10 Things We Learned From Sami Zayn On Talk Is Jericho

6. The Ladder Match

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Zayn confirms that he’s been involved in multi-man matches as well as ladder bouts in the past but nothing like the one at WrestleMania 32.

He and Chris laugh about what an odd choice it was to have seven performers instead of an even number which made it quite different and difficult since you didn’t always have someone to pair off with.

In terms of working in such a large stadium environment, he actually didn’t hear the crowd at all when his music first hit until they started singing along with it, which obviously got him pretty excited.

The moment that really got him fired up was when KO’s music kicked in, and for some reason he started shouting out curse words to get himself amped up, a habit he's continued since.

The cool thing about a match like this is the amount of time you spend lying around selling letting your opponents work gives you an opportunity to sit back and actually take in your surroundings. There were several times when he would be down after taking a move and would look up at the screen and just appreciate what was going on in the ring, something he’s never been able to experience before.

Multi-man matches are fun because everyone gets a chance to work together and give their input to create something fun and unique.

Chris says that when you work the big stadium shows you no longer see the crowd as a sea of individual people but rather one large, living entity.

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