Zayn, who is of Syrian descent and was born in Canada, expressed his enthusiasm about the opportunity. He noted the special nature of competing in Saudi Arabia and headlining a major premium live event for a WWE championship.

Good. Look, anytime you are main-eventing a big PLE, the fact that Saudi Arabia is always a little special for me just being from this part of the world, obviously. And the fact that you’re main-eventing for a WWE championship.

I don’t think there’s a better spot to be in, except being the champion, which is the goal here. But besides from being the champion, it’s the best spot you can kind of ask for. I really can’t complain.

If Zayn were to win the title, he would be the first WWE world champion of Syrian descent. He reflected on the potential significance of such an achievement.

I think it’s kinda one of those things that would kinda be hard to process. I truly don’t know. I don’t know how the fans would react. I hope they would enjoy it but you never know because my character right now is a little polarizing. I truly don’t know. But I don’t know. I think there’s a lot of like cultural and historical kind of significance that would kinda maybe hit me after the fact.

From a sentimental point of view, for sure, I think it would be kind of awesome. I think it would be a big cultural moment, actually. I don’t think about it. I kind of dismiss it a lot at this point because we come to Saudi a lot. A lot has been made of the fact that I’m Arab or I’m Muslim or whatever. But growing up, that was not the case. It was not like this was a common thing or something that you could ever even dream. I couldn’t have dreamt that this would happen. So, yeah, that would be a pretty big deal I think.

Zayn also touched on the hypothetical scenario of facing Jey Uso for the title, given their shared history with The Bloodline. He acknowledged the intrigue of the possibility but emphasized his focus on the immediate challenge at Night of Champions.

I thought about it a little bit but I really try to focus on one thing at a time. But I do think because of the fact that The Bloodline is reunited on ‘Raw’ with a slightly different skew now because Jacob adds a slightly different dimension but it begs the kind of question, the elephant in the room, which is, ‘Where does Sami Uso lie in all that?’ Because we’re on separate shows, I don’t know if and when that situation, that question, manifests itself on our television show.

I think one way or another it’d be interesting and that would be a really interesting thing. I think it would be very, very interesting actually. But we just gotta see where the chips fall. But I do think, if a scenario like that comes to be, I think it wo

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