2017 WWE Superstar Shake-Up Ranked - From Worst To Best

6. Sami Zayn

Sami Zayn
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Where Kevin Owens goes, Sami Zayn invariably follows. Or maybe that should be where Zayn goes, Owens follows, but the point remains the same. The men formerly known as Kevin Steen and El Generico are as inseparable as inseparable gets. Fans rolled their eyes when they were drafted to RAW together, and those same eyes went a little further back when Zayn came out to interrupt Owens back on 11 April.

Oh how wrong we were. Zayn did little more than tread water for the first few months of his tenure on SmackDown, picking up losses against Mike Kanellis (remember him?), Jinder Mahal, and Aiden English along the way. It seemed for all the world as though Zayn’s immense talent was being wasted, until the man took it upon himself to pull Owens out of the way of a falling Shane McMahon.

It is no exaggeration to say that Sami Zayn has been a total revelation as a heel. For months it looked like the move to SmackDown was a major mistake for Zayn, but now it looks like it could very well have been career salvation.

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