WWE NXT Champion Sami Zayn was promoting WWE’s upcoming tour of Abu Dhabi and got a chance to speak with TheNational.ae.
Zayn talked about winning the NXT title, beating Adrian Neville for the championship, a possible NXT match at Wrestlemania 31, and more. You can read a few excerpts below:
Sami Zayn talks winning the NXT title:
It was huge for me on so many levels, professionally and personally. I don’t even know how to begin to put it into words, but it was definitely a career highlight for me. The match was one of my favourites of my career against one of my all-time best opponents in Adrian Neville, who I have known for years and years, so it is a really huge deal for me to be the NXT champion.
In the interests of full disclosure, from a personal perspective, when I came here, there is a lot of doubts on how are you will do, because I came from an independent wrestling background, and you are not sure what kind of deal you are going to get. So, for me this is a big symbol of having kind of thrived in this kind of environment in WWE on the NXT level and makes me very confident in that next step forward on to the main roster I think I can do just as well as I have down in NXT. It is very important to me and it means a lot.
Sami on the idea of a NXT match at Wrestlemania 31:
Obviously it goes without saying that it would be a dream come true to perform at WrestleMania. I really don’t know. I’ve heard rumours, but I put very little stock into them. But a small part of me feels as great as it would be to be on WrestleMania, you know the likelihood if we were featured in that kind of light, would be probably a five-minute showcase and that is not how you envision your WrestleMania debut.
But listen, a WrestleMania debut is a WrestleMania debut, especially if you are defending a championship at WrestleMania. It would be awesome, it goes without saying. But I would hopefully envision a time when I can be at WrestleMania in a bigger role.
For more with Sami Zayn, including his thoughts on returning to Abu Dhabi, growing up as a Syrian Canadian, his dream opponent on the WWE roster and more, click here.
