Sami Zayn Heard Rumblings Of Matches Taking Place On The First WWE Raw On Netflix Being Set For WrestleMania

Sami Zayn slightly pulls back the curtain.

With so much excitement surrounding WWE Raw’s upcoming move to Netflix, many WWE Superstars are talking about what this move will mean for the growth of WWE and the professional wrestling industry as a whole.

During a recent appearance on the Battleground Podcast, Sami Zayn spoke about how serious WWE is taking this debut by revealing that he heard two of the matches slated for the January 6 episode of WWE Raw on Netflix, CM Punk vs. Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns vs. Solo Sikoa, were matches that could have been saved for WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas.

“Well, just to give you a little bit of insight, I suppose, to the heaviness of just the two matches that you listed… I will tell you that I heard rumblings about both of those matches being WrestleMania matches. So the fact that they’re on the Netflix premiere tells you what a big deal this is,” he said. “WWE, say what you all about them, they go all out when it’s time to go all out, and they’re going all out for this Netflix thing. I don’t know how it’s going to change the game, but it’s definitely going to be a game-changer.”

Sami Zayn would then speak about the change from cable television to streaming and how WWE continues to be undergoing one massive change after the other.

“For the first time ever, Raw is just not on conventional television,” he said. “When you start to actually look at the numbers of people that have switched over from cable to streaming services, it’s actually kind of the majority, especially on a global level, right? So it’s going to be reaching more people than ever, and it’s hard to predict what that means. In WWE, again, pulling the curtain back a tiny bit here, but I feel like you’re always saying, ‘Oh, just a crazy time right now.’ But then I realized a few years ago, I was like, ‘I’ve been saying that every year for the last eight years’. It’s always a crazy time, just a mix of some crazy new transition to some new big things. I just don’t even know what to expect, but it is a particularly crazy time with us moving to Netflix and all this stuff.”

Sami Zayn has recently been going between WWE Raw and WWE Friday Night SmackDown due to his issues with Solo Sikoa’s iteration of The Bloodline. He was recently attacked by them on the December 27 episode of WWE SmackDown. Learn more here.

Speaking of potential WrestleMania matchups, Fightful Select recently reported that CM Punk taking on Roman Reigns is currently being discussed for WrestleMania 41. Learn more here.

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