Sami Zayn’s popularity in WWE has risen in recent years under the creative leadership of Vince McMahon and Triple H.
Zayn has held countless championships in WWE, including the NXT, Tag Team, and now the Intercontinental, after dethroning GUNTHER as the IC Champ at WrestleMania XL last month. One belt evading him is the World Title, whether Raw’s World Heavyweight Title or the WWE Championship on SmackDown.
While speaking with the Daily Mail, Zayn discussed why he thinks his chances of being a World Champion in WWE were higher under McMahon’s leadership than Triple H. It all comes down to Triple H taking the long-term approach of booking with calculated decisions, while McMahon was notorious for making changes on the fly and sometimes hours before a show went live.
‘I think Vince saw me much more as a bad guy, for a number of reasons. He saw my irksome qualities, which he thought lent itself to being an irksome character. Having said that, I think things were a lot more unpredictable because of the nature of Vince’s week-to-week kind of approach, that sometimes the marble would just fall in the right hole, and now you’re champion, whereas with Hunter, I think it’s much more he has longer-term vision, and if you’re not part of that vision, then the chances of breaking into that vision are much, much slimmer.
Zayn called it a double-edged sword, as Triple H may see him in a way that lends him to being in the mix while, on the other hand, he could win the World Title after slipping on a banana peel. Either way, he tries to do his best and hopes that one day he will be a WWE Champion.
