During a recent appearance on The Cheap Heat podcast with Peter Rosenborg, Sami Zayn commented on if he could see his El Generico character making its way to WWE.
When quizzed on the El Generico character, Zayn would explain how he appreciates the fondness people have for his past. But, also stated that he doesn’t believe the characters he has played in the past exist anymore:
“I think people have a fondness for the past. It’s kind of normal that I get asked questions about past incarnations or past things in my career, ‘will we see this again?’ Some fans, and I take this as a positive because they have a lot of fondness towards my good guy days in NXT. And there is a kinship there and they felt a connection to that character. I’ll get messages saying, ‘When are we going to get that guy back?’ Well, that guy doesn’t exist anymore.
“If the Beatles, if they were all alive, if they came back now, you can’t recapture what you had in the 60s. It would be the Beatles of today playing songs from the 60s… it’s lightning in a bottle. Everything is a product of time and place. Sometimes, you have to look at things that existed in that time and place and appreciate them for what they were and kind of wish that they wouldn’t come back because if they did come back, they wouldn’t be the same. Nothing is the same. It’s all a product of when and where it existed.”
Would you like to have seen El Generico return one last time? Or do you prefer the unmasked Sami Zayn? Let us know in the comments below!
