The Story of Sami Zayn with Pat Laprade | POST Interview
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock of POST Wrestling is joined by historian, reporter & author Pat Laprade to discuss the story of Sami Zayn.
Days before Zayn challenges Roman Reigns at a sold-out Bell Centre in Montreal, Pat Laprade reflects on the 20+ year career of Zayn and rising up the Quebec independent scene, breaking out in the U.S. and internationally, and climbing the WWE scene into a main event position.
Pat Laprade is the co-host of Les anti-pods de la lutte and on-air host & reporter for TVA Sports.
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| 0:00.0 | We're back here on post wrestling going into a huge weekend in Montreal. And as waiting told me there |
| 0:06.6 | was no person better suited for us to bring on this week. Then the man himself, the mayor of |
| 0:12.7 | Montreal, the emperor of electric avenue Pat LaFraud, who is with us noted historian, author, |
| 0:20.7 | media mogul himself and the man that I mean, with all due respect to our subject matter today, |
| 0:26.5 | the real king of Montreal wrestling himself, Pat LaFraud. |
| 0:29.1 | My gosh, one introduction. I mean, remind me to send you a PayPal or something because, |
| 0:35.8 | geez, thank you, John. I'm happy to be back on the show. |
| 0:39.1 | Well, I really wanted to have you on this week because this is one where, as soon as this was |
| 0:43.3 | announced for Montreal and you saw where the story was going with the bloodline, it just suddenly |
| 0:50.2 | became a destination event that you knew this was going to be a really big show. And they're |
| 0:55.3 | putting together, to me, the ultimate main event for the market, but not specifically to the |
| 0:59.8 | market. This has worldwide interest with the intrigue of the bloodline and just days out from |
| 1:06.7 | elimination chamber, Pat. I mean, you have covered it all. I mean, tell me a bit about just the |
| 1:11.4 | buzz you sense within the city. Like this feels like this is going to be a major milestone in Montreal |
| 1:16.2 | history. This actually feels like our own version of WrestleMania. I want to explain myself here |
| 1:24.0 | because first of all, there's two shows and two nights. So that's that. |
| 1:29.8 | Thursday night, the undertaker was in town for his show, for his one dead man show. |
| 1:37.2 | There's a superstar downtown. A huge superstar was there and I went there. There's a wide |
| 1:45.7 | varieties of t-shirts and archaea jerseys that we did about it. I mean, they're really, really |
| 1:53.4 | done it all with this paper view, this PLE. And there's a lot of t-shirts and collaboration with |
| 2:00.8 | the Montreal Canadians as well. So that's a huge thing. Very smart tie-in that they've been doing in |
| 2:06.7 | a lot of markets, but those shirts are going to go, they're pairing up Owens and Zane with |
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