10 Common Misconceptions About Modern Day WWE

5. Sami Zayn Is Being Buried

Sami Zayn hasn’t had the best of times since overcoming Kevin Owens at Battleground. The duo put on an excellent match, but Zayn has regularly missed weeks of TV since then, and hadn’t been put back into a prominent storyline until a couple of weeks ago. While Kevin Owens became Universal Champion, Zayn became an afterthought, and it’s still a tough pill for his supporters to swallow.

Zayn is a fantastic wrestler, and the company’s most natural underdog male babyface. His in ring work is second to none, and he’s absolutely capable of delivering on the biggest stages. He’s still not treated as a genuine superstar, however, and after spending the past month or so being continually beaten from pillar to post by Braun Strowman, many fans have taken to throwing the dreaded B-word around.

Sami Zayn is far from buried, however: in fact, this role is absolutely perfect for him. Zayn winning every other week would remove everything that made him special in the first place, and he has always been at his best when working from beneath. Sami is a scrappy, courageous performer who gets knocked down a lot, but always gets back up, and that’s why people rally behind him.

If Sami was winning every week, he’d be “just another guy.” His feuds with Neville and Owens stand as his two WWE career highpoints, and both featured complete dominance from the antagonists prior to Zayn’s eventual victory. Great hardship produces great victories, and history suggests that his next ascendency angle is only just around the corner.