This Sunday, June 16, The Celtic Warrior battles “The Duke of Decency” in a collision of medieval nicknames worthy of “Game of Thrones.” Tune in to the free Kickoff to Payback when it streams live at 7:30 ET/4:30 PT to see heated rivals Sheamus and Damien Sandow settle their differences inside the squared circle!
The past several weeks on SmackDown, in his role as WWE’s self-proclaimed “Intellectual Savior of the Masses,” Sandow posed cerebral challenges in an effort to demonstrate that brains are superior to brawn. Answering the call in contests of mental fortitude such as “Gordian’s Knot,” the Thimblerig Challenge and even a game of chess against the famed super computer “Deep Blue,” Sheamus used his common sense, good humor and no-nonsense physicality in an effort to thwart the smarmy Sandow and his (sometimes rigged) puzzles.
Now that the mental games are over and the stage is set for Sheamus and Sandow to clash in the squared circle, what can the WWE Universe expect from this highly anticipated Kickoff to Payback contest? As one of the most powerful, aggressive Superstars on the WWE roster —in addition to being a three-time World Champion, a former King of the Ring and the 2012 Royal Rumble Match winner —Sheamus is well established as a brawling WWE fan-favorite who hits like a truck. Any match involving The Celtic Warrior is guaranteed to be a hard-hitting, bruising contest, and his opponent’s pompous boasts assure a very motivated Sheamus on Sunday.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Sandow is a true renaissance man who oozes sophistication as one of WWE’s most cultured and refined competitors. “The Lord of Literacy” is never shy to wax poetic about his intellectual and moral superiority. Although the topic of his bragging is often his incredible brainpower, Sandow is also a major threat in the ring, where time and again he has proven to be cagey, opportunistic and dangerous, as was on display when Sandow stunned Sheamus with a brutal attack on the June 7 episode of SmackDown. The arrogant academic will surely need those qualities—and all his wits —when he goes one-on-one with The Celtic Warrior at WWE Payback.
Will WWE’s “Intellectual Savior” usher in a new age of enlightenment at Chicago’s Allstate Arena and confirm that the brain is indeed mightier than brawn? Or will Sheamus prove to the overconfident, haughty Sandow that the problem with having such a big head is that it makes an easy target for a Brogue Kick? Find out when the Kickoff to Payback streams live on WWE.com, the WWE App, YouTube, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, Samsung SMART TVs, Google+, Pinterest, Pheed and Xbox 360 this Sunday, June 16, at 7:30 ET/4:30 PT!
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