9 Things WWE Fans Need To Know About Zack Sabre Jr.
2. He Has Wrestled Numerous WWE Superstars
Zack Sabre Jr. has travelled the length and breadth of the world honing and perfecting his craft, with extensive wrestling done on his part in Europe, North America and Asia. Along the way he has run into a vast number of wrestlers who now earn their money in WWE, including Shinsuke Nakamura, Finn Balor, AJ Styles, Sami Zayn and more.
It was his battle with recently-retired Daniel Bryan way back in 2008 that put Sabre on the map for the very first time however. He was just 21 at the time, and the then-Bryan Danielson proceeded to give Sabre a true lesson in technical wrestling, but the younger fighter managed to stay in the fight and the two put on a Match of the Year candidate.
In more beautiful wrestling symmetry, Sabre would go on to win the Wrestling Observer Bryan Danielson award for 2014 and 2015, given to the Best Technical Wrestler on the planet (Danielson won it for the previous nine years on the trot).