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“Sami Zayn does not belong anywhere near the WWE world
heavyweight championship. You know it and I know it! I know it better than
anybody else! Sami Zayn has been riding my coattails for over a decade, because the fact is he’s not good enough to make it on his own. Sami Zayn is an
absolute waste–”
Sami Zayn’s first WWE promo against Cesaro, currently a heel who’s haranguing the audience in a variety of languages, May 22 2013 (Thanks to @ayrabmoozlum for helping me with the Arabic transliteration and letting me know it means “You wanna fight?” in a Syrian dialect of Arabic).
This promo hits me hard for a couple of reasons:
- First, the sheer delight of having Sami Zayn–well-known for having spoken exactly zero languages fluently in public for over a decade–casually speak three languages in his very first appearance.
- Second, the most important moment and sentence in this promo, the one that sets the tone for Sami’s character from here on in: when he smiles at the audience and says “Let’s change this here.” He could have looked at Cesaro and said “Oh, you don’t speak Arabic? I’ll change it then.” But instead he addresses the audience, he includes them: let’s. With one word he pulls in the crowd, makes them part of something bigger, something better, something kinder–a world where knowing “a bunch of languages” isn’t automatically a bullying heel thing, a world where it’s normal and good to be fluent in Arabic and French. “Let’s” is Sami’s most powerful word–he uses it at the beginning of his most important promo, after his championship win: “Let’s talk,” he says. “Let’s talk about what this means.” He doesn’t talk at the audience, he talks with them. How effortlessly he gathers us up, how gently he makes us part of a wider, more thoughtful world.
Generico’s goal in wrestling and my goal in wrestling were very similar. Then my goal changed because I got married and I got a kid, and I felt like my life was changing, and he stayed on that goal. He always stayed on this path. Now my goal has changed again because of how my life has changed, but I didn’t concentrate my efforts toward that goal. (Kevin Steen in 2013, shortly after Sami Zayn debuted in WWE).
“That’s so nice!” Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn meet for the first time in a broadcast singles match in the WWE.
El Generico and Colt Cabana confront Kevin Steen and Steve Corino, Ring of Honor 2010 | Sami Zayn and Neville confront Kevin Owens, WWE 2016.
Sami Zayn mentally prepares for his 2014 NXT championship match with Adrian Neville by fist-bumping a half-gallon of milk and sharing a long look with Kevin Owens–in their first moment sharing the screen in the WWE.
Places Sami Zayn fits in:
1. Monday Night Raw
2. The WWE Hall of Fame
3. All of our hearts
Kevin Steen & El Generico, Ring of Honor | Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn, WWE Battleground
“Some
of you may not know me, so let me introduce myself. I’m WWE superstar Sami Zayn.”