Sami Zayn

Rami Sebei (Arabic: رامي السباعي; born July 12, 1984) is a Canadian professional wrestler. He has been signed to WWE since January 2013^[update], where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Sami Zayn.

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 achieved 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!". He wrestled while masked from 2002 to 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. Sebei also competed internationally for Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) in Germany, where he won the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship, and 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, he took on the ring name Sami Zayn and began wrestling without a mask in WWE's developmental brand NXT, where he won the NXT Championship. After being promoted to the main roster, he became a four-time WWE Intercontinental Champion, one half of the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions (consisting of the Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships) once with Kevin Owens, and a one-time United States Champion. From April 2022 to January 2023, he was involved with The Bloodline faction. In addition to his other WWE accomplishments, he also headlined several pay-per-view events, including WrestleMania 39 - Night 1.

Rami Sebei was born on July 12, 1984 in Laval, Quebec, Canada, to Syrian migrants who relocated from Homs to Laval in the 1970s.

Sebei made his professional wrestling debut on March 1, 2002, for the FLQ promotion in Quebec as Stevie McFly. On July 14, as El Generico, he made his International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS) debut at Scarred For Life in a count out victory. On October 18, 2003, at Blood, Sweat and Beers, Pierre Carl Ouellet defeated Generico and Kevin Steen in a triple threat match.

On November 15, at Payback's A Bitch, El Generico defeated Steen in their first-ever singles match against each other. IWS held its fifth-anniversary show "V" on June 15, 2004, at Le SPAG, where Generico defeated PCO to win his first IWS World Heavyweight Championship, only to have Steen cash in his number one contendership (won earlier in the night against Excess 69) and defeat Generico for the title. On September 11, at CZW High Stakes II, Generico, Steen and Excess 69 lost to SeXXXy Eddy in an IWS four-way match which was unofficially chosen as "CZW Match of the Year".

On February 16, 2008, Generico defeated Steen for the IWS World Heavyweight Championship at Violent Valentine. He lost the title on March 22, at Know Your Enemies, to Steen in a three-way match also involving Max Boyer.

In 2004, El Generico began making appearances in the independent promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). El Generico held the PWG World Tag Team Championship five times with four different partners: with Human Tornado as 2 Skinny Black Guys, Quicksilver as Cape Fear, Kevin Steen, and Paul London as ¡Peligro Abejas!. Generico is also the only participant to consecutively appear in the first eight Battle of Los Angeles tournaments from 2005. On February 24, 2007, Generico defeated former partner Tornado to win the PWG World Championship during his title run with Cape Fear. Later that year, while Generico was still World Champion, he and Steen defeated PAC and Roderick Strong for the belts.