00:00target the crown for king of the ring it'll be earned next week night of
00:06champions saturday june 28th from riyadh saudi arabia will be streaming on
00:09peacock but right now we have to see who will arrive in the finals this is
00:14semi-final action randy orton and sammy zhang
00:17randy orton perhaps the sentimental choice for the king of the ring
00:23this year after losing out in the final last year when he really wasn't pinned
00:29he got screwed out of that final a chance to make things good this year in
00:342025 fix that problem the path to arrive here
00:40at this semi-final for each man for randy orton
00:43it was on smackdown a week ago when he was able to survive
00:48allister black carmelo hayes and la night we know what happened with la night as
00:53he was in position for the leaping elbow before
00:55bronson reed and bron breaker arrived randy orton had an all-time moment with
01:01the mid-air rko of carmelo hayes on to la night to earn his ticket and the big jumps
01:09against the big man sammy zhang defeated bronze breakers dom misterio and penta back on june 9th on monday night raw head
01:16randy's had enough already i remember historically randy being furious anytime
01:21anybody ever chopped him sammy zhang no care though
01:25and randy was quick to get out of the way
01:28he saw just down the corner of his eye coming his way
01:32those eyes of the viper just narrowed a little
01:36and then this may well backfire on sammy zhang who started out red hot tonight
01:42and that's the last thing you want are the intense focus eyes of the viper
01:48requested with the focus of sammy zhang right now because carrying cross of late has been
01:54whispering severe negativity into the ears
01:57of sammy zhang consistently telling him he's not good enough
02:01to beat the very top tier of competitors
02:05in wwe and that clearly includes randy orton
02:10yeah cross has a way of doing
02:11the silver tongue
02:13referee missed that that was a poke in the eye
02:16you can tell randy irritated by those charts
02:19oh and the uppercut from orton as well
02:21and now starting to listen to those sadistic demons wait
02:25one for good measure
02:27returning the favor is sammy zhang
02:31who is not holding back at all here
02:33in his quest to progress in the king of the ring
02:37oh and he gets rid of his leg and slams him down right into the apron
02:43oh you knew it was only a matter of time
02:46monitors went bursting flying everywhere
02:50the back of sammy zhang you could hear the thud
02:54you could see the spine of zhang connecting right on the point of that monitor and he's barely moved since
03:00shaking those hands trying to get a little feeling back in him
03:04you could see him arching up after that impact on our reinforced announced desk
03:10and orton's going back to the well
03:13oh man
03:14he's bent the entire front shield of the desk with zane's body
03:20semi-final action king of the ring
03:22what did you say about the look in the eye of the viper
03:34i'll tell you right now a chop is no fun at the best of times it rarely beats anybody
03:40but it is just highly irritated the viper he was going for the hat trick
03:44and sammy is fighting his way out of it well sammy's now scrambling
03:48and he denies him the steel steps but gives return fire
03:53head of the viper bouncing off the steel here now the referee is counting here up to a five
04:00both competitors need to keep an eye on this
04:03double count out is doing nobody anything
04:07oh sammy was going to give him some of his own medicine
04:10but instead randy slams his head right into the announce desk
04:15and it felt quite good natured a little earlier but
04:18that is all out of the window now
04:20and that bodes badly for sammy zane
04:24because when the viper is unrepentant as he is now
04:28that is when he's at his most dangerous
04:30intense action out onto the floor now carries over back in ring here in our semi-final king of the ring
04:44i don't know that the crowd knew exactly what they were going to get
04:53in terms of two guys who were so respectful in the ring prior to the semi-final
05:00match shaking hands but there has been a deep level of brutality to what we're seeing here
05:06it's just the kind of competitors these two are combined with the kind of stakes
05:13at the very top of the card in wwe you shake hands
05:18you wish each other oh there's those chops again
05:20the best but you realize it is dog eat dog nobody does you favors
05:26when it comes to the main events here on smackdown and raw
05:30both men spending time talking about why it will be them who is the king of the ring
05:44as sammy again the damage has been done to his back just in the last few minutes alone
05:50sammy came out with a strategy putting pedal to the metal trying to get a hot start on orton the issue
05:57being orton just rode through all of it and does what he does best taking control and now perhaps
06:04looking to apply some severe punishment in the form of that garvin stomp
06:19and this is just the pace at which randy orton excels a wounded opponent
06:24and all the time in the world to target those weakest smallest of joints
06:30bullseye every time
06:32randy orton is having it his way right now against sammy zane in this king of the ring tournament
06:47semi-final winner advances to knight of champions in riyadh to try to become king of the ring
06:54yeah such a fast start from sammy zane but once orton powered his way through that it is the power
07:00of randy orton that has taken control here
07:04zane with the movement once again trying to get some footway back into this match and you can see him
07:10trying to gather himself after he took such damage on our announce table yeah what multiple slams to the
07:16back oh and the big elbow from zane as randy runs right into it confidence building moments for
07:23sammy zane you take the counter punishment and you take control of the match oh he's trying for the
07:30blue thunder bomb but instead orton driving down the elbows to the back of his neck and then delivering
07:36the big clothesline and another sammy zane is no powerhouse and the size of randy orton oh scoop power
07:43slam the issue there that is 280 pounds of randy orton the biggest he's ever been
07:51and sammy zane felt every ounce of that frame
07:57i don't know that sammy realizes the position he put himself in
08:00oh great big ddt the viper is feeling it a little emphasis on that ddt perhaps more so than usual
08:10and randy orton sees his place in the final he gave the warning to everybody to cody to jay and spelled it out
08:20for sammy oh and sammy gathers himself just enough to get out of harm's way
08:28oh no gathered is the right way certainly scrambled out of there in a hurry unfortunately for him
08:33we does not appear to have his wits about him and why would he after the beaten he's already taken
08:38time and again our reinforced announced desk has become the weapon of choice but sammy able to get
08:46back on his feet and sammy delivers some of his own medicine to the viper
08:54can you believe that where did he find the strength i don't know if i've ever seen anybody return the
09:00favor to the viper quite like that sammy zane is tapping into something very special here
09:06it these guys are extending themselves with so much on the line semi-final king of the ring
09:13as that left shoulder runs flush into the post and now sammy has his desired target lined up
09:27another scoop power slam the viper hooks the leg for the win and sammy survives at two and change
09:35just when you drop your guard that is when randy orton is at his most dangerous those reflexes are
09:43unsurpassed tremendous instincts and in the nick of time pulling out that power slam on sammy zane
09:51who thought he was just about to punch his ticket to react well you saw the diamonds in that king's
09:57crown remember the winner of king of the ring gets a championship opportunity at summer slam but to do that
10:05you gotta win here right now to make it to the finals next week zane follows him up looking for the
10:13halluva edwarden just gets away
10:18and look at his right leg hung up there for an extra moment
10:22rko attack was this the moment randy going for the rko and finally that blue thunder bomb begging for a fast count it wasn't quite fast enough for sammy zane
10:48but sammy zane but sammy zane can still finish it here back and forth they go
10:56the ebb and flow the tides of combat we have seen it between zane and or
11:03they ain't having to dig deeper than he's ever done before if he's gonna pull this off
11:08again unable to get the rko
11:18oh but he does so this time
11:20that was awesome that was awesome stuff in a king of the ring semis
11:46well randy orton goes back to the final of the king of the ring
11:53he will meet the winner of cody rhodes and jay usso that takes place this monday on raw
12:01but randy orton gets an opportunity to write last year's wrong in the final of the king of the ring at night of champions
