Sami Zayn may be headed to the King of the Ring quarterfinals, but let’s be honest—his real tag team partner in this match was spite.
On WWE Raw, the first of four King of the Ring qualifiers kicked off with Zayn squaring off against Bron Breakker, Dominik Mysterio, and Penta in what might as well have been a 4-man demolition derby. From the jump, Breakker was out for blood, hurling Dom over the announce table with a leaping crossbody that defied both gravity and Mysterio’s insurance policy. He also speared Penta so hard on the outside that a mariachi band in Phoenix flinched in sympathy.
It was all Breakker, all day… until it wasn’t.
Just when the Steiner-powered future looked inevitable, LA Knight showed up like karma in black jeans, hitting Breakker with a BFT outta nowhere. Why? Because Breakker cost him a Money in the Bank win, and Knight apparently keeps receipts like a CVS printer.
After Knight yeeted himself back into the crowd like Batman with a Southern accent, Zayn capitalized, hitting Dom with the Exploder Suplex–Helluva Kick combo to secure the win and slide into the next round like a man who just dodged a pack of wild dogs.
Zayn now awaits the winner of SmackDown’s four-way featuring LA Knight, Randy Orton, Aleister Black, and Carmelo Hayes—aka four guys who probably all believe they invented wrestling. Meanwhile, the other side of the bracket looks like it was built in a create-a-wrestler fever dream: Sheamus, Rusev, Bronson Reed, and a mystery opponent on Raw, while Cody Rhodes, Damian Priest, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Andrade battle on SmackDown.
The King of the Ring final goes down in Riyadh on June 28 at Night of Champions—but the real royalty here might just be the king of opportunism, Sami Zayn.