Sami Zayn has been signed to WWE since 2013, and though he’s had several title runs, Zayn has yet to win a main roster world championship. Over the years, he’s had several shots at the accolade, including his Undisputed WWE Championship match against Drew McIntyre at this year’s Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia, but WWE has yet to give Zayn such a crowning victory.

While debating Zayn’s chances at world championship gold during an episode of “Busted Open Radio,” Tommy Dreamer shared when and where he thinks “The Underdog from the Underground” will finally reach the aforementioned pinnacle. “He has one shot to win the world title: WrestleMania [in] Saudi. Right place, right time.” Dreamer also thinks Zayn should add the stipulation going into WWE WrestleMania 43 that if he doesn’t win the world title at the PLE, he’ll leave the company. “All’s he’s got to do is win it once.”

“Sami Zayn is a good hand,” Bully Ray said, a few minutes earlier. “At the end of the day, if there’s nothing else going on for him, he’s a good hand. And [being] the good hand, sometimes, is the cast of death.” After this, Bully went on to admit that Zayn is better than just a “good hand,” but ultimately seems “stuck” creatively. According to Bully, despite Zayn doing excellent work alongside The Bloodline, WWE’s creative team doesn’t seem to know what to do with him.

However, Dreamer pointed out that Zayn is over not only in Saudi Arabia, and with a heel turn he could add an extra layer to his WWE character, though they’d have to work hard to stop fans from eventually cheering for him.

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The upcoming fight between Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano at MVP MMA on May 16 is one of the most highly anticipated mixed martial arts bouts in recent memory. Rousey and Carano are coming off 10 and 17 year spells away from the sport respectively, but their star power and influence on women’s MMA especially makes this something of a dream fight for many fans. However, if you are expecting a series between the two pioneers of women’s MMA, it might be best to not hold your breath.

During a recent interview with “Sky Sports,” Rousey admitted that for as much as she would love to have multiple fights with Carano, she knows this is going to be her last fight in the sport of MMA. “I mean if this is the kind of fight that forces a trilogy, that would be hard to say no to. But yeah, I just feel like this is the perfect closure and the perfect way to walk away and to say goodbye.”

When asked why she wanted to face Carano, Rousey explained that it wasn’t a case of picking her because she wanted to return. Instead, it was more the fact that Rousey has so much respect for Carano that she would have felt foolish had she not got to fight it out with a woman that inspired her to entre the world of MMA. “She’s the one that inspired me to do this in the first place, and she’s the one that inspired me to come back. It wasn’t like ‘Oh I feel like I need a fight, I need to pick to Gina,’ I say Gina and was like ‘She makes me want to fight one more time, for the last time,’ and that we can both offer each other a chance at redemption.”

Rousey has had beef with current UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Kayla Harrison in recent months, which has caused speculation as to whether that could be a potential fight for Rousey. With that said, Rousey is adamant that May 16 will be the last time she makes the walk to the cage.

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UFC 328 is rapidly approaching as UFC Middleweight Champion Khamzat Chimaev will look to make his first defense of this crown against the former champion Sean Strickland. The two men have already been trading words on social media and in recent interviews, with Strickland even claiming that he came all the way to the area where Chimaev’s gym was just to see if he would do anything.

Strickland has always been a controversial figure in the UFC, and his hyper-patriotism has caused some backlash over the years. So much so that another former UFC Middleweight Champion, Luke Rockhold, stated in a recent vlog that despite being an American, he will actually be rooting for Chimaev over Strickland at UFC 328.

“Sean is effective and he’s scrappy and he hangs in there. Khamzat is so much more talented, it’s about who can relax and implement their game plan the best and Khamzat’s doing everything he needs to and I think he can really have a masterclass. I think last time out there was a little bit of tension, he wanted to win the world title. Now he can go out there and be his best and I expect the best from Khamzat and I would love to see him put this f****** American away. I’m American, but I like good people. Khamzat is a great person, through and through. Sean Strickland, he’s a piece of s***.”

With the fight just over two weeks away, it’s safe to say that the two men will trade some words back-and-forth between now and the fight, and given Strickland’s history of always saying something to get people talking, UFC 328 could be one of the biggest fight cards of the year.

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While promoting her upcoming fight with Gina Carano at MVP MMA on May 16, UFC Hall of Famer Ronda Rousey took the time to fire some shots back at current UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Kayla Harrison, who had some choice words for Rousey lying about past stories to do with training together, and the fact that Rousey is simply irrelevant in today’s fight game. Rousey called Harrison irrelevant, told her to “eat her groceries,” and claimed that the only reason Harrison is even in MMA is because of her. 

Harrison was able to respond to these comments on the UFC Fight Night 274 pre-show when she was asked about Rousey, and while she admitted that she could be meaner, she didn’t hold back. “I can’t imagine what it would be like for someone to come in and beat everything I’ve ever done. That would be hard. I get it.” Harrison said, who stated that it would be rough for Rousey to imagine that when she is relaxing at her home feeding her chickens. With that said, the current UFC star explained that her biggest issue, despite everything Rousey has done in MMA, is that she’s just chasing the money, especially in her upcoming fight with Carano.

“At one point, she was a real athlete. She was training for the Olympics, she’s an Olympic bronze medalist, she became UFC Champion, she was really trying to chase greatness, and I will never take away that Ronda is probably the most important female fighter. If it weren’t for her, for sure, I wouldn’t be where I’m at and I wouldn’t have a job, but this fight is not the greatest fight of all time. It’s between someone who hasn’t fought in ten years and is coming off two knockout losses, and another woman who is, again, another legend, another pioneer, but hasn’t fought in 17 years and is in her forties. Don’t call it the greatest fight of all time, like I’m chasing greatness, you’re chasing money, we’re different.”

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Fighter pay has always been a hot topic when it comes to the UFC. While some fighters can earn millions for being a main event star, those starting out on the prelims don’t earn enough for them to make being a professional mixed martial artist a full-time profession.

Ronda Rousey was someone who earned the big bucks in the UFC, but she took a swipe at the company when revealing the minimum pay for those fighting on the MVP MMA card on May 16, which turned out to be significantly higher than the UFC to the point where someone could make in the region of $120,000 if they fought three times per year.

With that said, money isn’t always the main thing some people fight for, like current UFC Middleweight Champion Khamzat Chimaev, who criticized Rousey’s comments in a recent vlog documenting his current training camp. “There never would have been Ronda Rousey without UFC,” Chimaev said. “I hate this, like you’re ungrateful. If they pay good or they don’t pay good, who cares? When she was Olympic champ, what did she make then?”

Pay in the UFC has changed somewhat for main eventers since Rousey last fought for the company in 2016. She made approximately $3 million in her loss to Amanda Nunes at UFC 207, which amounted to nearly two-thirds of the entire fighter pay out for the card. For Chimaev, his UFC 319 victory over Dricus Du Plessis where he became the UFC Middleweight Champion saw him make an estimated amount of just over $2.5 million, with “DDP” making just under $4 million. However, the pay scale is still extremely low for the overall company compared to other sports, with fighters only earning between 15-20% of the company’s revenue, as opposed to the NFL, boxing, or even the Premier League where all three of those franchises share over half its revenue with its athletes.

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