Sami Zayn Says His Shoulder Isn't Completely Healed, Talks About His Raw Debut, Rehab Process
Sami Zayn recently spoke to the Kingston Whig-Standard about his recent injury. You can check out a few highlight below, and the full interview at this link.
Injuring his shoulder:
"You just get through it if you can. For me mentally, it wasn't an option (to not finish). We were one minute in, with all this time to go on live television, millions of people watching, 15,000 people in the arena watching, my friends, my family seeing me in the biggest moment of my life ? it wasn't an option to stop. But it could have been if the injury was bad enough or if I somehow just didn't get through it, the doctors would have stopped it."
His condition:
"I still wouldn't call it 100%. I still feel some cracking and popping and whatever else. Mentally, I know it's still the bad shoulder."
His rehab process:
"There are certain things I'm not doing. I don't think anybody will really notice it, it's just little things for me, like if there's certain moves that put me in a position that I feel vulnerable in, I just won't do them at this stage. Again, I just came back and I still don't 100% feel like myself. As soon as I feel comfortable doing moves or being in those positions, I'll be back at it. For now, in the short term, yeah, I'm definitely a little more cognitive of what I'm doing. You can't help it when you get hurt. It's actually an important lesson to learn honestly as a performer."
His Raw debut:
"It was a pretty strange night. Even now when I try to think back on that night, it's a bit of a whirlwind because there were so many highs and lows. I still don't know how to process that evening."