DALLAS — During his illustrious career, Sami Zayn has gone toe-to-toe with WWE’s toughest and most dangerous Superstars, but none of those battles could have prepared The Master Strategist for the perils of facing “Jackass Forever” star and world-renowned risktaker Johnny Knoxville in an Anything Goes Match.
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The Master Strategist proposed the stipulation thinking it’d allow him to punish his nemesis unencumbered by rules, and the plan worked … at least, until pyrotechnics, a gigantic mousetrap and a variety of other “Jackass”-inspired weapons entered the mix.
Zayn uncorked a Helluva Kick as soon as the bell rang, and within minutes he was trashing “The South Knoxville Strong Boy” with implements ranging from a cookie sheet to a crutch.
Knoxville, however, came prepared, and the lawless conditions played into his hands. “The South Knoxville Strong Boy” found help in the form of his “Jackass” buddies. Chris “Party Boy” Pontius caused a distraction by ripping off his track jacket to reveal a denim thong. Though Zayn removed Pontius from the equation soon after, he was caught off-guard by Wee Man, who emerged from under the ring to deliver a flurry of punches and a body slam before being Helluva Kicked.
The trickery didn’t end there. With Zayn perched on the top rope, Knoxville set off pyrotechnics attached to the ring post, causing Zayn to take a nasty tumble. Knoxville then led Zayn straight into a painful high five from an oversized hand at ringside, a prank instantly recognizable to any longtime “Jackass” viewer.
The Master Strategist regained the edge and again went to the top, only for Knoxville to throw him off the ropes and through a ringside table covered in mousetraps. After shocking Zayn with a taser, Knoxville scored the winning fall by placing his foe on a massive mousetrap and unhinging the mechanism to pin Zayn in a WrestleMania first.
