Sami Zayn is MVP of The Bloodline as Drama Continues with Roman Reigns - Bleacher Report

WWE Survivor Series WarGames connected Saturday nighttime from the TD Garden successful Boston, Massachusetts felt similar 1 of the amended pro wrestling events of the year.

A immense chunk of that recognition goes to Sami Zayn's storyline successful the Bloodline play and the mode helium has wholly revitalized a Roman Reigns unified-title storyline that was stuck successful purgatory.

The Honorary Uce was by acold the centerpiece to the night's main lawsuit arsenic The Bloodline (Reigns, Solo Sikoa, Zayn and The Usos) went against the hodgepodge of The Brawling Brutes (Sheamus, Ridge Holland, and Butch), Drew McIntyre, and Kevin Owens.

This was, without exaggeration, 1 of the champion modern bits of storytelling successful wrestling to date.

The biggest takeaway from the match? It is going to hurt if and erstwhile The Bloodline turns connected Zayn.

Saturday night's events volition play a immense portion successful that. And that's astir apt the point. If WWE wants to seizure the lighting successful a vessel that was Daniel Bryan's "Yes Movement" each those years ago, it's blatantly close present with Zayn.

But adjacent arsenic a standalone thing, the WarGames lucifer was a gluttony of large storytelling. Zayn had his tension-filled dustups with Jey Uso. After adjacent chats with Reigns passim the night, the unified champ ever had a adjacent oculus connected things.

And determination was a long, agelong callback to the relationship betwixt Zayn and Owens that was beardown capable to marque adjacent the smartest of fans second-guess whether the adopted Uso mightiness conscionable betray his caller family.

And portion fans recognize that large takeaway, there's thing to beryllium said for the sheer amusement worth of the match.

There's present the question of wherever things spell from present and astatine what pace. Zayn volition yet fig retired The Bloodline mightiness not mean keeping him astir for the agelong term. While they did look to spot things up, the Jey-Sami narration continues to beryllium volatile.

There's a existent chance, too, that Saturday night's lawsuit could yet pb to Zayn playing a relation successful the outright main lawsuit of WrestleMania 39. Things are truthful bully connected this beforehand that helium could beryllium a acheronian equine to shove the likes of Cody Rhodes and possibly adjacent The Rock retired of the limelight travel 'Mania season.

It's worthy pointing retired that the WarGames lucifer itself played a pivotal relation here, arsenic conscionable immoderate different Survivor Series showdown wouldn't person carried the aforesaid weight. It meant nary silly "wrestlers laying around" worldly truthful different communicative beats could happen. Some guys conscionable weren't permitted successful the ringing yet, arsenic 1 salient example.

The caller antheral successful complaint of originative arsenic of astir six months ago, Triple H, has fixed caller prominence to the WarGames stipulation amid a big of different changes to the absorption of WWE.

The archetypal WarGames lucifer of the nighttime benefited from the lucifer type, too. First up was Team Belair (Bianca Belair, Alexa Bliss, Asuka, Mia Yim, and Becky Lynch) clashing with Team Bayley (Damage CTRL's Bayley, Dakota Kai and Iyo Sky, positive Nikki Cross and Rhea Ripley).

The lucifer was a thriller with outstanding storytelling. Sure, the large happening was Lynch's instrumentality arsenic the 5th subordinate of the squad and her moving with, not against, Belair. But small things successful that match, similar planting the seeds for Lynch vs. Bayley and lone Asuka's mist being capable to dilatory Ripley truly showed a respect for the wrestlers and viewers alike.

Was the lucifer an all-time classical that moved the needle dramatically? Absolutely not, but it was an entertaining matter that made much consciousness than the accustomed cobbled-together Survivor Series matches. This had meaning and the fallout will, too.

It's 1 measurement successful WWE revamping the pay-per-view docket successful refreshing ways. None of it works without a endowment similar Zayn successful a salient role, but the originative lucifer benignant besides truly fto his communicative dispersed its wings successful refreshing ways.

Maybe that's underselling the 38-year-old, the outright MVP of WWE's main lawsuit country close present (one tin astir spot that acknowledgment connected Reigns' face, too). Few Superstars tin measurement successful and bash what he's doing close now. He is the guy, aft all, who ruined (the bully benignant of ruined) a super-serious conception precocious by making Reigns and The Usos ace up during a unrecorded segment.

Paul Heyman himself, besides somewhat corpsing successful that conception acknowledgment to Zayn, really deed connected these notes astir the adopted Uso successful the post-event property conference.

"Sami brings a dynamic nary of america were prepared for, and we're prepared for everything," helium told reporters. "What Sami besides brings is simply a transportation with the assemblage that nary of america tin person due to the fact that we person been excessively engaged being the apical enactment successful the full manufacture for implicit 2 years."

That quality and storytelling range—from goofy to the superior happenings of the WarGames match—makes Zayn must-see television, and he's carrying Reigns and Co. close on with him. He's invested, fans are invested, and Survivor Series 2022 volition beryllium remembered mostly for his moments.

It's unfathomable momentum for a fresh-feeling WWE that hasn't seemed this large successful a agelong time. Saturday night, Zayn simply proved erstwhile much he's the 1 controlling the ship, adjacent if the feline adjacent to him is the expected gold-wearing captain.