After twelve years wrestling on the independent scene worldwide following his departure from Mexico in 2002, lucha libre legend El Generico hung up his boots for good in January 2013. Retiring with good grace and a minimum of nagging injuries, the luchador confirmed to his dozens (and dozens) of fans worldwide that he would be leaving Montreal, his home of the previous decade, and returning to Tijuana to look after the orphans he'd left behind all those years ago. https://youtu.be/oiG55s1xs0o?t=3m Fortunately, like every other Mexican wrestling great, El Generico had trained a protégé, a man to carry his mantle into the next generation. That man was Sami Zayn, a Montreal native who signed with WWE and has recently been lighting it up in their developmental brand NXT, and occasionally on Monday Night RAW. Zayn inherited many if not most of his mentor's signature moves. He still uses them as a sign of respect, prompting a fair few diehard El Generico fans to shout "Ole!" at him on occasion in tribute to the master. There are those who assert that Zayn is simply El Generico himself only slightly buffed up and sans mask. Well, that doesn't make any sense. Sami Zayn is a ginger Canadian of Arabic extraction, while El Generico is a Mexican from, erm, Mexico. Besides, you're forgetting about the orphans. Who's going to look after them if Generico goes off to wrestle again, Kevin Steen? Stuff and nonsense.
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