{"id":568274,"date":"2026-03-29T08:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568274\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T08:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:41:12","slug":"sami-zayns-united-states-title-win-over-carmelo-hayes-receives-negative-feedback-from-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568274\/","title":{"rendered":"Sami Zayn&#8217;s United States title win over Carmelo Hayes receives negative feedback from fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As seen during the March 27th 2026 edition of WWE SmackDown, Sami Zayn defeated Carmelo Hayes to capture the WWE United States title. Zayn will now defend his championship against Trick Williams at WrestleMania 42.<\/p>\n<p>Zayn\u2019s win over Carmelo drew a notably negative reaction on YouTube, with the video receiving 12,000 dislikes compared to 8,000 likes. Fan backlash was evident in the comments, with viewers writing, \u201cSo we just couldn\u2019t do Carmelo VS Trick at Mania my gosh man\ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffd\u200d\u2642\ufe0f,\u201d \u201cPoor Carmelo Hayes \ud83d\udc94\ud83d\ude2d\ud83e\udd7a,\u201d \u201cThe \u2018underdog\u2019 strikes again,\u201d and \u201cRuthless Depression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The episode of SmackDown has an overall rating of just 1.74 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagematch.net\/?id=1&amp;nr=443882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cagematch.net<\/a> wrestling database.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As seen during the March 27th 2026 edition of WWE SmackDown, Sami Zayn defeated Carmelo Hayes to capture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,134417,75,30285],"class_list":{"0":"post-568274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-carmelo-hayes","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-sami-zayn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}