10 Positive Developments In This AWFUL Post-WWE WrestleMania 35 Season
2. Sami Zayn
Sami Zayn is a delight in an insufferable heel role he has somehow intensified following his absence from injury. It is so searing, so scathing, that he can only have set up his Syrian mobile clinic purely as a means of making you feel like the piece of sh*t that you are.
This work dread gimmick is gold.
It is so effective that, halfway through Zayn's "psychology lesson" this week, your writer caught himself, quite annoyed, wondering how smart it was to lay into the audience with such venom. Wondering how a WWE performer, of all people, could blame the paying audience for criticising a company that ritually invites it. Wondering how a progressive human being could layer his performance with a not inconsiderable, siege mentality authenticity that must come from mangling your body on a RAW show everybody absolutely hates.
Sami Zayn boomed me, and he is booming, to use language he can actually get away with under his unique delivery, "each and every one of you". Were a less talented wrestler, and most are, to have arrived on the scene to blast his face in, even those who highly rate Zayn would have roared in bloodlust.
This is tremendously grating heel work.