

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Sami Zayn is getting one other likelihood to win a WWE championship when he steps into the ring on Saturday towards Cody Rhodes and Gunther at Night time of Champions in Saudi Arabia.

Rhodes booked the match between the 2 prime wrestlers on “Friday Night time SmackDown” after Zayn’s officiating as a particular visitor referee got here underneath hearth. He quick-counted for Rhodes after his combat with Gunther exploded within the ring. After Rhodes demanded that SmackDown GM Nick Aldis restart the match with a brand new referee, Gunther attacked Zayn. Then, Zayn returned the favor. The match was booked and Zayn has certainly one of his largest challenges but.

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Sami Zayn entering the wrestling ring at a WWE live event in Madrid, Spain.

Sami Zayn enters the ring throughout a WWE reside occasion at Palacio Vistalegre in Madrid, Spain, on June 4, 2026. (Andrew Timms/WWE)

Nevertheless, Zayn was in excessive spirits when he spoke to Fox Information Digital earlier than the occasion.

“Good,” he stated when requested how he was feeling. “Look, anytime you might be main-eventing an enormous PLE, the truth that Saudi Arabia is at all times slightly particular for me simply being from this a part of the world, clearly. And the truth that you’re main-eventing for a WWE championship.

“I don’t suppose there’s a greater spot to be in, besides being the champion, which is the purpose right here. However in addition to from being the champion, it’s the perfect spot you possibly can sort of ask for. I actually can’t complain.”

Zayn was born in Canada after his mother and father got here to the nation from Syria. If he wins the title, he can be the primary WWE world champion of Syrian descent.

He stated successful the title in Riyadh can be an enormous second for him.

“I feel it’s kinda a type of issues that might kinda be exhausting to course of. I really don’t know. I don’t know the way the followers would react,” he stated. “I hope they’d get pleasure from it however you by no means know as a result of my character proper now’s slightly polarizing – I really don’t know. However I don’t know. I feel there’s a variety of like cultural and historic sort of significance that might kinda perhaps hit me after the very fact.

Sami Zayn making his entrance during SmackDown at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky.

Sami Zayn makes his entrance throughout SmackDown at Rupp Area in Lexington, Kentucky, on Could 22, 2026. (Craig Melvin/WWE)

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“From a sentimental standpoint, for positive, I feel it might be sort of superior. I feel it might be an enormous cultural second, really. I don’t give it some thought. I sort of dismiss it rather a lot at this level as a result of we come to Saudi rather a lot. Rather a lot has been made from the truth that I’m Arab or I’m Muslim or no matter. However rising up, that was not the case. It was not like this was a standard factor or one thing that you possibly can ever even dream. I couldn’t have dreamt that this could occur. So, yeah, that might be a reasonably large deal I feel.”

A possible Zayn win traces up completely with a Jey Uso King of the Ring win. Uso would have the ability to select to tackle Zayn, hypothetically, or world heavyweight champion Roman Reigns.

When speaking to Fox Information Digital about the potential for him going up towards Uso for the title, Zayn seemed intrigued given the historical past he has with The Bloodline.

“I considered it slightly bit however I actually attempt to give attention to one factor at a time. However I do suppose due to the truth that The Bloodline is reunited on ‘Uncooked’ with a barely totally different skew now as a result of Jacob provides a barely totally different dimension however it begs the sort of query, the elephant within the room, which is, ‘The place does Sami Uso lie in all that?’ As a result of we’re on separate reveals, I don’t know if and when that state of affairs, that query, manifests itself on our tv present,” he stated.

“I feel a technique or one other it’d be fascinating and that might be a extremely fascinating factor. I feel it might be very, very fascinating really. However we simply gotta see the place the chips fall. However I do suppose, if a situation like that involves be, I feel it might result in some fascinating week-to-week programming the place you kinda gotta see how this unfolds.”