Sami Zayn Wants To Honor Bret Hart's Legacy After WWE RAW Segment

10/09/2024 17:31

Sami Zayn was honored to be a part of Bret Hart’s segment on this week’s RAW, and intends to honor the legacy of the Canadian icon.

On RAW, Hart was confronted by GUNTHER, who declared that the Hitman is his second favorite wrestler, behind Bill Goldberg.

GUNTHER brawled with Sami during the segment. On “WWE RAW Talk,” Sami spoke about what it meant to appear with Hart. He said,

"You actually caught me at a really strange time because I'm feeling really emotional, to be honest. I'm wearing this jersey, not because I'm a Flames fan, everyone knows I'm a Canadiens guy, but to honor Johnny Gaudreau, who tragically passed away.

“I don't know, it just makes you think about the time you have here and what you do with it, and to be able to share the ring with [Bret Hart], he was my hero growing up. To share the ring with him in Calgary, the significance, it's not lost on me. So I'm in a really strange kind of head space. But listening to him talk also kind of lit a fire under me. To hear him talk about what it meant to be a champion, and a Canadian champion.

“Listening to him, I realized, man, we haven't had that in a long time, and I want it to be me. I want it to be me. I want to honor his legacy. I want to honor the template that he laid out for guys like me. So Gunther's got something that, as far as I'm concerned, it's on borrowed time because I'm coming. I'm coming for the World Heavyweight Championship.”

On last week’s episode of WWE RAW, Zayn issued a challenge to GUNTHER for a title match but was rejected by the WWE World Heavyweight Champion.

Zayn is one of a handful of men to pin GUNTHER since the Austrian joined WWE. He dethroned GUNTHER as Intercontinental Champion at WrestleMania 40.

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