Wasted: Sami Zayn vs. the WWE Intercontinental Champion Imperium's Walter [with Ludwig Kaiser & Giovanni Vinci;] Singles Match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship at WWE WrestleMania XL/40/2024: Night 1 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Wasted: Sami Zayn vs. the WWE Intercontinental Champion Imperium's Walter [with Ludwig Kaiser & Giovanni Vinci;] Singles Match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship at WWE WrestleMania XL/40/2024: Night 1 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

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Let's get this done: I strongly dislike everything situated around this match, including Sami Zayn being put in this spot incident of Chad Gable or even a mystery opponent would have been better, the build up to this match [segments of training] and I really don't like how things went down at this event.

They really had to devalue Walter as I have made reference to in the connecting content; if he is the ring general then why is he consistently talking to Zayn, it really does go against what we have been told about Walter and indeed Imperium. Then what the hell was this whole Zayn powering up like a DragonBall-Z character after taking quite a few powerbombs and big splashes from the top turnbuckle; there is a thing called protecting a move such as powerbomb especially from Walter and then the big splash, it just infuriates so much, then we have Zayn performing this version of a brain buster on the top turnbuckle.

When we all know that if Oh I don't know if another promotion did this spot [Cough, Cough AEW] everyone would be outraged.

So giving Zayn in this most privileged to overthrow the longest reigning WWE Intercontinental Champion [666 day reign,] is nothing but a massive misstep by Triple H, basically this whole situation feels very rushed and not given the respect it deserves. I mean if the longest reigning Intercontinental champion in WWF/WWE history isn't worth really investing time and energy into then why give Walter that long reign in the first place? Because he put it back where it rightly deserves alongside the main event Championships and then you pull this garbage. I mean if it had to be Zayn then they should have given it more time establish things.

It is almost like they spent too much time on The Bloodline saga which on a quick on a quick side note looks to be continuing; which I know, I know we wanted long term storytelling, but come on you have ran this into the ground, I mean I checked out a long time ago. I was so much more interested in Walter with the WWE Intercontinental Championship. It must be coming through clear by now throw my ramblings that I really was not happy with any of this situation as it relates to Walter basically in comparison this momentous occasion/championship drop felt like an afterthought and consequently all that is positive potential outcomes went out of the window. So to finish off this content we had this momentous situation end on a sour note, could you imagine if they had done this to Cody Rhodes again.