Sami Zayn recently sat down with Chris Jericho on Talk Is Jericho. Among many topics of discussion, Zayn talked about Becky’s usage of social media, his new mindset and more.
On the topic of Becky Lynch, Zaym admitted that Lynch has used social media to her advantage and in a clever way. However, Zayn does not want to cut people down with social media anymore.
“I noticed Becky Lynch, who has really blown up recently too, right?” Zayn began, “And she’s using Twitter in a very witty way. She’s a very witty person. And she’s using it in a really cool way and she’s getting herself really over. But I don’t know if I would do it anymore, even if I was a heel. I wouldn’t want to use it to cut people down and stuff. But I’m like, ‘do you know what? I’m contributing to a toxic culture, to a toxic swirl of s–t and I don’t want to contribute to it anymore.'”
Zayn is worried how his new mindset will mesh with the WWE culture, as he has learned a lot about himself while being on the shelf due to injury.
“That’s something I’m concerned about, yes. Absolutely. Dude, you’re so right and I’ve got to tell you it’s very funny that you should ask me that because that [has] actually been one of the big [questions]. And this isn’t me burying the company, but it’s the culture of the company. It’s the culture of showbiz and succeeding and just the concept of ambition and ego and it’s all dressed up. We use very nice words to dress up some pretty ugly things. Like being ambitious, it’s a good quality, but you can use that as an excuse to be an egotistical piece of garbage. Do whatever you’ve got to do, but justify it by saying, ‘oh, that’s just business.’ So yeah, it’s very funny because [Jericho has] been touching on something that I’ve been thinking about a lot.”
Zayn also said WWE writers should not be criticized by fans as they do, since the system is complex in WWE and those who are not in the system simply don’t understand.
“Man, people don’t know and you don’t know unless you’re there [in WWE] Not to do with nothing, but I want to take this time to actually give the writers a little bit of a break because they get crapped on the most. People don’t understand how it works there. It’s not the writers, and it’s not the agents, and it’s not the talent. It just works a very specific way. And unless you’re in it, you don’t know, so it’s very easy to sit at home and go, ‘why are they pushing this person? Why are they doing this?’ It’s harder than you think. Cut everybody some slack. It’s tricky.”
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h/t to Wrestling Inc for the transcription.
