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00:30The end is here, the end is here.
01:00The end is here, fall and free, fall and free, fall and free.
01:12Well, you know, after months and months of taunting Sami Zayn.
01:33Karrion Kross finally got what he wanted when he pushed Sami over the edge this past Monday on Raw.
01:44Scott, that all this, the way you are, the way you want to be, Sami, you're never going to be world champion.
01:53Okay.
02:03I talked to Adam Pearce.
02:05Our match is official.
02:08Tick tock.
02:16Stop it.
02:19Got him.
02:20Literally, it's what Kross wanted.
02:22Yes, he did.
02:23And perhaps the mask has slipped on Sami Zayn.
02:27You might not like the words of the devil on your shoulder.
02:31But when the words are true, perhaps they hurt even more Sami.
02:35And the hatred you have inside your heart was apparent for all to see this past week at Raw.
02:42I think Karrion Kross is completely insane.
02:45Well, you know what?
02:46A lot of people believe this stuff makes sense.
02:49Yes sir!
02:57Well, you know what?
02:58A lot of people believe this stuff makes sense.
03:05Let's go!
03:08.
03:11The following contest is scheduled for one fall.
03:36Making his way to the ring, from Montreal to Canada, weighing it at 212 pounds, Sammy Zay!
04:06Karrion Kross says that his main targets in WWE are liars because he hates dishonesty.
04:33He claims that Sami Zayn is one of those liars.
04:40Well, he says Sami Zayn weaponizes sympathy, which I thought was very interesting on that entrance.
04:47Look, Sami Zayn wearing that traditional headdress here, okay, to get the people on his side.
04:53Why does he do that? Because it helped advance his own career.
04:58This is the rise, this is the misdirection that Karrion Kross has been trying to point out with regards to Sami Zayn.
05:06He's not trying to curry favor with anyone, he's celebrating his heritage, but nonetheless, it's Sami Zayn.
05:11I'm from England, I never walked down the aisle in a bowler hat when we were in London.
05:15You would have if they let you, and bell rings were underway.
05:18Sami Kross one-on-one here tonight.
05:22There's this groundswell of support that has surrounded Karrion Kross over the past couple of months, but for some reason there's many WWE fans that are back in this cycle.
05:35Social media has been very vocal about it, however, now you gotta prove yourself if you're Karrion Kross against Sami Zayn.
05:42Well, stop castigating the man first of all, you call him a psycho.
05:46That's my opinion.
05:47Okay, well, apparently, the reason there's a groundswell of support behind Karrion Kross is because certain people, and large numbers of them, actually listen to the message and agree with what he's saying.
05:59Yeah, guys like The New Day, and look how they've been acting over the past few months since they had a run-in with this guy.
06:04On the New Day, and thousands and thousands of others.
06:14Well, you are right, the message is one thing, the demand for opportunity is another.
06:19Tonight, opportunity looks for Karrion Kross, and you have to deliver.
06:24Not quite sure, uh, taking advice and listening to the message of a psycho is a good way to live your life, but I guess some people do that.
06:35Again, a warped perspective.
06:41Is this the pace you expected this match to start at?
06:44Well, it's the goading from Karrion Kross historically, and this guy dominated NXT.
06:49Let's be clear, hasn't had the same level of success as moving to Raw or SmackDown, but he's always been a manipulator, a guy able to break people mentally and then break them physically.
07:01Yeah, and here he's doing just that to Sami Zayn, the viciousness of Kross.
07:06And the official, official Daphne LaShawn backing Kross off.
07:09You see Scarlett barking at Sami Zayn.
07:13And now Sami fighting back.
07:22Sami is such a scrappy underdog fighter.
07:26Unrivaled spirit in that ring.
07:28Well, Sami's been on this, uh, what some may say is an obsessive quest in trying to win his first ever world championship in WWE.
07:37And that's been part of the issue for Sami Zayn.
07:39Kross is told that you're simply not good enough to win it.
07:42Shane does not believe that.
07:47Well, history would tell you, Sami hasn't been good enough to win it thus far.
07:51And I think Kross's point is, you need to bring out the hatred in your heart if you want to get to the top of the fight game.
08:02The cunning, seductive, manipulative, Scarlett, offering some words of wisdom in the ear of Karrion Kross.
08:10The modern day, Mickey and Mallory.
08:15Whatever those words of wisdom there, absolutely work.
08:19And her man is back on top.
08:21And forearm dropping Zayn.
08:23And now Kross looks to take over with his power.
08:26Sami, though, gonna end up on the barricade.
08:31Moonsault will take down Karrion Kross.
08:34And Sami's fired up.
08:35Great, nimble ability from Sami Zayn.
08:39You can never write this guy off.
08:41And that is frustrating to a powerhouse like Karrion Kross.
08:46And Kross now with a smile and a space.
08:49Sends Sami Zayn across the ring with a great throw.
08:53Saito suplex there from Kross.
08:56An absolute specialist with that move.
08:58And a doomsday Saito, he calls it, as he continues the attack on Zayn.
09:05Take another look.
09:06Dre Maneuver, he won an NXT Championship with Once Upon a Time.
09:12And now perhaps getting back to that kind of form here at Knight of Champions.
09:16And another straight forearm to Sami.
09:23But there again is just the resilience of Zayn.
09:26I'd never say die attitude.
09:28Oh!
09:31And elbow well connected.
09:40Cross cover.
09:42And Sami able to kick at one.
09:46Just then this plodding style by Karrion Kross to wear his opponent down.
09:52The cave mindset that lives inside the head of Karrion Kross.
09:57Draw out the pain.
09:59Draw out the torture.
10:02Wade, you gotta wonder if Kross actually believes in all this doomsday rhetoric.
10:06Or does he just like playing mind games with his opponent?
10:11Well in the end, regardless of which one is true,
10:14it's highly effective.
10:16And Sami Zayn hasn't been his normal self from the word go tonight.
10:23Sami with a couple of elbows.
10:30What's Sami gonna do here with Kross down to one knee?
10:33Oh, right to the back. A blow by Kross.
10:36Sami now hung up.
10:37Dangerous position here for Zayn.
10:39That's the point for Karrion Kross.
10:40You called it a plod.
10:41I hate you, Sami!
10:42You liar!
10:44Plodding style earlier when Kross needs to move quickly.
10:47When he needs to close down that space like he did there, he absolutely can't.
10:51They've covered.
10:52Sami kicks out and I did not mean plodding in a negative way.
10:56I mean an opportunity to slow the pace down and just beat the hell out of his opponent,
11:00which he's doing now to Sami Zayn.
11:02Well that surprises me because you've been nothing but negative about Karrion Kross since he walked out here this evening.
11:07I just think the guys are quite short of a happy meal. I mean, what do you expect?
11:12Well, Scarlett doesn't agree. Thousands and thousands of people around the world don't agree.
11:17But I'm pretty sure right now Sami Zayn might be adjusting his way of thinking before our eyes.
11:23You do realize there's been a lot of cycles over the years that have had millions of people following them, right?
11:28Doesn't make them right.
11:32That's for the straight right.
11:36Well, good point there.
11:38But that does not prove that Karrion Kross is his height.
11:42Oh, and Sami fighting back and here comes Zayn.
11:45Man, Sami Zayn just digging down deep again.
11:50But technically Sogut was Kross covering up and blocking almost all of those shots.
11:59Sami leapfrog and a close line drops Kross.
12:02Oh, that was massive from Sami Zayn.
12:05Knocking Kross out of his boots there with that one. Did not expect that at all.
12:10Perhaps that rage now boiling up inside Sami Zayn.
12:14And to be fair, he looks better for it.
12:17Which is Kross's point.
12:19Not gonna stop at 10.
12:29Not gonna stop at 10.
12:40Sami now measuring his man.
12:42Zayn.
12:43That axe handle right across the head of Karrion Kross.
12:47The game really has changed before our eyes.
12:50Some of it is broken inside Sami Zayn.
12:53And he's now in the ascendancy.
12:55And defenseless is Karrion Kross.
12:57Karrion Kross.
13:02And Karrion again quickly back to his feet.
13:04Sami though leapfrog rolls through.
13:06Caught by Kross.
13:07Kross has got Sami in possession.
13:09Down goes Sami Zayn.
13:11Cover now.
13:12Is it enough to put him away?
13:14And a kick out.
13:15Once again the power of Karrion Kross on display.
13:24Technique and everything with that leaping dead valley driver.
13:29Not quite enough to put Sami away.
13:31But Sami is looking like a broken man now.
13:35Yeah Kross could be closing in on an important victory here.
13:40Heard him screaming earlier at Zayn.
13:41You're a liar.
13:42You're nothing but a liar.
13:43And now we're going to put Sami Zayn away.
13:48Got to lock in that Kross jacket.
13:50Sami Zayn go for it though.
13:52And Sami went for the blue thunder bomb.
13:54Countered by Kross.
13:59Oh what a throw.
14:00Dropping Sami right on the back of his head.
14:02Once again the go to that doomsday.
14:05Saito wiping the brain of Sami Zayn.
14:10And I think I know what's coming next Cole.
14:12Could be Kross hammer time.
14:14Paying homage to my broadcast partner.
14:21This lands with a sickening thought.
14:23And Sami Zayn though.
14:24And it will turn it around.
14:26Into a blue thunder bomb.
14:30A move that almost beat Randy Orton in the king of the ring semifinals.
14:34Almost beat Kross here tonight.
14:37But another look at the doomsday Saito.
14:39That Kross uses so effectively.
14:41Really his go to move.
14:43That landing is so sickening on the back of the neck.
14:46And just when the killer blow was about to hit.
14:49Sami Zayn pulls it out of nowhere.
14:52Perhaps celebrating a smidge too soon.
14:55Because this Karrion Kross is double top.
15:01Sami trying to psych himself up.
15:03Get back into this match up off that blue thunder bomb.
15:07Really is tapping into the energy of this Riyadh audience.
15:10This is their man.
15:11They believe in Sami Zayn now.
15:13Karrion Kross just collapsing to the center of the mat.
15:16This is dead weight for Sami Zayn.
15:18And it's a lot of weight.
15:19Karrion Kross in about 280, 270.
15:22Oh nice German suplex released by Karrion Kross.
15:25And it's almost like he suckered Zayn in.
15:27Yes he did.
15:28Mind games once again.
15:29Burn out your energy.
15:30Lifting up this massive frame.
15:32And when you think you've done it.
15:34It's German suplex o'clock.
15:37Karrion Kross.
15:39Well versed in all aspects of the grappling game.
15:41In fact he's a brown belt.
15:43Comes to Judo.
15:45It's a guy who can snap baseball bats with his bare arms.
15:49Videos online of it if you don't believe me.
15:52Multiple in one go.
15:53Sami Zayn slips.
15:55From behind Karrion Kross.
15:57Zayn caught him.
15:59The explosion into the corner.
16:01I don't know if he got quite all of it.
16:03But maybe enough.
16:04As Kross landed on the back of his head.
16:06Oh God.
16:07Not where you want to be if you're Karrion Kross.
16:09Not when Sami has momentum.
16:12Went for the halluva kick.
16:14Kross caught him.
16:15In the Kross jacket.
16:16And that is firmly locked in now.
16:19Sami desperately reaching for those ropes.
16:22Sami had an opportunity.
16:24Kross intercepted him.
16:25Kross jacket in.
16:26Karrion Kross.
16:27They're gonna tap out Sami.
16:28Or pass it out here tonight.
16:30Oh cutting off the oxygen supply.
16:32Cutting off the blood supply to the brain.
16:35And now the hunks are in.
16:37Locked in.
16:38Wrapping the legs around the body of Sami Zayn.
16:41And Sami starting to fade.
16:43Nowhere to go.
16:44Kross has got him hooked good.
16:45Lips are turning blue.
16:47Body is going limp.
16:48Lights are fading.
16:50A matter of time now.
16:52Sami Zayn may be out.
16:54Oh God.
16:55His face is going purple.
16:56The official.
16:57Daphne LaShawn right there.
16:59Seeing if Sami taps.
17:00I think he's gone.
17:01I think he's gone.
17:02He may be out here.
17:03It's out.
17:08And he goes down this time.
17:09It's over ladies and gentlemen.
17:11Sami though.
17:12Keeps it up.
17:13And Sami's still on the fight.
17:14Somehow.
17:17Oh a quick burst of life to the mind of Sami Zayn.
17:21But what can you do with it Sami?
17:23I mean he's got to drag this 280 pound frame.
17:26Of Karrion Kross.
17:28To the bottom rope.
17:29Sami about a hand's length away.
17:31Fingertips away now.
17:32Trying to get to the bottom rope.
17:34Kross wisely shifts his weight.
17:36Oh that was so good from Karrion Kross.
17:38But is it enough?
17:39And Sami's fading again.
17:40Sami's fading again.
17:41And he's only a fingertip away from the bottom rope.
17:44I told you.
17:46I told you.
17:49Sami Zayn will force a break.
17:51And perhaps that tort was a little too much for Sami to take.
17:55It's broken for now.
17:59Sami looks like a beaten man.
18:05What's wrong with you?
18:07You gotta go and stay down.
18:13Oh goodness.
18:14Decapitation.
18:15Zayn.
18:16Zayn.
18:17Zayn.
18:18Zayn.
18:19Zayn.
18:20Zayn.
18:21Zayn.
18:22You're lying.
18:23The punishment now of Sami Zayn.
18:27Zayn.
18:28Zayn.
18:29Cross.
18:30Hold.
18:31The truth.
18:32Zayn's looking like a manish in here.
18:33Zayn's looking like a manish in here.
18:34But what?
18:35Haluva kick.
18:36Haluva kick.
18:37Haluva kick.
18:38Haluva kick.
18:39By Sami Zayn.
18:40Drops cross.
18:41Falls into the cover.
18:42Sami Zayn with a miracle.
18:43Zayn.
18:44Zayn.
18:45Zayn.
18:46Zayn.
18:47Zayn.
18:53Here's your winner.
18:56Sami Zayn.
19:01He had no interest in admitting that he was a liar.
19:05He was very truthful, but he said earlier today he was gonna beat Karrion Kross at night
19:10of Champion.
19:11Well Karrion Kross just stole defeat from the jaws of victory, he had his man beat, but one torn too many energised whatever spirit is inside Sami Zayn, and Sami Zayn with that flash halluva kick gets the job done.
19:34Sami got caught in the Kross jacket by Karrion Kross here, we thought it was over.
19:38Oh man, this felt like an eternity, I have no idea how this wasn't the end for Sami Zayn, it was all but over, until Sami Zayn fired up, got to the ropes, and clothesline after clothesline in the corner made it look...
19:59Hold the truth!
20:01Right game over, but one torn too many, and boom, right to the temple, halluva kick from Sami Zayn, grabs the job here in Riyadh.
20:14Let's go!
20:15What a victory!
20:16By Sami Zayn tonight, slaying Karrion Kross!
20:19What a victory!
20:24By Sami Zayn tonight, slaying Karrion Kross!
20:28Cross.
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