Sami Zayn On Not Touching Shinsuke Nakamura Before Takeover, Pain In His Shoulder, Main Roster, More

Source: Talk Is Jericho

On episode 242 of Talk Is Jericho, ‘The Ayatollah Of Rock ‘n’ Rolla’ Chris Jericho interviewed former NXT Champion Sami Zayn. During the podcast, Zayn claimed that he does not know whether his WWE Monday Night RAW match against John Cena last May was meant to be his official call up to WWE’s main roster. Zayn mentioned that he still suffers pain in his surgically repaired shoulder and also talked about his NXT TakeOver: Dallas match against Shinsuke Nakamura.

According to Zayn, he still does not know whether his US Championship match against Cena on the May 4, 2015 episode of RAW was intended to be his main roster call up.

“I still don’t know, to this day, if that was meant to be a debut. We’ll never know because of the way it all went down. Well, I knew I was doing the match, but I don’t know if that was the plan for me to stick around. Yeah, I had heard that it might have been a one-off, yeah.” Zayn added, “you know how quick things change around here and how uncertain things are. So, at the time, I was talking to [Triple H] and I was trying to feel him out, which, if you ever do talk to Hunter about this, I mean, it [has] been three years of me trying to feel him out and I’m really bad at poker. I have no pokerface. I’m bad at fishing for information.”

Zayn said that he wanted to avoid having surgery; however, WWE officials advised him to have the surgery. Zayn went on to state that he is still experiencing pain in his bad shoulder.

“They were really big on me getting surgery and Hunter’s like, ‘get the surgery’ and I’m trying to go every other route but surgery. And then, I was wrestling Kevin [Owens] in my last match. It was for the NXT Championship in NXT and I go to just throw him into the stairs and my shoulder popped out and popped right back in really quickly. And, in that moment, I said, ‘maybe I need the surgery’. And that was it. I got surgery. It was a torn labrum and torn rotator cuff. Yeah, the worst part is actually now, almost a year later.” Zayn continued, “if I try to hug myself, it’s really painful still. But whatever. I think another thing I didn’t know …

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