Rami Sebel has been a professional wrestler since 2002, signed with WWE in 2013, and was trained by the late Jerry Tuite (known for his time in WCW) as well as Savio Vega. Zayn (El Generico on the indies) wrestled Kevin Steen (Kevin Owens) for the first time in 2003 and the real-life best friends’ careers have been linked ever since, following them even to WWE currently.
Before WWE, El Generico was known for working in all sorts of promotions all across the world, including the International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS), Ring of Honor (ROH), Japan’s Dragon Gate USA, DDT Pro-Wrestling, Philadelphia’s Chikara promotion, Evolve, Germany’s wXw, and even Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) which is essentially recognized as the place one goes on the indies (if one chooses to go that route) before a man/woman makes it in a large promotion like WWE or AEW.
In Ring of Honor El Generico held the ROH World Television Championship as well as the ROH World Tag Team Championship with who else but his best friend Kevin Steen. The two men feuded throughout the entirety of 2010, winning the Feud of the Year award from Wrestling Observer Newsletter. He is also a two-time IWS World Heavyweight Champion for the Montréal- based International Wrestling Syndicate. This is the promotion where El Generico got his start in professional wrestling in 2002 as he is from Montréal. He stayed with IWS until 2009, while making appearances in many other promotions.
In Germany, while with wXw (following in the footsteps of many other legends like Daniel Bryan), he won the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship and DDT Pro-Wrestling (a sister promotion of New Japan Pro-Wrestling; the hyphen) KO-D Openweight Championship.
El Generico wore a mask throughout his entire tenure on the independent scene. He achieved his greatest success (before WWE) in PWG, when in the PWG World Championship twice and the PWG World Tag Team Championship five times. He is the only wrestler to have won both annual tournaments for PWG in the Battle of Los Angeles in 2011 and the Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title tournament in 2010. As a side note, this is most likely where AEW got the inspiration to call their weekly television program Dynamite – because one of their commentators, Excalibur, is one of the founders of PWG and the company already had the word Dynamite attached to one of their annual tournaments. Kevin Steen was with El Generico every step of the way both personally and professionally.
In WWE Zayn is a former NXT Champion (2014 – 15) and a former two-time Intercontinental Champion, winning his first title on the WWE main roster in March 2020. Zayn has performed on the main roster since 2015 – even though he suffered a shoulder injury before his first televised match on Monday Night Raw began. He began to show significant character development in 2019 after returning from a separate shoulder injury, cutting a promo in which he labeled himself the Critic of Critics and finished by telling the WWE universe “see you in Hell.”
Mr. Conspiracy is currently playing the role of an entitled and narcissistic character who believes his own problems are so unique to the rest of the world that everyone else is out to get him. He is essentially saying that, “I am so special that everyone envies the qualities I possess.” He would ideally adopt the mentality that, “I am more special than anyone else.” Unfortunately, this mentality is a real thing and some people legitimately feel entitled like this (quite a few). It would benefit people with this mentality to give up ideas that they are uniquely special, talented, or attractive, or even victimized.
No one is inherently owed anything by the world. It would benefit people with this mentality to give up the emotional highs that have been sustaining them. This mentality is much more rampant in our society than anyone would care to admit. I can speak from experience because I personally feel I developed this mentality to a certain degree in spiritual form – like a little bit of a Woo-woo mentality. Nothing crazy, but a little bit of entitlement/narcissism. I’m not too proud to admit it – my own journey. That level of consciousness worked for me a year or two ago.