Moments like this are exactly why I wanted Sami to win this title so much! All of his previous reigns he was a chickenshit heel--a great chickenshit heel!--but I yearned to see him defend the title like this, bold and valiant and defiant (I'm very happy).
It is genuinely so weird scrolling through the wrestling fanfiction tags, you guys write fanfiction for Australian wrestlers that I know personally. I went to so many little shows that Duke Hudson, Rhea Ripley, Bronson Reed, Adam Brooks, Robbie Eagles and Buddy Matthews wrestled at, to the point when they recognised me anytime I was at a show. And I am irl & online friends with some of them too.