VIDEO: Dave Meltzer on Sami Zayn’s WWE Elimination Chamber fallout

Dave Meltzer talked about the fallout from Sami Zayn’s loss to Roman Reigns on Wrestling Observer Radio.

Tuesday morning’s show had Meltzer talk about the Sami Zayn segment on Raw, where Zayn asked Kevin Owens to come out. Zayn said he knew what had happened between them in the last few months, but asked Owens to team with him, saying that he knew they could defeat the Bloodline together. Owens told Zayn that he attacked the Bloodline not for Zayn but for himself, his family, and Zayn’s family. He rejected Zayn’s offer, telling him to team with Jey Uso instead.

“You don’t need to be giving this right away,” Meltzer said regarding the storyline. “The longer you do this, the better story it tells…we got six weeks.”

As he was exiting the ring, Corbin jumped Zayn, leading to a match. Although Zayn won the match, Corbin had control for much of the match. Meltzer said this was a sign that WWE sees Sami Zayn as the ‘underdog’, who needs to work to get a win compared to Cody Rhodes, who beat Corbin without any problems.

“Their mentality obviously, watching the way this match was laid out, is that Sami is best served as the underdog and this underdog mentality, and therefore he has to be beat up a lot of the time, and then comes back to win. That is their Sami story,” he said.

Zayn lost to Roman Reigns at Elimination Chamber this past Saturday in his hometown of Montreal.