{"id":131341,"date":"2021-11-26T21:21:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T03:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/recovery\/?p=131341"},"modified":"2022-01-15T15:01:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T21:01:39","slug":"new-number-one-contender-for-roman-reigns-wwe-universal-championship-crowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/11\/26\/new-number-one-contender-for-roman-reigns-wwe-universal-championship-crowned\/","title":{"rendered":"New number one contender for Roman Reigns&#8217; WWE Universal Championship crowned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3579093482\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Sami Zayn is the new number one contender for Roman Reigns&#8217; WWE Universal Championship.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WAIT A MINUTE!!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamiZayn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SamiZayn<\/a> was still in the match!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamiZayn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SamiZayn<\/a> has earned a shot at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWERomanReigns?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WWERomanReigns<\/a>&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UniversalTitle?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UniversalTitle<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SmackDown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SmackDown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z2viENHMXi\">pic.twitter.com\/z2viENHMXi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1464428290819645442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Zayn won a Battle Royal on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/11\/26\/11-26-wwe-smackdown-tv-report-mcdonalds-alt-perspective-report-on-black-friday-battle-royal-mcintyre-hardy-vs-corbin-moss-holland-cesaro\/\">this week&#8217;s episode of Smackdown<\/a> to earn his opportunity. Jeff Hardy was mistakenly announced as the winner of the match, but Zayn reentered the ring after exiting it through the lower rope earlier in the match and thus not being eliminated. Zayn tossed Hardy over the top rope from behind to win.<\/p>\n<p>Zayn celebrated the victory, but his demeanor shifted to concern when Kayla Braxton revealed that Brock Lesnar would return to Smackdown next week. 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WAIT A MINUTE!!!@SamiZayn was still in the match!!! @SamiZayn has earned a shot at @WWERomanReigns&#39; #UniversalTitle #SmackDown pic.twitter.com\/z2viENHMXi &mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/11\/26\/new-number-one-contender-for-roman-reigns-wwe-universal-championship-crowned\/\" title=\"New number one contender for Roman Reigns&#8217; WWE Universal Championship crowned\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2021\/04\/wwe-roman-reigns-universal-championship-1246327-1280x0-1.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131342,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131341\/revisions\/131342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}