00:00Karrion Kross has been the devil on Sami Zayn's shoulder.
00:03Will Sami continue to not give it a temptation or
00:05will Kross be successful in his mission to corrupt Sami Zayn?
00:09It's the deciding match between these two, Sami Karrion, right now.
00:30I love you.
00:59A smile that you hold
01:05A silence to your mind
01:15The end is here
01:19The end is here
01:23Fall and free
01:27Fall and free
01:34Come on!
01:57The following contest is scheduled for one fall.
02:05Introducing first, accompanied by Scarlett from Sin City,
02:12we get at 265 pounds, Karrion Kross!
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02:42And for Karrion Kross tonight, it's about stopping this man.
02:49And here's your opponent from Montreal,
03:02Quebec, Canada, weighing in at 212 pounds, Sami Zayn.
03:15For how long is Karrion Kross going to carry out this vendetta?
03:19Against Sami Zayn.
03:21He promised Sami Zayn this past Monday night on Raw that tonight you are,
03:25quote, going to say the words, Kross told the truth.
03:31And in Kross's warped mind, Wade, what is that truth?
03:35Well, Kross targets liars, at least those he perceives to be liars.
03:40And in the case of Sami Zayn, he is convinced that Sami Zayn is not the model of
03:46moral purity that he portrays.
03:50That really, scratch beneath the surface of Sami Zayn, he is just like the rest of us.
03:56Wickedness resides within the soul of Sami Zayn.
04:01And that, in the eyes of Karrion Kross, is gonna get exposed here tonight at SummerSlam.
04:06And Wade, there's another layer to that as well, because we all know that Sami Zayn,
04:10he has one goal left in WWE, and that is to finally win the World Championship.
04:17Many people, Kross included, believe that Sami Zayn must develop a mean streak,
04:22a darker side, in order to finally climb the mountain and win the title.
04:26Sami has been very against that for most of his career.
04:30Well, he's also never won the World Championship in his entire career.
04:33So guess what, this is the fight game.
04:35You wanna get to the very top, you need a little hatred in your heart.
04:39And if Sami Zayn can't embrace that hatred that does exist in his heart,
04:44he will never be the champion of the world.
04:46Kross is trying to do him a favor in a very warped way.
04:49Listen, you hated a lot of people, and you never won a world title.
04:52But nonetheless, Sami Zayn ripped into the corner.
04:55That was a skill issue, not an attitude issue.
04:57And Kross now unloading.
04:59What a cheap shot.
05:00This is about Sami Zayn and Karrion Kross.
05:03And now Sami, the big right hands to Kross.
05:06And Sami starts out a bit aggressive here tonight against Karrion Kross.
05:09Sami wants to shut up Karrion once and fall.
05:11He's had enough of getting attacked with steel pipes each and every week.
05:15Karrion Kross spewing his propaganda all over the place.
05:18Sami wants to end that tonight.
05:20Well, Sami's been haunted for really months now.
05:22Initially, it was verbal whispering negativity into the ear of Sami Zayn.
05:28That didn't work, it didn't break the spirit of Zayn, who's been assaulted ever since with
05:32lead pipes.
05:33Can't break the spirit, you can't break the body.
05:36And it's a hot start here for Sami Zayn.
05:38Yeah, Sami with a moonsault off the barricade.
05:43And again, Sami Zayn with that one goal in mind.
05:46Really, the last thing he says he has left to accomplish in our business, and
05:51that's win the World Championship.
05:53It's hard to do that when someone like Karrion Kross is making you his victim week
05:57after week.
05:58One way or another, Sami Zayn needs to expunge the spectra of Karrion Kross for good.
06:04And Kross now with Sami up on his shoulders, driving Sami into the mat, cover now.
06:08Is it enough to put him away?
06:10And a kick out by Zayn.
06:12The massive power differential between these two.
06:15Sami Zayn is one hell of a mover, one hell of a technician.
06:19But he simply cannot get in a power-based slugfest with Karrion Kross.
06:24Say it!
06:26Get off this thing, say it!
06:27Now Kross to say it, say it, say it.
06:30What he wants him to say is Kross told the truth, and Sami does have a dark side.
06:41Got a deep, dark secret according to Karrion Kross that Sami's kept suppressed for
06:46many, many years.
06:47He's not a human being on planet Earth who does not have a deep, dark secret.
06:52Deep down, we are all savages.
06:54The thin veneer of civility is one that's easy to scratch off.
06:59And again, cover by Karrion Kross, hook of the leg, and a kick out.
07:03So what you're pretty much saying is that in order to get to the top of the game here,
07:08you can't be Mr. Nice Guy all the time.
07:10Boxing, UFC, kickboxing, sumo, and yes, WWE, you wanna get to the very top.
07:17This is the fight game.
07:19You have to show that.
07:21You have to have that hatred.
07:22You have to have that killer instinct.
07:24And Sami Zayn is good.
07:26He's really good.
07:27He's not been good enough to win the World Championship for that one reason.
07:32And Sami now with it.
07:33Axe Handel off the ropes.
07:35Ross, a former two-time NXT Champion.
07:38Sami's won the Intercontinental title four times in his career.
07:41NXT Championship as well.
07:43One and one at SummerSlam in his career.
07:48We know the stakes get higher and higher the closer you get to those World Championships.
07:53And that is a battle.
07:54A lot of us were not capable of breaking through.
07:57Off the suplex, hook of the leg, and Sami kicks it too.
08:00Again, Sami also trying to wash the bad tape out of his mouth from SummerSlam last year,
08:05which he lost the Intercontinental Championship to Braun Braver.
08:08Just say it, you stupid bastard.
08:10Hey, hey, hey, hey.
08:11What's the matter with you?
08:13No doubt that Karrion Kross is at me, dude.
08:15Just say it.
08:16Hey, back off, Karrion.
08:17Just say it.
08:18Just say it.
08:19One, two.
08:20Just say it.
08:21Just say it.
08:22Listen to me, man.
08:23Say it.
08:24One, two, three, hey.
08:26And then you got that witch Scarlett yelling at it as well.
08:29No, no, no.
08:30I'm not a witch.
08:31The Sinister Siren.
08:33Call her a witch call to another cheap shot.
08:36He's taking one at me and taking one at Scarlett.
08:38Now be very, very careful.
08:40There's a lot of people that have called her that, Wade.
08:42I'm just using my journalistic instincts to bring sources forward.
08:46And Sami Zayn now with the right hands pounding away on Kross.
08:49Look at Sami go.
08:54Karrion Kross smartly covering up there, blocking a lot of those shots.
08:59Sami expending a lot of energy, but he has rocked Karrion Kross now.
09:04Reversal.
09:05Sami up over the top for the leapfrog.
09:07And this is much better from Sami Zayn who simply got dragged into a turf war earlier on
09:13and is now playing to his own strengths.
09:16Sometimes you need to be slapped around a little in that ring to really wake up.
09:21Sami went for the blue thunderbomb and Kross able to counter and doomsday Saito by Karrion Kross.
09:27An ugly landing for Sami Zayn that was.
09:29Cover now on Zayn and Sami somehow gets the shoulder up.
09:33Karrion Kross could have hugged a leg there.
09:36It might have been over, but this simply isn't only about victory.
09:40This is about punishing Sami Zayn until the man cracks.
09:47Karrion Kross reaching out to Scarlett.
09:50And there's the steel pipe coming into play again tonight.
09:53The pipe that has assaulted Sami Zayn on a number of occasions here.
09:56The referee is currently unsighted checking on Sami Zayn and now there's a distract from Scarlett.
10:02Yeah, Sean Bennett does not see Kross with a steel pipe in his hand.
10:08And Sami Zayn though, blue thunderbomb off the counter.
10:12One, two, three.
10:15Near fall for Sami.
10:17Now the pipe backfired.
10:19Take another look at this with the referee distracted by Scarlett on the apron.
10:27The swing, the miss, and the blue thunderbomb that almost got the three count there.
10:33It was a delayed count from a distracted referee, and that's possibly the only reason
10:38Kross is still in the fight.
10:40This is Zayn cracking now.
10:45This is the facade for getting to break Michael Cole.
10:49Absolutely right, very aggressive, Zayn assaulting Kross in the ropes.
10:55Clearly lost it after that attempt by Kross with the lead pipe once again.
11:00Well, you can't quite blame Sami with everything he's been put through by Kross in the past few weeks.
11:05But is this Kross being proved right?
11:07Is the evil starting to seep through of Sami Zayn's soul?
11:12The referee struggling to even hold back Sami Zayn at this point.
11:16Sami's lost it.
11:20The official Sean Bennett trying to talk some sense into Sami.
11:24Sami needs to regain his composure here.
11:26Yeah, reminding him that you, uh-oh.
11:29And now Scarlett offering the weapon to Sami.
11:33Now the moment of truth for Zayn.
11:37The moral dilemma.
11:39The devil inside is coming out to play tonight.
11:45Well, Sami Zayn cross over to the dark side.
11:48At the behest of Scarlett.
11:50He says no, an emphatic no from Sami Zayn.
12:13And of course, from behind, trying to take advantage, Sami kicks.
12:19And now Zayn hooks him.
12:25Exploder dropped him on the back of his head.
12:28It's a heavy landing for Karrion Kross, who is completely rocked.
12:32Eyes just rolled on the back of his head.
12:34Paluma kick.
12:37Cover.
12:40One, two, three.
12:47Here is your winner, Sami Zayn.
12:54Sami Zayn proves that sometimes Wade, good guys, could finish first.
13:01Well, we all have an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other.
13:07But for Sami Zayn, the voice of that angel is simply too loud.
13:11And blocks out that little devil, or at least it did tonight.
13:15Sami Zayn picks up the win tonight, and a moral victory for Sami Zayn.
13:28Would Sami Zayn use the pipe?
13:30An emphatic no.
13:32Every opportunity in the world to crack and show the wickedness that lurks within.
13:38But Sami Zayn just had the moral fortitude to deny it tonight.
13:43And one halluva kick later, it was game over for Karrion Kross.
13:50Sami Zayn, with a smile on his face, relieved tonight, relieved Summerslam, victorious.
14:04And maybe, perhaps, could finally put Karrion Kross in his rearview mirror.
14:11.
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