In a recent interview with the Gettin Better With Ron Funches podcast, WWE SmackDown superstar Sami Zayn discussed several topics, including the advice that he gives to talents who are new to the WWE system, believing that it is a thing of how good can you be while working with the handcuffs on, feeling that it is an art-form to do that.

“So, this is something I’ve been saying to some wrestlers who struggle sometimes the way I kind of did when they get to WWE, I told them you almost have to look at WWE for example, or like big-time show-business type stuff, movies, maybe it’s all the same, I think it is but whatever, I don’t know for sure, it’s almost two separate art forms.

It’s like, if you’re a painter and I give you a blank canvas and all the colors you could ever want and I go, paint me a masterpiece. If we hire ten great artists, you’ll probably get ten great paintings, but working with WWE and working within all the constraints and working within a very specific framework, it’s almost like being a great painter and being handed a coloring book with three or four different colors and say, okay here you go, make sure to color within the lines, but what you do with it is up to you and anybody, I’m not saying anybody, but any great painter could paint a great piece on a blank canvas, but how good can you make this coloring book look.

It’s like a totally different, it’s almost a different art form, it’s how good could you work with handcuffs on, how good could you work within this really, really tight box when we’ve got to check five or six different goals in three or four minutes and still make it good, you know what I’m saying. It almost became a totally different art form that I don’t think everybody can do. You can be a great wrestler and still not be a great WWE wrestler, because it’s almost a different, it’s almost a different ballpark altogether.”

The interview is available in full at this link.