Sami Zayn on career injuries: I’ve been battling a lot of little nagging injuries

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The Out Of Character podcast was an opportunity for Sami Zayn to talk about interesting topics in his career. One of the topics was the injuries that marked his career. Zayn, despite his injuries, tried and did his best to get into the ring and show his qualities.

He succeeded in this many times. “I’ve had a lot of issues, I guess for a while that you’re just kind of battling through. It’s funny, when I watch sports, like hockey players or whatever, especially in the playoffs, after the playoffs are done, hockey’s particularly aggressive, the schedule’s grueling and everything like that.

So once the playoffs are done, it’ll be like, ‘Oh, this guy was playing through a broken sternum and three broken fingers and a cracked tibia,’ or whatever, all these insane injuries that they’re playing through.

But as a fan and as a viewer, I’m just watching, and I just assume everything’s fine. But I’ve been battling a lot of little nagging injuries for some time, but nothing to the extent that would put me on the shelf”.

- he said, as quoted by pwmania.com

Zayn on his health

Zayn also spoke about his elbow injury and current state of health. He is aware that he has been on the big stage for many years. Considering what his body has been through, Zayn is in a fantastic situation.

“So [my elbow] is part of a nagging injury that’s just kind of gotten a little bit worse after this past week’s heinous attacks by JD McDonagh, for which there will be revenge. But yeah, there have been some little injuries, but knock on wood, thank god, I’m pretty healthy overall.

You start to think about this stuff a little bit more as you get older, and you’ve been doing it for 21 years, and you’re like, ‘Oh, there’s definitely not another 21 on the backside of this.’ So you’re definitely closer to the end than the beginning.

So maintaining your health and addressing those nagging injuries, I think that’ll become more important. But I still managed to give you a long-winded answer to a very easy question. My elbow’s alright, it’ll be okay. It’s not great, but it will be okay”.