BY JITU JANGIR
Without a doubt....It was one of the huge clashes when the three best of the all-time fought in a Triple threat ladder match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship at Clash of Champions (2020).##
Sami Zayn defeated Jeff Hardy (c) and AJ Styles to become the new WWE Intercontinental Champion. Sami Zayn recently spoke with FOX Sports WWE Analyst Ryan Satin about if Was it crazy for him as a long-time wrestling fan to be in a ladder match with Jeff Hardy?##
"Yeah. I was a big Hardy fan when I was younger. In Canada and Montreal, where I live, I didn’t have cable. Kevin Owens always makes fun of me for that because I won’t know about a lot of stuff from the 90s in WWE, and he’ll be like, "Were you even a fan?" I’ll be like, "We didn’t have cable!" And that’s always been my cop-out, how I didn’t have cable so I couldn’t follow all the storylines. ##
"But I was pretty obsessive, especially in ’96/’97/’98 and on, and I was a huge fan of the Hardy Boyz when they were on Shotgun Saturday Night, cause that’s what we got Saturdays at noon. ##
"We didn’t get RAW, because I didn’t have cable. So, I would watch Shotgun and the Hardyz were on Shotgun Saturday Night every week in the flannel. And I was like, "Man, who are these guys? They’re awesome. I love these guys." And they would lose every week.##
"Then, I remember one week they won and I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe it. I was so happy. Then I think what opened my eyes, and this is for people in Canada who were watching in the 90s, but it was a really big deal the first time RAW ran at the SkyDome in Toronto. That was a huge deal.##
"I think they taped Shotgun Saturday that day, and they had Edge and Christian versus the Hardyz, and I was so pumped. I watched it on Shotgun Saturday Night and it was amazing.##
"I felt like the Hardyz were starting to get pushed on television, but I felt like nobody really knew who they were. I don’t know. I knew. I was a huge fan already. ##
"But then, they were doing the Brood stuff and New Brood. So, when that match was coming up at No Mercy, I remember the friends of mine that we used to all watch the pay-per-views together, they didn’t really know these guys. They weren’t really interested. ##
"I was like, "Guys, just wait. This is gonna be the match. I’m telling you! This is gonna steal the show. It’s gonna be the best match." And it was everything I envisioned and more because they did stuff that I would never have even dreamed of at the time. It was revolutionary.##
"At that point I was 16, just about to start training as a wrestler, and that match had a profound impact on me. So, it was pretty cool, fast forward all these years later, to be in a triple threat match with not only Jeff Hardy, but with AJ, who I was also a big fan of when I was first breaking in and I’d watch his tapes. Because he was a couple of years ahead of me career-wise."##
If You use any of these quotes above, then give credit to FOX Sports WWE Analyst Ryan Satin for the transcription.##
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