#4 Is Sami Zayn’s ‘underdog’ gimmick being over played?
Sami Zayn's clean victory over Baron Corbin last night was a legitimate surprise. It feels like the company are doing more with Corbin than they are with Zayn at the moment, and one just assumed this match would be a springboard for Corbin to go after one of the main singles titles. It was obviously a nice feel good moment to see Sami win clean here, but I was somewhat put off with how shocked the commentators were trying to sound.
Sami Zayn is the 'underdog', but that shouldn't mean seeing him win is always this great curveball. There are many people in the WWE Universe still holding out hope that Zayn will be WWE Champion one day, and you can't get him there by always having fluke, unexpected wins that nobody can believe. For anyone who has followed the career of Zayn pre-WWE, they will know he is one of the best workers in the world right now and is more than capable of beating somebody like Baron Corbin on a good day.
It's a balancing act with Zayn at the moment. Have him win too often and you ruin the underdog gimmick that fans love to get behind, have him lose too often and you run the risk of losing him in the mid-card shuffle for the rest of his career. Maybe one way to start moving him in the right direction is to stop making it feel like such a fantasy that he manages to defeat somebody who isn't that much stronger or bigger than him. Time to tone it down, WWE.
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