WWE Smackdown 2/17/23 Review - SAMI ZAYN GETS INCREDIBLE WELCOME IN MONTREAL
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🗓️ 18 February 2023
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Solomonster reviews WWE Smackdown from Montreal, 24 hours before the Elimination Chamber PPV, with Sami Zayn receiving an incredible hometown welcome. It was his last chance to rally the troops before the biggest match of his life. Plus, Bray Wyatt teases his Wrestlemania program by issuing a warning to either Brock Lesnar or Bobby Lashley, and Tony Khan gets salty on Twitter about Ariel Helwani appearing on the show.
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| 0:00.0 | Smackdown tonight was in Montreal, the site of tomorrow night's elimination chamber. |
| 0:07.0 | And we got a little preview of the reaction that awaits Sammy Zane in the main event tomorrow night. |
| 0:13.0 | They teased it all throughout the show. They were telling us all night long that Sammy Zane was going to be coming home. |
| 0:19.0 | Sammy Zane was going to be addressing all of his fans. He was going to be rallying the troops. This was the big homecoming in his hometown for Sammy Zane. |
| 0:28.0 | They saved it for the very end of the show, which was smart. |
| 0:31.0 | It was a very smart thing for them to do because Sammy Zane has become a ratings draw. |
| 0:36.0 | Something very weird has happened over the last nine months or so throughout this entire bloodline storyline. |
| 0:42.0 | Sammy Zane, who has been in this company now for years and years. |
| 0:47.0 | Last year, this time, he was feuding with Johnny Knoxville in a comedy angle on TV. |
| 0:53.0 | But a funny thing has happened along the way through all of the storytelling with the bloodline angle. |
| 0:57.0 | Sammy Zane has become a ratings draw. |
| 1:00.0 | When he is on TV, the numbers go up. |
| 1:03.0 | And so it was very smart for them to save his segment for the very end of the show now. |
| 1:08.0 | Is that momentum going to continue after he loses to Roman Reigns tomorrow night? |
| 1:13.0 | That remains to be seen. |
| 1:16.0 | But I would compare tonight and the reaction that this man received to a Hogan level pop in Montreal in 2002. |
| 1:27.0 | It took me back to the Bell Center, the very building they're going to be in for elimination chamber tomorrow night and the very building they were in tonight. |
| 1:35.0 | Took me back to 2003, no way out when Stone Cold Steve Austin for the first time in seven months since he walked out on the company, made his return. |
| 1:43.0 | The glass shattered and out came Austin for his match with Eric Michelle. |
| 1:47.0 | They blew the roof off the Bell Center. |
| 1:50.0 | That's what this reminded me of tonight. |
| 1:53.0 | He came out, he came out to his old music worlds apart, which he had to. |
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