NEWS - New Champion Crowned On SmackDown! Johnny Knoxville Added To WrestleMania! Pat McAfee's Mania Opponent Revealed?!
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🗓️ 5 March 2022
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Today's wrestling news, including...
New Champion Crowned On SmackDown!
Johnny Knoxville Added To WrestleMania!
Pat McAfee's Mania Opponent Revealed?!
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| 0:00.0 | On today's wrestling news, we've got a new champion crowned on SmackDown. |
| 0:13.3 | Knoxville is heading to WrestleMania. |
| 0:16.1 | And Pat McAfee's WrestleMania opponent has been announced, are you ready, are you ready |
| 0:21.6 | for the news time? |
| 0:22.6 | It's my name, it's Bill Chambers, and I'm joined by Gareth to talk all things wrestling |
| 0:26.8 | but before we get into it, make sure you like the video, comment down below what you think |
| 0:29.4 | of all of today's stories, subscribe to the channel and links to each stories in the |
| 0:32.8 | time stamps in the description. |
| 0:34.6 | Click them and off you go, but first up, last night on SmackDown, we had an Intercontinental |
| 0:39.0 | Championship match between Sami Zayn, obviously the current champion, well, the ex champion, |
| 0:44.9 | and Ricochet who beat him to become the new Intercontinental Champion to a huge pop |
| 0:51.5 | from the crowd, so hopefully lots of people get behind him for this one because they've |
| 0:54.4 | done nothing with him for far too long, so I'm quite excited about him actually getting |
| 0:59.2 | a bit of a push for a change. |
| 1:01.3 | So this was Sami Zayn's first title defense in this current run of the Intercontinental |
| 1:05.8 | Championship. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm Ricochet's first win of the Intercontinental title as well, which interestingly makes him |
| 1:11.6 | the first guy to hold all three of WWE secondary titles with obviously the US Championship |
| 1:17.5 | and the North American Championship as well. |
| 1:19.8 | Yeah, that's an interesting one, but how did he win? |
| 1:24.2 | I hear you ask, well, I'm close, it was with interference, why wouldn't it be Johnny |
| 1:30.1 | Knoxville was obviously there, and he caused a bit of a distraction, and Ricochet did |
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