Because of the moment that Sami Zayn has right now with fans, there had been some people pushing for Zayn to headline WrestleMania Goes Hollywood, but WWE officials felt he isn’t a main eventer yet so they’ve kept with their original plans.
Those plans are to headline WrestleMania with a Undisputed WWE Universal Championship match between Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns. WWE had Reigns beat Zayn to retain his title at Elimination Chamber.
On Monday’s Raw in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, WWE had Rhodes come out for a segment, but he was quickly interrupted by Paul Heyman.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that WWE was concerned with the Zayn chants during Rhodes’ promo so they kept it short by having Heyman come out.
“They didn’t kill the story by having him loose. When Cody was out there…the stuff with Cody and Heyman…they were very concerned about Sami chants, which is one of the reasons why they got Heyman out there in seconds,” Meltzer stated.
They did not want Cody in there by himself because they thought that, I mean it didn’t happen, but boy they did everything in their power to make sure they kept that moving, they did not allow the audience a chance to start chanting or anything like that, it was just back-and-forth. It was designed to give the audience no chance to chant that because of the feeling that if they did it would hurt Cody’s momentum,” Meltzer added. “And perhaps it would, and then it could create that groundswell which is exactly what they don’t want right now, but it didn’t happen. It was a little on the flat side.”
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