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#2 Sami Zayn joins forces with Daniel Bryan and Rowan

A striking similarity in promos.

Sami Zayn returned on the Raw after WrestleMania and had a fun little match with Finn Balor for the Intercontinental Championship. After the match, he cut a scathing promo on the fans and how they are the reason why WWE is a toxic environment. Zayn was a heel on Raw before he got injured and his work over here was top notch. It was a similar promo in a way to the ones that Daniel Bryan has been cutting over on Smackdown. He made a fantastic heel throughout his WWE Championship reign. There are many similarities between the paths that Bryan and Zayn have taken.

Raw and Smackdown will be in Montreal, Zayn's hometown. He will almost surely get a massive reaction, despite being a crowd bashing heel. He could, however, garner some heat by forming a stable with the former WWE Champion and his intellectual peer, Rowan, on Smackdown. Zayn is intellectually on par with Daniel Bryan, that is for certain.

This partnership just fits and could serve to make two of the unlikeliest villains in the company become even more villainous. Bryan, with Zayn and Rowan by his side, could get even better as a heel, and could possibly even regain the WWE title from Kofi Kingston at the right time in the near future.