Sami Zayn

Sami Zayn
Zayn in 2023
Birth name	Rami Sebei
Born	(1984-07-12) July 12, 1984 (age 40) Laval, Quebec, Canada
Spouse(s)	Khadijah Sebei ​ (m. 2018)​ [1]
Children	1
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Big Larry[2] El Generico[3] Rami Sebei[4] Sami Zayn[5] Stevie McFly[4]
Billed height	6 ft 1 in (185 cm)[5]
Billed weight	212 lb (96 kg)[5]
Billed from	Montreal, Quebec, Canada[5] Tijuana, Mexico[3]
Trained by	Jerry Tuite[6] Savio Vega[6]
Debut	March 1, 2002[7]

Rami Sebei (Arabic: رامي سباعي; born July 12, 1984) is a Canadian professional wrestler signed to WWE since January 2013^[update], where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Sami Zayn. He is the current WWE Intercontinental Champion in his fourth reign.

Sebei made his professional wrestling debut in 2002 under the ring name Stevie McFly. Prior to joining WWE, he competed for Montreal-based promotion International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS), where he became a two-time IWS World Heavyweight Champion, and would achieve breakout success in the United States with Los Angeles-based promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) and then-Philadelphia-based promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), all under the ring name El Generico, using the character of a luchador from Mexico with the catchphrase "Olé!"^[8] He wrestled while masked from 2002 until 2013. During his time in PWG, Sebei became a two-time PWG World Champion and five-time PWG World Tag Team Champion. He is the only person to have won both of PWG's annual tournaments, the Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament in 2010 and the Battle of Los Angeles in 2011. In ROH, he held the ROH World Television Championship and the ROH World Tag Team Championship as part of a team with Kevin Steen, with whom he later earned the 2010 Feud of the Year award from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. He has also performed in Chikara and Evolve. Having wrestled internationally, Sebei competed in Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) in Germany, where he won the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship, and also competed in Japan for DDT Pro-Wrestling and Dragon Gate (as well as its American branch), having won the KO-D Openweight Championship in the former promotion.

Upon signing with WWE in 2013 and taking on the ring name Sami Zayn, he began wrestling without a mask in WWE's developmental brand NXT, eventually winning the NXT Championship. After being promoted to the main roster, he would become a four-time Intercontinental Champion. Starting in 2022, his popularity with fans would begin to skyrocket thanks to his critically acclaimed work with The Bloodline faction.^[9] In addition to his WWE accomplishments, Sebei also wrestled in the main event of several pay-per-view events, including WrestleMania 39, where he became one half of the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions (the Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships) alongside longtime best friend Kevin Owens.