Rami Sebei, more famous as Sami Zayn, is a Canadian professional wrestler
Sami Zayn
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Jul 12, 1984
Biography
Personal Details
- Birthday: July 12, 1984
- Nationality: Canadian
- Famous: Professional Wrestler, Sportspersons, Wrestlers, WWE Wrestlers
- Known as: Rami Sebei
- Birth Place: Laval, Quebec
- Height: 185cm
- Gender: Male
Sami Zayn born at
Laval, Quebec
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Birth Place
Not much is known about Sebei’s personal and love life. Some sources, however, mention that he is married to a woman called Deeja.
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Personal Life
The talented wrestler has gained considerable popularity on social media where his Twitter account, ‘SamiZayn,’ has garnered an incredible count of over 1.09 million followers and his Instagram account, ‘samizayn,’ too has massive number of followers.
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Personal Life
He established the ‘Sami for Syria’ fund in July 2017 to back the non-profit, non-political, professional organization, the ‘Syrian American Medical Society’ (or SAMS) and has till present raised more than $91,000 for it.
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Personal Life
Rami Sebei was born on July 12, 1984, in Laval, Quebec, Canada, into a Muslim family, who had immigrated to Canada from Syria in the 1970s. He is fluent in Arabic, English, and French.
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Childhood & Early Life
He took wrestling training from Patty the Kid, Savio Vega and Jerry Tuite.
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Childhood & Early Life
Rami Sebei made his pro wrestling debut with the Montreal-based professional wrestling promotion, ‘International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS),’ as "The Generic Luchador" El Generico on July 14, 2002 at ‘Scarred For Life.’
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Career
On June 15, 2004, during the 5th anniversary show ‘V’ of IWS, he won his first IWS World Heavyweight Championship title against PCO. He followed it up with a second title on February 16, 2008, at ‘Violent Valentine’ beating Kevin Steen (presently performing in Raw brand of WWE under ring name Kevin Owens).
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Career
As the members of the IWS began performing in the US in 2004, Sebei garnered attention from American independent professional wrestling promotion, ‘Pro Wrestling Guerrilla’ (PWG) and eventually became a PWG regular.
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His feats with PWG include two PWG World Championships, and five PWG World Tag Team Championships (Human Tornado on August 6, 2005; Quicksilver on December 2, 2006; Kevin Steen on July 29, 2007, and March 21, 2008; and Paul London on May 9, 2010). He became the only man in the promotion’s history to hold both the World and World Tag Team titles at the same time, two times.
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He is the sole performer to take part in the first eight Battle of Los Angeles (the BOLA) tournaments of PWG starting from 2005. He won the BOLA pinning Steen on August 20, 2011. He also won the Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament on May 9, 2010, with Paul London as the ‘¡Peligro Abejas!’. With this he became only person to win both the annual tournaments of PWG.
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