{"id":748859,"date":"2026-07-07T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/748859\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:16:08","slug":"a-friend-of-sami-zayns-and-a-cm-punk-enemy-react-to-wwe-title-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/748859\/","title":{"rendered":"A friend of Sami Zayn\u2019s and a CM Punk enemy react to WWE title change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sami Zayn&#8217;s run with the WWE championship lasted just nine days, as he was <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/457891\/cm-punk-returns-raw-chicago-wins-wwe-championship-sami-zayn-cody-rhodes-summerslam-2026\" target=\"_blank\">taken down<\/a> by a returning CM Punk in Chicago on Monday Night Raw. It perfectly sets up the long rumored\/teased Punk vs. Cody Rhodes match for SummerSlam but it leaves Zayn once again on the outside looking in, despite how fantastic his work has been during all of this, and especially in this match.<\/p>\n<p>So I gotta ask &#8212; how we feeling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sami Zayn&#8217;s run with the WWE championship lasted just nine days, as he was taken down by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,71045,4366,8316,4367],"class_list":["post-748859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-japan-pro-wrestling","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-raw","tag-wwe-smackdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}