{"id":362126,"date":"2026-07-07T00:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=362126"},"modified":"2026-07-07T00:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:53:29","slug":"sami-zayns-undisputed-wwe-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/sami-zayns-undisputed-wwe-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sami Zayn’s Undisputed WWE Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sami Zayn became WWE Champion at Night of Champions, pinning Cody Rhodes in a triple threat also involving Gunther, to officially summit that decades-long climb to the highest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It had taken multiple attempts at various iterations of the WWE World title, over 10 years in the corporate, and got here after watching those he wrestled with outside the corporate are available and etch their names within the halls of World Champions past.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, as he said during Friday’s “WWE SmackDown,” nobody will have the option to take the proven fact that he’s a WWE World Champion away from him. The win cemented him as a Grand Slam Champion, having collected reigns with the US, Intercontinental, and Tag Team Championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But he can also be the primary Grand Slam Champion to have won all of those titles while acting on the “SmackDown” brand, the primary Muslim WWE Champion because the Iron Sheik, and thus the primary Muslim Grand Slam Champion in the corporate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And, on a more personal note, he’s the most recent of late legend Dusty Rhodes’ batch of “WWE NXT” prospects, collectively often called “Dusty’s Kids,” to grow to be World Champion \u2013 doing it by dethroning his son.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But, because the ink of history begins to dry, attention turns to the subsequent page. That’s yet to be written. A blank space communicating the subsequent to return, whoever that could be. So with that in mind, let’s break down who should fill that void, who needs to be the one to inherit the title once Zayn has had his moment within the highlight.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Will: Cody Rhodes<\/h2>\n
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Cody Rhodes already has a chance to regain his title from Sami Zayn, established for Monday’s “WWE Raw,” having beaten Jey Uso on “WWE SmackDown” to earn Number One Contendership.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If he were to win, it will be his fourth title reign since “Ending His Story” against Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 40.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It might even be the third time he has beaten the person who beat him for his title, having lost the title to John Cena at WrestleMania 41 only to reclaim it at SummerSlam 2025, after which to Drew McIntyre in January, only to reclaim it in March. Actually, Rhodes’ win over Reigns followed that vein, having been felled initially at WrestleMania 39.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Point being, beating Rhodes generally is a Herculean task in itself. Beating him with the title on the road is that extra step towards unimaginable. Beating him in a championship rematch has proven to be unimaginable so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That, coupled with the very manner Zayn won his title, arguably stealing the title from beneath Rhodes and Gunther, lends to the concept that he’s on the ropes because it stands. It might take a miracle for him to see Rhodes off, and if he were to do it, then that might put the Undisputed into Undisputed WWE Champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But when he were to tug off that miracle, then perhaps it will take one other miraculous happenstance for the right\u00a0<\/em>man to return and dethrone him when all is claimed and done.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Should: Kevin Owens<\/h2>\n
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Kevin Owens is on the sidelines indefinitely having announced last yr that he could be needing neck surgery. Health is wealth and clearly this all enters the realm of fantasy booking across the pragmatism that ought to include that. But, wrestling being the love story for masochists that it’s, Owens sure could be essentially the most interesting choice to inherit the title from his best friend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Daniel Bryan, Edge, and even this yr with Paige, all have returned from cataclysmic neck injuries that had initially spelled the top of their time with the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All returned to compete for WWE gold, with Bryan winning the WWE Championship, Edge winning the Royal Rumble to challenge Roman Reigns (and Bryan) at WrestleMania 37, and Paige returning at this yr’s WrestleMania to assert the Women’s Tag Team Championship. So there’s precedent, on the very least.<\/p>\n

Owens can also be in that gray area of getting been a WWE World Champion, holding the Universal title from 2017 to 2018, while never holding the Lineal WWE Championship that Zayn is in possession of. Zayn being in possession of something Owens hasn’t been and desires to be has never historically gone well for the champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But times have modified since then, and while Zayn may call himself the “Last Real Good Guy” in wrestling, he’s a heel. Owens, should he return, could be undoubtedly revered and adored by the group. That sets the scene for Zayn and Owens to share yet one more iconic moment in an duo warranting its own Hall of Fame ballot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One where Owens now has the group behind him rooting for him to unseat Zayn and establish who the actual “Last Good Guy” is. Or, alternatively, one where Owens continues to be the spiteful enemy he at all times is when Zayn has something he wants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Either way, it feels\u00a0right\u00a0<\/em>for Owens to be the one. It at all times does.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n

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