12 New Year's Resolutions For WWE Superstars
3. Sami Zayn Resolves To Demanding He No Longer Be Portrayed As A Loser
We often hear wrestlers from the golden eras talk about how the talent can’t wait around for opportunities to come their way but instead have to make their own. “Grabbing the proverbial brass ring” is the phrase that’s most often associated with this sentiment, yet it never seems to work when anyone actually does it.
Current wrestlers claim that we’re in a totally different climate now and the talent doesn’t have the freedom to pitch ideas that they once did. While that may be true, it’s time for Sami Zayn to be assertive and shove himself headfirst through the glass ceiling.
This entire storyline with Braun Strowman has been designed to not only push Strowman but to help establish Sami as the sympathetic underdog babyface who fights against the most daunting of odds. The problem with that characterization is that he’s been treated like a child who doesn’t know what’s best for him.
Mick Foley lectures Sami Zayn like a little boy who’s angry he has to wear a helmet when riding his tricycle. There’s nothing cool or bad*ss about the way he’s been booked. In fact, it makes him look like a geek who needs to be protected because he’s too fragile for his own good.
Zayn’s resolution needs to be to stop agreeing to these dumb*ss storylines that paint him as a weakling who isn’t built for the rigors of WWE. It’s okay to be an underdog. It’s not okay to be a perennial loser.
Unless you’re James Ellsworth.