Sami Zayn shocked the WWE Universe when he defeated Cody Rhodes and GUNTHER to turn into Undisputed WWE Champion at Night of Champions in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, earning his first world title in WWE. Despite Zayn working more heel over the previous couple of months, fans were thrilled for him, as were his fellow WWE stars and others outside of the corporate. Considered one of those stars who wished Zayn well was John Cena, who Zayn admitted to ESPN Latest York he was surprised to listen to from.
“He sent me a message and he just form of jogged my memory of the problem of accomplishing this, and lower than one percent of people that ever aspire to do what we do ever gets up to now, and that is not lost on me,” Zayn said. “But, to listen to it coming from him, just saying, ‘Congratulations.’ Considered one of the things he said that also really touched me was, ‘You already know, that is genuinely earned…’ The thing that stuck to me is just that he said to me, ‘You probably did it your way.’ Man, I just thought that was so cool coming from him.”
Zayn said it was really touching, because Cena didn’t should text him in any respect, but he did. He said “The Never Seen 17” is a “very thoughtful person” and that he believes Cena was attempting to remind him to be mindful of how difficult it’s to achieve the highest of the mountain, and that Zayn must be proud.
Before winning the Undisputed WWE Championship, Zayn captured the NXT Championship back in 2015. He can also be a former two-time United States Champion and four-time Intercontinental Champion. He held each the “Raw” and “SmackDown” Tag Team Championships alongside Kevin Owens.
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