Sami Zayn is a Muslim.
The Canadian professional wrestler Sami Zayn is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand and is a member of The Bloodline.
Before joining WWE, he wrestled for Ring of Honor under the ring name El Generico, using the character of a luchador from Mexico with the catchphrase “Olé!” Zayn wrestled while masked from his debut in 2002 until 2013.
After signing with WWE, he began wrestling without a mask, eventually winning the NXT Championship while in WWE’s developmental brand NXT, and after being promoted to the main roster, he would become a three-time Intercontinental Champion.
Zayn achieved much success in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) as a two-time PWG World Champion and five-time 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.
He has also 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 is also a two-time IWS World Heavyweight Champion for the Montreal-based International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS).
Internationally, Zayn has won the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship in Germany and DDT Pro-Wrestling’s KO-D Openweight Championship in Japan.