International Wrestling Syndicate ( IWS ) is a professional wrestling promotion based out of Montreal , Quebec , Canada. Originating from the Dawson Wrestling Federation , it was formerly known as the Internet Wrestling Syndicate and World Wrestling Syndicate .
209-451: Rami Sebei ( Arabic : رامي سباعي ; born July 12, 1984) is a Canadian professional wrestler . He is signed to WWE , where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Sami Zayn . Sebei made his professional wrestling debut in 2002 under the ring name Stevie McFly . Prior to joining WWE, he competed for Montreal -based promotion International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS), where he became
418-427: A Double Chain match , when Cabana forced Corino to tap out. After the match Steen attacked El Generico and unmasked him. On December 18 at Final Battle 2010 El Generico and Steen ended their year-long feud in an unsanctioned Fight Without Honor , where Generico put his mask on the line against Steen's ROH career. In the weeks leading up to the event, Generico debuted a new darker character and an all-black outfit. In
627-603: A ladder match for the Intercontinental Championship , which was won by Ryder. On the April 4 episode of Raw , Zayn was scheduled to compete in a fatal four-way match against Owens, AJ Styles , and Chris Jericho to determine the number one contender for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship , but was attacked by Owens, who attacked him with a Powerbomb through a table backstage, and replaced by
836-428: A two-out-of-three falls match to conclude the feud. On September 6, Zayn made his WWE debut at a house show in his hometown of Montreal , where he defeated Cesaro. When Zayn targeted Dallas' NXT Championship, Dallas cost Zayn his match against Cesaro's fellow Real American Jack Swagger . Dallas held an open challenge to determine the next title contender, but he banned Zayn from competing. However, Zayn masqueraded as
1045-744: A two-time PWG World Champion and five-time PWG World Tag Team Champion . He is the only person to have won both of PWG's annual tournaments, the Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament in 2010 and the Battle of Los Angeles in 2011 . In ROH, he held the ROH World Television Championship and the ROH World Tag Team Championship as part of a team with Kevin Steen , with whom he later earned
1254-677: A 3-Way Match. On May 24 at Freedom to Fight, Kevin Steen became the first to hold two IWS titles simultaneously, when he defeated Max Boyer in an IWS Championship Unification Match. On September 27 at Un F'N Sanctioned, Excess beat Shayne Hawke for the vacant IWS Canadian Championship in the Extreme Dream Tournament Final Match, while Kevin Steen retained the IWS World Heavyweight Championship against Joey Mercury . On January 10, 2009 at Season's Beatings, The Green Phantom defeated "Big Rig" Brodie Lee in
1463-643: A Christmas Tree Deathmatch. On May 30, IWS celebrated its 10th anniversary "X" at the Medley, where Kevin Nash made his return to Montreal in a losing effort against PCO in a Grudge Match, concluding a genuine rivalry originating from subsequent WWE matches in Montreal & Quebec City in 1995. IWS held its (then) final show on October 9, 2010 at Club Soda , featuring IWS originals SeXXXy Eddy, PCP Crazy F'N Manny, The Arsenal and IWS World Heavyweight Champion The Green Phantom in
1672-712: A Fans Bring The Weapons Match. In early 2014, IWS announced its return in May at the Plaza Theatre. At Praise the Violence, on May 10, Shayne Hawke won the vacant IWS Canadian Championship in a 4-Way Match. At XV:15 FKN Years on August 23, IWS celebrated its 15th anniversary, featuring Tommy Dreamer . On September 20 at Scarred 4 Life, "Speedball" Mike Bailey won the IWS World Heavyweight Championship against The Green Phantom. At Un F'N Sanctioned on March 28, 2015 at Corona Theatre , Mike Bailey defeated Hallowicked and Jesse Neal in
1881-711: A Triple Threat Match, retaining his CZW World Heavyweight Championship . In Spring 2002, IWS inaugurated the IWS Tag Team Championship with the Extreme Dream Tag Team Tournament. The tournament was won by Maxx Fury & Hardcore Ninja #1, on March 16 at Extreme Dream Part 2. On May 18, at Freedom To Fight, The Green Phantom won his first IWS Heavyweight Championship in a 4-Way Elimination Match; defeating PCP Crazy F'N Manny, The Arsenal and SeXXXy Eddy. On July 14 at Scarred For Life, "The Generic Luchador" El Generico made his wrestling debut in
2090-530: A Triple Threat Match. On September 5 at Scarred 4 Life, Vampiro returned to Montreal after 30 years since making his pro wrestling debut in Quebec, and Mike Bailey retained the IWS World Heavyweight Championship against Jack Evans . On March 5, 2016 at Un F'N Sanctioned held at Métropolis , Black Dynomite won the IWS World Heavyweight Championship in a 4-Way Match versus Rey Mysterio , Jack Evans and Mike Bailey. On May 28 at Bloodstream: Vol. 2, Hardcore Ninjaz won
2299-542: A battle royal to determine the number one contender for the Universal Championship , last eliminating Jeff Hardy to win the match. On the December 3 episode of SmackDown , Zayn would face the champion Roman Reigns for the title, but lost in 15 seconds due to Brock Lesnar attacking him before the match. On the December 24 episode of SmackDown , Zayn won a 12-man gauntlet match to become the number one contender for
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#17328982956982508-503: A battle royal to qualify for Team Raw at Survivor Series , but was last eliminated by Strowman. On the November 1 episode of SmackDown Live , Intercontinental Champion Dolph Ziggler made an open challenge to any wrestler from the Raw brand. The following week, Zayn stated that Mick Foley wanted him to face Ziggler, but Commissioner Stephanie McMahon , who preferred Rusev , made Zayn face Rusev with
2717-611: A broadcast deal with Fight Network USA. IWS announced on January 10, 2022, production of a second pre-recorded television program for Fight Network entitled IWS Hardcore History , a watch-along series featuring the greatest matches and moments in the promotion's storied history. FITE announced on June 8, 2023, that IWS joined the FITE+ SVOD subscription platform with both live and archived events, including its weekly show Bloodstream . IWS aired its first live event Scarred 4 Life on July 15, 2023. Women's Wrestling Syndicate ( WWS )
2926-575: A challenger for Caoz, the promotion's "Campeón Máximo". In the end, Kaiser came out of the match victorious. On April 24, El Generico wrestled for Chilean promotion Xplosion Nacional de Lucha (XNL), losing to Crazy Sid in an XNL Championship number one contender's three-way match, which also included XL. On February 26, 2012, El Generico visited Russia for the first time, making his debut for the Independent Wrestling Federation (IWF), where he faced Ivan "Locomotive" Markov and won. Later in
3135-553: A claim for an NXT Championship match, champion Neville agreed to face all three in a fatal-four-way match at the next NXT TakeOver event. To hype that match, Zayn and Neville appeared on the September 8 episode of Raw , defeating Breeze and Kidd while making their main roster debuts. At NXT TakeOver: Fatal 4-Way on September 11, Zayn nearly won the four-way match and the NXT Championship, but champion Neville stopped him by dragging
3344-562: A collection of related dialects that constitute the precursor of Arabic, first emerged during the Iron Age . Previously, the earliest attestation of Old Arabic was thought to be a single 1st century CE inscription in Sabaic script at Qaryat al-Faw , in southern present-day Saudi Arabia. However, this inscription does not participate in several of the key innovations of the Arabic language group, such as
3553-435: A corpus of poetic texts, in addition to Qur'an usage and Bedouin informants whom he considered to be reliable speakers of the ʿarabiyya . Arabic spread with the spread of Islam . Following the early Muslim conquests , Arabic gained vocabulary from Middle Persian and Turkish . In the early Abbasid period , many Classical Greek terms entered Arabic through translations carried out at Baghdad's House of Wisdom . By
3762-412: A count out victory. On August 16, 2003, Pierre Carl Ouellet (PCO) and Kevin Steen made their IWS debuts at Born to Bleed. On October 18, at Blood, Sweat and Beers, PCO defeated El Generico and Kevin Steen in a Triple Threat Match. On November 15 at Payback's A Bitch, El Generico defeated Kevin Steen in their first-ever singles match against each other. On December 13 at Season's Beatings, IWS held
3971-1077: A dialect of Arabic and written in the Latin alphabet . The Balkan languages, including Albanian, Greek , Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian , have also acquired many words of Arabic origin, mainly through direct contact with Ottoman Turkish . Arabic has influenced languages across the globe throughout its history, especially languages where Islam is the predominant religion and in countries that were conquered by Muslims. The most markedly influenced languages are Persian , Turkish , Hindustani ( Hindi and Urdu ), Kashmiri , Kurdish , Bosnian , Kazakh , Bengali , Malay ( Indonesian and Malaysian ), Maldivian , Pashto , Punjabi , Albanian , Armenian , Azerbaijani , Sicilian, Spanish, Greek, Bulgarian, Tagalog , Sindhi , Odia , Hebrew and African languages such as Hausa , Amharic , Tigrinya , Somali , Tamazight , and Swahili . Conversely, Arabic has borrowed some words (mostly nouns) from other languages, including its sister-language Aramaic, Persian, Greek, and Latin and to
4180-428: A disorientated Zayn five times, ending his reign at 62 days. On the May 4 episode of Raw , Zayn was introduced by Bret Hart as John Cena 's opponent for his weekly "U.S. Open Challenge" for his United States Championship ; taking place in his hometown of Montreal. Zayn was heavily favored by the crowd over Cena, but ultimately lost the match. After the match, Cena let Zayn have the ring to an outstanding ovation from
4389-697: A duo introduced as ¡Peligro Abejas! (translated as Danger Bees!) in the fourth annual Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament eight-team tag tournament. After defeating Chuck Taylor and Scott Lost in the first round and the Briscoe Brothers (Jay and Mark) in the semifinals, Generico and London defeated the Young Bucks in the finals of the tournament to not only win DDT4, but also the PWG World Tag Team Championship, Generico's fifth time holding
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#17328982956984598-691: A fatal four-way match for the Intercontinental Championship at Extreme Rules on May 22, but Miz retained the title. On the May 23 episode of Raw , Zayn defeated Sheamus to qualify for the Money in the Bank ladder match , but at the eponymous event on June 19, he was unsuccessful as the briefcase was won by Dean Ambrose . On July 19 at the 2016 WWE draft , Zayn was drafted to Raw. At Battleground on July 24, Zayn defeated Owens. At SummerSlam on August 21, Zayn and Neville defeated The Dudley Boyz on
4807-597: A feud with Daniel Bryan, during which Bryan and Drew Gulak faced Zayn's Artist Collective partners Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro in various matches. On the first night of WrestleMania 36 on April 4, Zayn defeated Bryan to retain the title. On May 12, he was stripped of the championship after refraining from competing during the COVID-19 pandemic , ending his reign at 65 days. On the August 28 episode of SmackDown , Zayn attacked Intercontinental Champion Jeff Hardy and declared himself
5016-444: A job. Though reluctant, Angle made a match between the two with the winner earning a Raw contract, which ended in a no contest, leaving them both as free agents. On the April 16 episode of Raw , Zayn and Owens were awarded Raw contracts by Raw Commissioner Stephanie McMahon . At Backlash on May 6, Zayn and Owens faced Bobby Lashley and Braun Strowman in a losing effort. At Money in the Bank on June 17, Zayn lost to Lashley. After
5225-650: A ladder war. This was his last appearance with ROH before signing with WWE. Generico travelled to Japan during the summer of 2007, where he worked for the Dragon Gate (DG) promotion as the gaijin (foreign) representative of the New Hazard stable. He returned to the promotion in July 2008, where he was announced as Tozawa-juku's "foreign exchange student." El Generico made his third tour of Dragon Gate in October 2009, when he wrestled as
5434-483: A lesser extent and more recently from Turkish, English, French, and Italian. Arabic is spoken by as many as 380 million speakers, both native and non-native, in the Arab world, making it the fifth most spoken language in the world, and the fourth most used language on the internet in terms of users. It also serves as the liturgical language of more than 2 billion Muslims . In 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked Arabic
5643-464: A losing effort in a Last Man Standing match and then disappeared from ROH. After Steen successfully defended the ROH World Championship on October 13 at Glory By Honor XI: The Unbreakable Hope , he received a parcel containing Generico's mask. El Generico returned to ROH on December 16 at Final Battle 2012: Doomsday , where he unsuccessfully challenged Steen for the ROH World Championship in
5852-634: A match for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship , which Reigns accepted. At Elimination Chamber on February 18, Zayn failed to win the titles from Reigns in a universally acclaimed match in front of his home crowd in Montreal . After the match, Owens saved Zayn from a beatdown from Reigns and Jimmy. On the following episode of Raw , Zayn offered an olive branch to Owens and proposed that they team up to bring down The Bloodline together, but Owens rejected it. Jey remained unbiased until
6061-693: A member of the Kamikaze stable. In early 2011, El Generico began making semi-regular appearances for the Japanese DDT Pro-Wrestling sister-promotion Union Pro Wrestling, making his debut on January 3 with a win over Shinichiro Tominaga. On September 19, El Generico won his first title in Japan, when he defeated Isami Kodaka for the DDT Extreme Championship . After successful title defenses against Shuji Ishikawa and Sanshiro Takagi , he re-lost
6270-677: A millennium before the modern period . Early lexicographers ( لُغَوِيُّون lughawiyyūn ) sought to explain words in the Quran that were unfamiliar or had a particular contextual meaning, and to identify words of non-Arabic origin that appear in the Quran. They gathered shawāhid ( شَوَاهِد 'instances of attested usage') from poetry and the speech of the Arabs—particularly the Bedouin ʾaʿrāb [ ar ] ( أَعْراب ) who were perceived to speak
6479-663: A no-contest. At Season's Beatings on December 2, Big Magic won the IWS World Heavyweight Championship in a 4-Way Elimination Match. On January 20, 2018 at Freedom To Fight, WWE United Kingdom Champion Pete Dunne fought IWS Canadian Champion Matt Angel to a no-contest. On March 3 at Un F'N Sanctioned, Matt Angel successfully defended the IWS Canadian Championship versus "Flying" Frank Milano and Rob Van Dam . On April 28 at Unstoppable, TDT and Buxx Belmar defeated Les Brasseurs with Scott Parker and British Strong Style . On July 14 at Hardcore Heat, PCO defeated WALTER in
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6688-517: A non-title match, giving the Bucks their first tag team loss in almost a year and a half. On November 21 during the second night of the 2009 Battle of Los Angeles , Generico and Kevin Steen lost a title match against the Bucks. Later, he and Cabana saved the new PWG World Champion Kenny Omega from Brian Kendrick and the Bucks and made peace with him as they now had a common enemy. On May 9, 2010, Generico teamed up with "Intrepid Traveler" Paul London to form
6897-524: A number one contender's match to Neville on the November 27 episode of NXT . Zayn moved on to feud with Kruger and the feud culminated in Zayn winning a two-out-of-three falls match on the January 1, 2014, episode of NXT . After that, Zayn's obsession with his loss to Cesaro the previous year led to him challenging Cesaro to a rematch at NXT Arrival on February 27, which he lost, but Cesaro showed respect to Zayn after
7106-741: A pivotal milestone in the history of the promotion when he became the first IWS Heavyweight Champion to internationally defend the title, defeating Roderick Strong on October 30 in New Jersey at JAPW . These events and various upcoming plans of expansion led the promotion to be renamed the International Wrestling Syndicate, coincidentally acknowledging Montreal's professional wrestling territorial era via Lutte Internationale . At Un F'N Sanctioned on March 26, 2005, The Green Phantom defeated Chris Hero , Beef Wellington beat Super Dragon , and Franky The Mobster defeated Kevin Steen for both
7315-465: A pre-recorded television program for RDS . The first TV tapings of the four episode experimental deal, was held at Blood, Sweat & Beers at Club Unity on October 7, 2017. The first RDS2 broadcast of the monthly program La Lutte à RDS , aired on October 22, 2017. On February 22, 2018, IWS announced a year-long extension with RDS. In early 2019, RDS indefinitely renewed its programming of La Lutte à RDS on RDS2. On October 22, 2020, IWS debuted on
7524-568: A rematch for the titles on the September 25 episode of Raw . Also at Payback, Cody Rhodes got Jey Uso—who was on SmackDown and had quit WWE shortly before Payback—reinstated as a member of Raw and it was revealed that someone was traded to SmackDown for Jey. The following month on the October 13 episode of SmackDown , new SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis revealed that Kevin Owens had been traded to SmackDown for Jey, in turn splitting Owens and Zayn. After Kevin Owens moved to SmackDown, Zayn declared on
7733-691: A rematch to their critically acclaimed confrontation at Joey Janela's Spring Break 2. On October 6 at British Strong Style, Moustache Mountain defeated TDT for the IWS World Tag Team Championship. On March 23, 2019, IWS celebrated its 20th anniversary with Un F'N Sanctioned at MTelus , where Tajiri with Mikey Whipwreck defeated Mike Bailey, while also featuring Little Guido , Wolfgang , Darby Allin and DJZ . On April 6, IWS presented Unstoppable at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City , as Addy Starr defeated Solo Darling and Veda Scott in
7942-401: A rematch with Cesaro. On the July 17 NXT , Zayn failed to win another number one contender's match also involving Cesaro and Leo Kruger . On the July 31 episode of NXT , Zayn teamed with NXT Champion Bo Dallas against Cesaro and Kruger; after Cesaro and Zayn brawled to the back, Dallas lost the match and later blamed Zayn for the loss. On the August 21 episode of NXT , Zayn lost to Cesaro in
8151-513: A rematch. On the March 18 episode of SmackDown , Zayn added an Anything Goes stipulation to their match, and Knoxville accepted the challenge afterwards. On the second night of WrestleMania 38 on April 3, Zayn lost to Knoxville after the latter's Jackass co-actors interfered in the match. Having felt as he had lost respect and credibility in the locker room, starting on the April 22 episode of SmackDown , Zayn sought to seek favor with The Bloodline ,
8360-576: A result, many European languages have borrowed words from it. Arabic influence, mainly in vocabulary, is seen in European languages (mainly Spanish and to a lesser extent Portuguese , Catalan , and Sicilian ) owing to the proximity of Europe and the long-lasting Arabic cultural and linguistic presence, mainly in Southern Iberia, during the Al-Andalus era. Maltese is a Semitic language developed from
8569-446: A returning Cesaro . Because of the actions of Owens, Shane McMahon gave Zayn another opportunity on the April 11 episode of Raw to become a number one contender by having him face Styles, who had won the contender's match the week before, but Zayn lost to Styles. On the April 18 episode of Raw , McMahon booked Zayn and Owens in a match at Payback on May 1, which Owens won. On the May 9 episode of Raw , Zayn defeated The Miz to enter
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8778-462: A script derived from ASA attest to a language known as Hasaitic . On the northwestern frontier of Arabia, various languages known to scholars as Thamudic B , Thamudic D, Safaitic , and Hismaic are attested. The last two share important isoglosses with later forms of Arabic, leading scholars to theorize that Safaitic and Hismaic are early forms of Arabic and that they should be considered Old Arabic . Linguists generally believe that "Old Arabic",
8987-465: A single language, despite mutual incomprehensibility among differing spoken versions. From a linguistic standpoint, it is often said that the various spoken varieties of Arabic differ among each other collectively about as much as the Romance languages . This is an apt comparison in a number of ways. The period of divergence from a single spoken form is similar—perhaps 1500 years for Arabic, 2000 years for
9196-550: A six-man tag team match, where they defeated F.I.S.T. (Chuck Taylor, Icarus and Johnny Gargano ). The following day ¡3.0le! was defeated by the Spectral Envoy ( Frightmare , Hallowicked and UltraMantis Black ) in a six-man tag team match. El Generico first wrestled for Ring of Honor (ROH) in 2005, earning a spot in a Four Corner Survival match at Do Or Die IV . He teamed with the Ring Crew Express (Dunn and Marcos) in
9405-407: A six-way match. On April 13, El Generico made his debut for Evolve , a promotion closely affiliated with DGUSA, losing to Low Ki . After another loss to Ricochet on May 11, El Generico picked up his first win in the promotion on May 12 by defeating Sami Callihan . El Generico then had two singles matches against Samuray del Sol; the first on June 28 at Evolve 14 was won by El Generico and the rematch
9614-471: A steel chair and Orton delivered an RKO to Owens. Owens and Zayn defeated Orton and Shinsuke Nakamura in a tag team match at Clash of Champions on December 17 with SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon and SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan as special guest referees and their jobs on the line after a fast count by Bryan. Zayn and Owens then both scored non-title victories over WWE Champion AJ Styles on respective episodes of SmackDown Live , thus earning
9823-455: A talent partnership with AAA and Lucha Underground . IWS clashed with CZW at Freedom to Fight on October 17 at Le Skratch in Laval , where the IWS Canadian Championship, CZW World Tag Team Championship and CZW World Heavyweight Championship titles were successfully defended. On September 9, 2018, Mike Bailey defeated Psicosis and Argenis in a 3-Way Dance, at an IWS vs AAA spot show for
10032-626: A title opportunity against Styles in a handicap match at the Royal Rumble on January 28, where they failed to win the title. Zayn later stole Tye Dillinger's #10 spot at the Royal Rumble match but was eliminated by eventual winner Shinsuke Nakamura. Zayn walked out on Owens during a tag team match against Styles and Nakamura two nights later on SmackDown . Zayn faced Owens on the February 6 episode of SmackDown Live to determine who would face Styles for
10241-597: A triple threat match at King and Queen of the Ring , where Zayn retained his title after pinning Reed. At Clash at the Castle: Scotland , Zayn defeated Gable to retain the title, ending their feud. At Money in the Bank , Zayn successfully retained the title against Bron Breakker . On the July 15 episode of Raw, Zayn defended his title against Ilja Dragunov , but the match ended in a no contest after Breakker attacked both Dragunov and Zayn. At SummerSlam on August 3, Zayn lost
10450-464: A triple threat match on the next episode of NXT , where Kidd won to become number one contender. At NXT TakeOver on May 29, Zayn lost to Breeze in another number one contender's match. In June 2014, Zayn went on to feud with Tyson Kidd after Kidd abandoned him during their match against NXT Tag Team Champions The Ascension . After Zayn defeated Justin Gabriel , both Kidd and Gabriel attacked Zayn, who
10659-420: A tryout dark match for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) at the promotion's Impact! tapings, losing to Amazing Red . The following day he defeated T. J. Perkins in another dark match. On April 20, 2011, El Generico made his South American debut, when he wrestled for Peruvian promotion Leader Wrestling Association (LWA), facing Apocalipsis, Axl and Kaiser in a number one contender's match to determine
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#173289829569810868-557: A two out of three falls match at Manhattan Mayhem 2 and a ladder match advertised as a "Ladder War" at Man Up . This final match became the Main Event of ROH's third pay-per-view. Also during this time, Generico broke out as a singles competitor, having a strong run in the Race to the Top Tournament of 2007. He defeated (in order) Delirious , Chris Hero and Davey Richards , only to lose in
11077-539: A two-time IWS World Heavyweight Champion , and would achieve breakout success in the United States with Los Angeles -based promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) and then- Philadelphia -based promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), all under the ring name El Generico , using the character of a luchador from Mexico with the catchphrase "Olé!". He wrestled while masked from 2002 until 2013. During his time in PWG, Sebei became
11286-503: A type of Arabic. Cypriot Arabic is recognized as a minority language in Cyprus. The sociolinguistic situation of Arabic in modern times provides a prime example of the linguistic phenomenon of diglossia , which is the normal use of two separate varieties of the same language, usually in different social situations. Tawleed is the process of giving a new shade of meaning to an old classical word. For example, al-hatif lexicographically means
11495-499: A variety of regional vernacular Arabic dialects , which are not necessarily mutually intelligible. Classical Arabic is the language found in the Quran , used from the period of Pre-Islamic Arabia to that of the Abbasid Caliphate . Classical Arabic is prescriptive, according to the syntactic and grammatical norms laid down by classical grammarians (such as Sibawayh ) and the vocabulary defined in classical dictionaries (such as
11704-470: A wider audience." In the wake of the industrial revolution and European hegemony and colonialism , pioneering Arabic presses, such as the Amiri Press established by Muhammad Ali (1819), dramatically changed the diffusion and consumption of Arabic literature and publications. Rifa'a al-Tahtawi proposed the establishment of Madrasat al-Alsun in 1836 and led a translation campaign that highlighted
11913-481: Is XXX , but would be found "not guilty, for now" in regard to betraying The Bloodline. At the Royal Rumble , Reigns proceeded to have the rest of The Bloodline beat Owens down following the match, but Zayn refused to join the beatdown and eventually hit Reigns with a chair, leading to the entire Bloodline (excluding Jey) attacking Zayn, turning face for the first time since 2017. On the February 3, 2023, episode of SmackDown , Zayn attacked Reigns and challenged him to
12122-727: Is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world . The ISO assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic , including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic , which is derived from Classical Arabic . This distinction exists primarily among Western linguists; Arabic speakers themselves generally do not distinguish between Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, but rather refer to both as al-ʿarabiyyatu l-fuṣḥā ( اَلعَرَبِيَّةُ ٱلْفُصْحَىٰ "the eloquent Arabic") or simply al-fuṣḥā ( اَلْفُصْحَىٰ ). Arabic
12331-585: Is a minimum level of comprehension between all Arabic dialects, this level can increase or decrease based on geographic proximity: for example, Levantine and Gulf speakers understand each other much better than they do speakers from the Maghreb. The issue of diglossia between spoken and written language is a complicating factor: A single written form, differing sharply from any of the spoken varieties learned natively, unites several sometimes divergent spoken forms. For political reasons, Arabs mostly assert that they all speak
12540-542: Is a sister language rather than their direct ancestor. Arabia had a wide variety of Semitic languages in antiquity. The term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula , as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece . In the southwest, various Central Semitic languages both belonging to and outside the Ancient South Arabian family (e.g. Southern Thamudic) were spoken. It
12749-498: Is also the only participant to consecutively appear in the first eight Battle of Los Angeles tournaments from 2005. On February 24, 2007, Generico defeated former partner Tornado to win the PWG World Championship during his title run with Cape Fear. Later that year, while Generico was still World Champion, he and Steen defeated PAC and Roderick Strong for the belts, making Generico the only man in PWG history to hold both
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#173289829569812958-624: Is an all-women's professional wrestling promotion based out of Montreal , Quebec , Canada. WWS was founded by the IWS and LuFisto on November 30, 2023. The promotion is promoted and executive produced by Hall of Famer LuFisto. In August 2022, IWS was featured for spotlighting its Women's division, providing a platform for multicultural and 2SLGBTQ+ athletes, and promoting a zero-tolerance policy toward discrimination and harassment at its events and IWS Training Centre. On November 17, 2023, LuFisto with IWS and SPIRA, produced an all-women's spot show for
13167-469: Is believed that the ancestors of the Modern South Arabian languages (non-Central Semitic languages) were spoken in southern Arabia at this time. To the north, in the oases of northern Hejaz , Dadanitic and Taymanitic held some prestige as inscriptional languages. In Najd and parts of western Arabia, a language known to scholars as Thamudic C is attested. In eastern Arabia, inscriptions in
13376-408: Is credited with establishing the rules of Arabic prosody . Al-Jahiz (776–868) proposed to Al-Akhfash al-Akbar an overhaul of the grammar of Arabic, but it would not come to pass for two centuries. The standardization of Arabic reached completion around the end of the 8th century. The first comprehensive description of the ʿarabiyya "Arabic", Sībawayhi's al - Kitāb , is based first of all upon
13585-468: Is credited with standardizing Arabic grammar , or an-naḥw ( النَّحو "the way" ), and pioneering a system of diacritics to differentiate consonants ( نقط الإعجام nuqaṭu‿l-i'jām "pointing for non-Arabs") and indicate vocalization ( التشكيل at-tashkīl ). Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (718–786) compiled the first Arabic dictionary, Kitāb al-'Ayn ( كتاب العين "The Book of the Letter ع "), and
13794-566: Is not present in the spoken varieties, but deletes Classical words that sound obsolete in MSA. In addition, MSA has borrowed or coined many terms for concepts that did not exist in Quranic times, and MSA continues to evolve. Some words have been borrowed from other languages—notice that transliteration mainly indicates spelling and not real pronunciation (e.g., فِلْم film 'film' or ديمقراطية dīmuqrāṭiyyah 'democracy'). The current preference
14003-836: Is official in Mali and recognized as a minority language in Morocco, while the Senegalese government adopted the Latin script to write it. Maltese is official in (predominantly Catholic ) Malta and written with the Latin script . Linguists agree that it is a variety of spoken Arabic, descended from Siculo-Arabic , though it has experienced extensive changes as a result of sustained and intensive contact with Italo-Romance varieties, and more recently also with English. Due to "a mix of social, cultural, historical, political, and indeed linguistic factors", many Maltese people today consider their language Semitic but not
14212-428: Is renowned as being one of the continent's longest-running promotions, and one of hardcore wrestling's staunchest standouts, while evolving into a proving ground for young talent from Quebec , Ontario and Atlantic Canada . In April 1998, SeXXXy Eddy organized the Dawson Wrestling Federation to perform on the grounds of Dawson College in Montreal. He became the promotion's first champion. Professional wrestling
14421-449: Is the third most widespread official language after English and French, one of six official languages of the United Nations , and the liturgical language of Islam . Arabic is widely taught in schools and universities around the world and is used to varying degrees in workplaces, governments and the media. During the Middle Ages , Arabic was a major vehicle of culture and learning, especially in science, mathematics and philosophy. As
14630-530: Is the variety used in most current, printed Arabic publications, spoken by some of the Arabic media across North Africa and the Middle East, and understood by most educated Arabic speakers. "Literary Arabic" and "Standard Arabic" ( فُصْحَى fuṣḥá ) are less strictly defined terms that may refer to Modern Standard Arabic or Classical Arabic. Some of the differences between Classical Arabic (CA) and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) are as follows: MSA uses much Classical vocabulary (e.g., dhahaba 'to go') that
14839-413: Is to avoid direct borrowings, preferring to either use loan translations (e.g., فرع farʻ 'branch', also used for the branch of a company or organization; جناح janāḥ 'wing', is also used for the wing of an airplane, building, air force, etc.), or to coin new words using forms within existing roots ( استماتة istimātah ' apoptosis ', using the root موت m/w/t 'death' put into
15048-516: Is used to denote concepts that have arisen in the industrial and post-industrial era , especially in modern times. Due to its grounding in Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic is removed over a millennium from everyday speech, which is construed as a multitude of dialects of this language. These dialects and Modern Standard Arabic are described by some scholars as not mutually comprehensible. The former are usually acquired in families, while
15257-445: The Lisān al-ʻArab ). Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) largely follows the grammatical standards of Classical Arabic and uses much of the same vocabulary. However, it has discarded some grammatical constructions and vocabulary that no longer have any counterpart in the spoken varieties and has adopted certain new constructions and vocabulary from the spoken varieties. Much of the new vocabulary
15466-558: The 2008 King of Trios , where he teamed with Player Uno and Stupefied , again, as Team IWS. After defeating the F1rst Family ( Arik Cannon , Darin Corbin and Ryan Cruz) in their first round match on March 1, Team IWS was eliminated from the tournament later that same day by Los Luchadores de Mexico ( Incognito , Lince Dorado and El Pantera ), who went on to win the entire tournament. The following year, on March 27, El Generico returned for
15675-458: The 2009 King of Trios , this time teaming with Matt and Nick Jackson as Team PWG. They were eliminated from the tournament in the first round by The Osirian Portal (Amasis, Escorpion Egipcio and Ophidian ). The following day El Generico entered the Rey de Voladores tournament, but was defeated by Kota Ibushi in his four-way elimination semifinal match, which also included Jigsaw and Nick Jackson. On
15884-482: The 2024 Royal Rumble , Zayn entered at number #30 and eliminated Priest before being eliminated by Drew McIntyre . On the March 11 episode of Raw , Zayn won a gauntlet match to earn an Intercontinental Championship match against Gunther at WrestleMania XL . On Night 1 of WrestleMania XL, Zayn defeated Gunther to win the Intercontinental Championship for the fourth time, ending Gunther's record-setting title reign at 666 days and giving him his first pinfall loss on
16093-571: The CZW Iron Man and IWS World Heavyweight Championships at the Medley. At Freedom to Fight on July 9, IWS held its first international event and only cage match, when SeXXXy Eddy won the IWS World Heavyweight Championship in a 4-Way Elimination Cage Match at Viking Hall in Philadelphia . On July 23, IWS inaugurated the IWS Canadian Championship with preliminary matches for Extreme Dream Tournament II. On August 20, Chris Bishop defeated El Generico in
16302-724: The KO-D Openweight Championship in the former promotion. Upon signing with WWE in 2013 and taking on the ring name Sami Zayn, he began wrestling without a mask in WWE's developmental brand NXT , eventually winning the NXT Championship . After being promoted to the main roster, he would become a four-time Intercontinental Champion . Starting in 2022, his popularity with fans would begin to skyrocket thanks to his critically acclaimed work with The Bloodline faction. In addition to his other WWE accomplishments, Sebei also wrestled in
16511-633: The KO-D Openweight Championship , DDT's top title. El Generico made his first successful title defense on October 21 in a rematch against Ibushi. On November 25, El Generico defeated KO-D Tag Team Champion Mikami for his second successful defense of the KO-D Openweight Championship. On December 23, El Generico lost the KO-D Openweight Championship to Kenny Omega in his third defense. On March 31, 2012, El Generico made his debut for Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA), when he defeated Chuck Taylor, Cima , Lince Dorado, Rich Swann and Samuray del Sol in
16720-579: The Tag World Grand Prix . On June 23, Max Boyer entered the Young Lions Cup IV tournament , defeating Brandon Thomaselli in his first round match. On October 28, Boyer defeated Arik Cannon in a return singles match to win the Young Lions Cup. Boyer was forced to vacate the title in time for the fifth annual Young Lions Cup tournament. On January 20, 2007, El Generico was named at Praise
16929-602: The Trios Tournament 2005 , losing to the Rottweilers. At Stalemate , he lost to Roderick Strong , then teaming with Sal Rinauro against The Embassy at New Frontiers (and losing). He only received a few more matches, losing to Austin Aries at Fate of an Angel and getting his first win against fellow IWS alumnus Kevin Steen at The Homecoming (a match that didn't even make it to the event's DVD). His final ROH match of this run
17138-561: The Xth form , or جامعة jāmiʻah 'university', based on جمع jamaʻa 'to gather, unite'; جمهورية jumhūriyyah 'republic', based on جمهور jumhūr 'multitude'). An earlier tendency was to redefine an older word although this has fallen into disuse (e.g., هاتف hātif 'telephone' < 'invisible caller (in Sufism)'; جريدة jarīdah 'newspaper' < 'palm-leaf stalk'). Colloquial or dialectal Arabic refers to
17347-494: The northern Hejaz . These features are evidence of common descent from a hypothetical ancestor , Proto-Arabic . The following features of Proto-Arabic can be reconstructed with confidence: On the other hand, several Arabic varieties are closer to other Semitic languages and maintain features not found in Classical Arabic, indicating that these varieties cannot have developed from Classical Arabic. Thus, Arabic vernaculars do not descend from Classical Arabic: Classical Arabic
17556-491: The "Land of Opportunity". On the October 24 episode of SmackDown Live , Zayn lost to Randy Orton , failing to acquire a spot on Team SmackDown to face Team Raw at Survivor Series . At the Survivor Series kick-off show on November 19, Zayn and Owens defeated Breezango ( Tyler Breeze and Fandango ). Later that night, Owens and Zayn interfered in the main event and attacked Shane, which backfired after Shane attacked both with
17765-419: The "learned" tradition (Classical Arabic). This variety and both its classicizing and "lay" iterations have been termed Middle Arabic in the past, but they are thought to continue an Old Higazi register. It is clear that the orthography of the Quran was not developed for the standardized form of Classical Arabic; rather, it shows the attempt on the part of writers to record an archaic form of Old Higazi. In
17974-729: The "purest," most eloquent form of Arabic—initiating a process of jamʿu‿l-luɣah ( جمع اللغة 'compiling the language') which took place over the 8th and early 9th centuries. Kitāb al-'Ayn ( c. 8th century ), attributed to Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi , is considered the first lexicon to include all Arabic roots ; it sought to exhaust all possible root permutations —later called taqālīb ( تقاليب ) — calling those that are actually used mustaʿmal ( مستعمَل ) and those that are not used muhmal ( مُهمَل ). Lisān al-ʿArab (1290) by Ibn Manzur gives 9,273 roots, while Tāj al-ʿArūs (1774) by Murtada az-Zabidi gives 11,978 roots. International Wrestling Syndicate IWS
18183-408: The "real" Intercontinental Champion, eventually reuniting with Cesaro and Nakamura backstage; however, Cesaro dismissed him from the locker room so that he and Nakamura could have some discussion by themselves. At Clash of Champions on September 27, Zayn defeated Hardy and AJ Styles in a triple threat ladder match to reclaim the Intercontinental Championship by handcuffing both with the ladders. On
18392-454: The 11th and 12th centuries in al-Andalus , the zajal and muwashah poetry forms developed in the dialectical Arabic of Cordoba and the Maghreb. The Nahda was a cultural and especially literary renaissance of the 19th century in which writers sought "to fuse Arabic and European forms of expression." According to James L. Gelvin , " Nahda writers attempted to simplify the Arabic language and script so that it might be accessible to
18601-617: The 2010 Feud of the Year award from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter . He has also performed in Chikara and Evolve . Having wrestled internationally, Sebei competed for Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) in Germany, where he won the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship , and also competed in Japan for DDT Pro-Wrestling and Dragon Gate (as well as its American branch ), having won
18810-562: The 4th to the 6th centuries, the Nabataean script evolved into the Arabic script recognizable from the early Islamic era. There are inscriptions in an undotted, 17-letter Arabic script dating to the 6th century CE, found at four locations in Syria ( Zabad , Jebel Usays , Harran , Umm el-Jimal ). The oldest surviving papyrus in Arabic dates to 643 CE, and it uses dots to produce the modern 28-letter Arabic alphabet. The language of that papyrus and of
19019-812: The 8th century, knowledge of Classical Arabic had become an essential prerequisite for rising into the higher classes throughout the Islamic world, both for Muslims and non-Muslims. For example, Maimonides , the Andalusi Jewish philosopher, authored works in Judeo-Arabic —Arabic written in Hebrew script . Ibn Jinni of Mosul , a pioneer in phonology , wrote prolifically in the 10th century on Arabic morphology and phonology in works such as Kitāb Al-Munṣif , Kitāb Al-Muḥtasab , and Kitāb Al-Khaṣāʾiṣ [ ar ] . Ibn Mada' of Cordoba (1116–1196) realized
19228-513: The August 19 episode of SmackDown , he competed in a fatal five-way match to determine the number one contender for the Intercontinental Championship, which was won by Sheamus . In the following weeks, the tensions between Zayn and Jey Uso , another member of The Bloodline, escalated as Jey did not trust Zayn, and they constantly argued. On the September 23 episode of SmackDown , Reigns declared Zayn an official "Honorary Uce". At Survivor Series: WarGames , Zayn, along with The Bloodline, defeated
19437-814: The Extreme Dream Tournament Final Match for the IWS Canadian Championship. On June 3, 2006 at Un F'N Sanctioned, Sabu worked his (then) last independent match teaming with PCO defeating The Green Phantom and Dru Onyx , 48 hours prior to debuting on WWE Raw . On July 29 at Summer Slaughter, Max Boyer won the Extreme Dream Tournament Final in a 6-Way Elimination Match. On August 8 at Breakout, Viking defeated Excess in an IWS World Heavyweight Title vs. Career Match. On March 24, 2007 at Un F'N Sanctioned, Christian Cage & Max Boyer defeated PCO & Jake Matthews. On September 22 at Blood, Sweat & Beers, Kevin Steen defeated Jay Briscoe , while The Dudley Boyz (renouncing to being billed as Team 3D during
19646-799: The FLQ promotion in Quebec as Stevie McFly. On July 14, 2002, as El Generico, he made his International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS) debut at the Scarred For Life event in a count out victory. On October 18, 2003, at Blood, Sweat and Beers, Generico lost to Carl Ouellet in a three-way match also involving Kevin Steen . On November 15 at Payback's A Bitch, El Generico defeated Kevin Steen in their first-ever singles match against each other. IWS held its fifth-anniversary show "V" on June 15, 2004, at Le SPAG, where Generico defeated PCO in an IWS title match for his first IWS World Heavyweight Championship, only to have Kevin Steen reclaim his number one contendership won earlier in
19855-548: The House of Truth, Roderick Strong, but after the match was attacked by Elgin and Martini. Colt Cabana came out to make the save but was stopped by the House of Truth's advantage in numbers. This led to Christopher Daniels coming out, but he ended up turning heel and hitting El Generico with the Book of Truth and Cabana with the Angel's Wings, thus joining the House of Truth and revealing himself as
20064-513: The IWS Canadian Championship, Fresh Air (Macrae Martin and Junior Benito) beat Amazingly Sweet for the IWS World Tag Team Championship, Katrina Creed won the IWS World Women's Championship against Mel Havok, while Tull defeated Ben Ortmanns in an IWS World Heavyweight Championship Match. On October 28 at Freedom To Fight, Benjamin Tull defeated Aiden Prince at Studio TD. On January 20, 2024 at Praise
20273-538: The IWS Tag Team Championship was first contested internationally in a 4-Way Elimination Match, when The Flying Hurricanes successfully defended their title at CZW Only The Strong: Scarred 4 Life held in Pennsylvania . On February 19, 2005, El Generico took part in the Tag World Grand Prix , where he teamed with Kevin Steen as Team IWS. On February 26, 2006, SeXXXy Eddy teamed with Kevin Steen as Team IWS in
20482-792: The IWS Training Centre, featuring Vanessa Kraven . IWS runs a professional wrestling school in Montréal , Québec . In late 2014, the promotion inaugurated the IWS Dojo in a MMA training facility in LaSalle . The schools are currently located at the IWS Training Centre in Montréal-Nord and IWS South Shore in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu . Shayne Hawke operates as head trainer of
20691-729: The IWS World Heavyweight Championship against Tony Deppen , while Nick Gage, Rina Yamashita , and Mance Warner defeated SeXXXy Eddy, Green Phantom, and PCP Crazy F'N Manny in a Fans Bring The Weapons Match. On May 27 at First Blood, Amazingly Sweet (Kristara and Alex Maze) defeated Casanova Productions for IWS World Tag Team Championship, while TDT beat Wasted Youth (Marcus Mathers and Dyln McKay). On July 15 at Scarred 4 Life, Jordan Oliver successfully defended his JCW World Championship against Karl Jepson, Maki Itoh beat Vanessa Kraven , while LuFisto and PCP Crazy F'N Manny defeated BUSSY ( Allie Katch and Effy) at L'Olympia. On August 5 at Hardcore Heat, Matt Viviani defeated Green Phantom for
20900-635: The IWS World Heavyweight Championship at Violent Valentine. On March 22, at Know Your Enemies, Generico lost the IWS World Heavyweight Championship to Steen a three-way match also involving Max Boyer . In 2004, members of the IWS started making appearances in the popular independent company Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). El Generico held the PWG World Tag Team Championship five times with four different partners: with Human Tornado as 2 Skinny Black Guys, Quicksilver as Cape Fear, Kevin Steen , and Paul London as ¡Peligro Abejas! . Generico
21109-558: The IWS World Heavyweight Championship, while Green Phantom, Mathieu St-Jacques, PCP Crazy F'N Manny & SeXXXy Eddy defeated BUSSY (Allie Katch & Effy), Jimmy Lloyd & Joey Janela in Ultimate Death. On May 4 at Freedom To Fight, Karl Jepson successfully defended the IWS World Heavyweight Championship against Ben Ortmanns. On July 7, IWS & GCW presents IWS vs GCW: Scarred 4 Life at L'Olympia, featuring PCP Crazy F'N Manny vs Nick Gage. The promotion gained global exposure during
21318-762: The IWS World Women's Championship. On March 12, 2022, Un F'N Sanctioned Part 2.0 at MTelus , featured the return of 2.0 (representing the Jericho Appreciation Society ). IWS held its Biggest Show Ever at Scarred 4 Life, on August 6 at L'Olympia, where Mike Bailey defeated Joey Janela , Mel Havok became IWS World Women's Champion against Ruby Soho , Kristara and Veda Scott. On October 15 at Freedom To Fight, Minoru Suzuki defeated Kevin Blanchard in his first Canadian appearance. On December 3 at Season's Beatings, IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jay White defeated Zak Patterson. On January 21, 2023 at Praise
21527-430: The Intercontinental Championship for the third time in his career. On the March 4 episode of SmackDown , Zayn lost the title to Ricochet after interference from Knoxville, ending his reign at 21 days (recognized by WWE as 13 days). Zayn then challenged Knoxville to a match at WrestleMania 38 which was made official shortly after. The following week, Zayn failed to regain the Intercontinental Championship from Ricochet in
21736-420: The Intercontinental Championship to Raw; Strowman attacked Zayn before the match and attacked him until Foley came out to stop the match. On the November 28 episode of Raw , during Strowman's match, Zayn attacked Strowman, leading to a faceoff between him and Foley. On the December 12 episode of Raw , after Zayn defeated Jinder Mahal, he refused to be traded to SmackDown and wanted a match with Strowman. The match
21945-424: The Intercontinental Championship. On the January 7, 2022, episode of SmackDown , Zayn entered a feud with Johnny Knoxville after Knoxville announced he would be entering the Royal Rumble match . At Royal Rumble on January 29, Zayn entered at No. 8, eliminating Knoxville before he was eliminated by AJ Styles . On the February 18 (taped February 11) episode of SmackDown , Zayn defeated Shinsuke Nakamura to win
22154-457: The March 6 episode of Raw , where he hit Zayn with a superkick, then proceeding to beat him along with Jimmy and Solo Sikoa . On the March 17 episode of SmackDown , Cody Rhodes invited Zayn and Owens to hash it out so that they can reunite to fight against The Bloodline, but Owens again declined to team up with Zayn. Later that night, Zayn confronted Jey in the ring and was beaten up by The Usos, and Owens ran out to save Zayn and embraced him. At
22363-516: The March 7 episode of Raw , Zayn made a surprise return to the main roster and attacked Owens, who was attempting to attack Neville after their match. This led to a tag team match on SmackDown , in which Zayn and Neville defeated Owens and The Miz . Zayn continued to score victories against the likes of The Miz and Stardust . At WrestleMania 32 on April 3, Zayn competed against Owens, Dolph Ziggler , The Miz , Stardust , Sin Cara and Zack Ryder in
22572-504: The May 22 episode of NXT , first defeating Curt Hawkins in the opening match and then challenging and scoring an upset win over Antonio Cesaro later in the show. The following week, he took part in an 18-man battle royal to determine the number one contender to the NXT Championship , but was eliminated by Mason Ryan . On the June 12 episode of NXT , Zayn suffered his first pinfall loss in NXT in
22781-466: The Middle East and North Africa have become a badge of sophistication and modernity and ... feigning, or asserting, weakness or lack of facility in Arabic is sometimes paraded as a sign of status, class, and perversely, even education through a mélange of code-switching practises." Arabic has been taught worldwide in many elementary and secondary schools, especially Muslim schools. Universities around
22990-461: The Money in the Bank ladder match. At Money in the Bank on May 19, Zayn was attacked backstage and left unable to compete by what was believed to be Braun Strowman, however it was later revealed to be Brock Lesnar , who took Zayn's place in the match. After the event, Zayn began teaming with Owens again, and they defeated The New Day ( Big E and Xavier Woods ) at Stomping Grounds on June 23. However,
23199-595: The November 13 episode of NXT in which Neville appeared to injure himself during the match, but he took advantage on Zayn checking on him to win the match and retain the title. Neville agreed to Zayn's request for a title rematch, with Zayn vowing to quit NXT if he lost. At NXT TakeOver: R Evolution on December 11, Zayn defeated Neville to win the NXT Championship, and was congratulated by many other NXT wrestlers afterwards, including Neville and Kevin Owens (the former Kevin Steen). The show ended with Owens powerbombing Zayn onto
23408-422: The October 16 episode of Raw that he will show the world what he can do on his own, until he was interrupted by The Judgment Day , but was able to fend them off alongside Jey Uso , starting a feud with the stable in the process. Zayn had his first match since splitting from Kevin Owens on the October 23 episode of RAW against Drew McIntyre in a losing effort after some outside interference from Rhea Ripley . On
23617-504: The October 2 episode of SmackDown , Zayn defeated Hardy to retain the title. On the November 13 episode of SmackDown , Zayn retained the title against Apollo Crews by countout. At Survivor Series on November 22, Zayn lost to United States Champion Bobby Lashley in a champion vs. champion match. On the December 25 episode of SmackDown , he lost the Intercontinental Championship to Big E , ending his second reign at 89 days. At Royal Rumble on January 31, 2021, Zayn entered at No. 3 but
23826-511: The October 30 episode of Raw , as Ripley, "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio , and JD McDonagh were in the ring, Zayn interrupted them, and stated that despite being alone, he would continue to fight The Judgment Day until the group ended. Following that, Judgment Day attempted to attack Zayn, however, Zayn escaped. Later that night, a match between McDonagh and Zayn was announced for the Crown Jewel Kickoff show, and Zayn took on Damian Priest in
24035-672: The Qur'an is referred to by linguists as "Quranic Arabic", as distinct from its codification soon thereafter into " Classical Arabic ". In late pre-Islamic times, a transdialectal and transcommunal variety of Arabic emerged in the Hejaz , which continued living its parallel life after literary Arabic had been institutionally standardized in the 2nd and 3rd century of the Hijra , most strongly in Judeo-Christian texts, keeping alive ancient features eliminated from
24244-473: The ROH World Tag Team Championship to The American Wolves (Eddie Edwards and Davey Richards). Generico then suffered a knee injury, sustaining damage to his Medial collateral ligament . On December 19, 2009, at Final Battle 2009 , ROH's first live pay-per-view, after a loss to The Young Bucks , Steen turned heel by attacking El Generico. He then formed a team with Colt Cabana and together
24453-561: The Romance languages. Also, while it is comprehensible to people from the Maghreb , a linguistically innovative variety such as Moroccan Arabic is essentially incomprehensible to Arabs from the Mashriq , much as French is incomprehensible to Spanish or Italian speakers but relatively easily learned by them. This suggests that the spoken varieties may linguistically be considered separate languages. With
24662-400: The Royal Rumble on January 29, Zayn entered at No. 8 and lasted over 47 minutes before being eliminated by The Undertaker . On the January 30 episode of Raw , Zayn defeated United States Champion Chris Jericho in a non-title match, but failed to win the title the following week. On the February 13 episode of Raw , Zayn responded to comments made by Samoa Joe during a backstage interview, and
24871-537: The Super Smash Bros. (Player Uno and Stupefied). From 2005 onwards, El Generico has made several appearances for the German Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) promotion. On March 4, 2012, El Generico defeated Tommy End to win wXw's 2012 16 Carat Gold Tournament. On May 19, El Generico defeated Big van Walter to also win the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship . On August 12, 2012, he lost
25080-554: The Tag Team Invitational Gauntlet Match for the IWS World Tag Team Championship. On February 4, 2017 at Freedom To Fight, Scott Parker defeated Black Dynomite in an IWS Championship Unification Match. On August 5 at Scarred 4 Life, Stefany Sinclair became the first-ever IWS Women's Champion and TDT (Tabarnak De Team) successfully defended the IWS World Tag Team Championship against The Young Bucks . At First Blood on November 4, Franky TM faced Johnny Mundo to
25289-475: The Violence on April 8, 2000. In 2000, the promotion was renamed Internet Wrestling Syndicate , as Manny partnered with Wild Rose Productions, a Montreal-based Internet adult entertainment company owned by Carol Cox. The first IWS show Change, was held at Just For Laughs Cabaret on November 10, featuring PCP Crazy F'N Manny versus Danny Dallas, in the first of only three No-Rope Barbed Wire matches in IWS history. IWS held its first seasonal Medley show at Praise
25498-399: The Violence on March 31, 2001. On May 25, IWS began promoting shows at Le Skratch in Laval , becoming its primary venue for the next two years. Two months later, at Un F'N Sanctioned, Hardcore Ninjaz faced PCP Crazy F'N Manny and The Green Phantom in the first IWS Fans Bring The Weapons Match. On November 10 at Born to Bleed, Justice Pain defeated Hardcore Ninja #1 and Hardcore Ninja #2 in
25707-596: The Violence the IWS representative for both the King of Europe Cup and wXw 16 Carat Gold Tournament . On February 17, Max Boyer teamed with fellow IWS performers Scott Parker and Shane Matthews in the first ever King of Trios tournament. On February and March 2008, El Generico took part in the King of Trios , where he teamed with Player Uno and Stupefied as Team IWS. On November 7 at ROH The French Connection, Stupefied defeated The Green Phantom, Excess & Dan Paysan in an IWS 4-Way Dark Match. On July 4, 2015, IWS announced
25916-420: The Violence, Casanova Productions (Shayne Hawke and JT Producer, with Matt Viviani) defeated Black Quebecois for the IWS World Tag Team Championship, Benjamin Tull retained the IWS World Heavyweight Championship against Effy , while post-match Mance Warner attacked PCP Crazy F'N Manny in the name of GCW . On March 11, at IWS vs GCW: Un F'N Sanctioned, Mike Bailey defeated Gringo Loco, Tull successfully defended
26125-494: The Violence, Tull defeated James Stone, Karl Jepson and Rina Yamashita in an IWS World Heavyweight Championship Four Way Match. On March 2, IWS celebrated its 25th anniversary with Un F'N Sanctioned at L'Olympia, where the Bay City Choir Boys (Judas & Seth Cassidy) defeated Amazingly Sweet and Dynasty (Jaxon Roy & Mikey Truth) in a Three Way Match for the vacant IWS World Tag Team Championship, Karl Jepson beat Tull for
26334-475: The WWE Championship at Fastlane , which ended in a double disqualification after Styles, who was on commentary, attacked Zayn and Owens, leading to SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan scheduling a triple threat match for the WWE Championship involving both Owens and Zayn. Zayn then said he would lay down for Owens, only for Zayn to pin Owens in a fatal five-way match. At Fastlane on March 11, Styles retained
26543-409: The WWE Championship in the six-pack challenge. On the March 20 episode of SmackDown , Zayn and Owens were (kayfabe) fired by Bryan as punishment for an attack against McMahon the week prior. At WrestleMania 34 on April 8, Owens and Zayn lost to Bryan and McMahon, and would have been rehired to SmackDown if they won. On the following Raw , as free agents, they asked Raw General Manager Kurt Angle for
26752-525: The World and World Tag Team titles not once, but twice at the same time. In mid-2009, Generico entered a lengthy feud with the tag team Men of Low Moral Fiber, consisting of Kenny Omega and Chuck Taylor , recruiting Colt Cabana , referee Rick Knox , and former partner Human Tornado (effectively reuniting 2 Skinny Black Guys) to stand by his side. At PWG's sixth anniversary event, Threemendous II , 2 Skinny Black Guys defeated current champions The Young Bucks in
26961-567: The conversion of Semitic mimation to nunation in the singular. It is best reassessed as a separate language on the Central Semitic dialect continuum. It was also thought that Old Arabic coexisted alongside—and then gradually displaced— epigraphic Ancient North Arabian (ANA), which was theorized to have been the regional tongue for many centuries. ANA, despite its name, was considered a very distinct language, and mutually unintelligible, from "Arabic". Scholars named its variant dialects after
27170-577: The emergence of Central Semitic languages, particularly in grammar. Innovations of the Central Semitic languages—all maintained in Arabic—include: There are several features which Classical Arabic, the modern Arabic varieties, as well as the Safaitic and Hismaic inscriptions share which are unattested in any other Central Semitic language variety, including the Dadanitic and Taymanitic languages of
27379-427: The end El Generico won the match and thus forced Steen out of Ring of Honor. On March 2, 2011, ROH announced that El Generico had signed a new contract with the promotion. On April 1 at the first night of Honor Takes Center Stage , El Generico was defeated by Michael Elgin from the House of Truth following interference from a masked man, led by Truth Martini . The following day, El Generico defeated another member of
27588-728: The eve of the conquests: Northern and Central (Al-Jallad 2009). The modern dialects emerged from a new contact situation produced following the conquests. Instead of the emergence of a single or multiple koines, the dialects contain several sedimentary layers of borrowed and areal features, which they absorbed at different points in their linguistic histories. According to Veersteegh and Bickerton, colloquial Arabic dialects arose from pidginized Arabic formed from contact between Arabs and conquered peoples. Pidginization and subsequent creolization among Arabs and arabized peoples could explain relative morphological and phonological simplicity of vernacular Arabic compared to Classical and MSA. In around
27797-469: The event) and Franky The Mobster beat PCO, Paranoid Jake Matthews and Brick Crawford . On November 3 at Freedom to Fight, Christopher Daniels defeated IWS Canadian Champion Max Boyer in a Non-Title Match. On February 16, 2008 at Violent Valentine, El Generico defeated Kevin Steen for the IWS World Heavyweight Championship. On March 22 at Know Your Enemies, Kevin Steen regained the IWS World Heavyweight Championship, defeating Max Boyer and El Generico in
28006-434: The event, it was reported that Zayn had surgery to repair both of his rotator cuffs. He was later reported to have undergone a successful double shoulder surgery. After ten months of inactivity due to injury, Zayn returned on the April 8, 2019, episode of Raw , losing to Intercontinental Champion Finn Bálor. The following week, Zayn defeated Strowman with the help of Baron Corbin and Drew McIntyre , earning Strowman's spot in
28215-593: The fact that they participate in the innovations common to all forms of Arabic. The earliest attestation of continuous Arabic text in an ancestor of the modern Arabic script are three lines of poetry by a man named Garm(')allāhe found in En Avdat, Israel , and dated to around 125 CE. This is followed by the Namara inscription , an epitaph of the Lakhmid king Imru' al-Qays bar 'Amro, dating to 328 CE, found at Namaraa, Syria. From
28424-426: The final 3-Way with Necro Butcher & Wifebeater. On September 11 at High Stakes II, SeXXXy Eddy defeated Kevin Steen, El Generico & Excess 69 in an IWS 4-Way Match, which was unofficially chosen as "CZW Match of the Year". At Season's Beatings on December 18, Gran Akuma , Mike Quackenbush and Shane Storm defeated Jack Marciano and The Dark Breed ( Hallowicked , UltraMantis Black ). On February 5, 2005
28633-519: The final match of the tournament to Claudio Castagnoli. After the feud with the Briscoes ended, Generico and Steen spent several months feuding with the Hangmen Three in an inconclusive feud that carried on into 2008. They also worked through the tag ranks and attempted to win the tag titles, but came up short in a tag title tournament at Up For Grabs . Generico took ROH World champion Nigel McGuinness to
28842-512: The finals of the tournament by The Young Bucks. On February 19, 2005, El Generico made his debut for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania –based promotion Chikara , taking part in the 2005 Tag World Grand Prix , where he teamed with Kevin Steen as Team IWS. The team made it to the quarterfinals of the tournament, before being defeated by the SuperFriends (Chris Hero and Mike Quackenbush ). El Generico returned to Chikara three years later to take part in
29051-537: The finals to win the tournament, becoming the first person to have won the PWG World and World Tag Team championships as well as the DDT4 and Battle of Los Angeles tournaments. In the process, Generico also earned himself a match for Steen's PWG World Championship. On October 22, El Generico defeated Steen in a ladder match , following outside interference from The Young Bucks, to win the PWG World Championship for
29260-510: The first IWS Women's Championship international contest, and The Green Phantom defeated Nick Gage and Matt Tremont in a Hardcore Match. On April 27 at Freedom To Fight, Sheldon Jean defeated Ethan Page , and TDT defeated Santana and Ortiz . On November 8 at One Night Only, TDT defeated Private Party in an IWS World Tag Team Championship Match. On February 8, 2020 at Praise the Violence, Matt Angel defeated Mike Bailey in an IWS World Heavyweight Championship Ladder Match. Un F'N Sanctioned
29469-490: The first round but lost to Finn Bálor in the semi-finals. On November 6, Zayn was announced as a part of Team SmackDown at Survivor Series , however, on the November 12 episode of SmackDown , Zayn faced Jeff Hardy in a match with the stipulation that whoever lost was removed from the SmackDown Survivor Series team, which Zayn lost, thus removing him. On the November 26 episode of SmackDown , Zayn would compete in
29678-514: The first round by The Osirian Portal (Amasis, Hieracon and Ophidian). The following day El Generico entered his second Rey de Voladores and defeated Pinkie Sanchez, Zack Sabre Jr. and Marshe Rockett in his four-way elimination semifinal match to qualify for the following day's finals. The following day El Generico defeated the 1–2–3 Kid in the finals to win the 2011 Rey de Voladores . El Generico returned to Chikara on July 30, 2011, when he reunited ¡3.0le! with Scott Parker and Shane Matthews in
29887-547: The following day at Evolve 15 was won by Samuray. El Generico returned to Dragon Gate USA on July 28, when he and Samuray were defeated in a tag team match by A. R. Fox and Cima. On September 8, El Generico and Samuray del Sol faced off in another Evolve main event, which was won by El Generico. On November 4 at Dragon Gate USA's Freedom Fight 2012, El Generico teamed with Samuray in a tag team match, where they defeated Genki Horiguchi and Ryo Saito . The two continued their winning ways on December 8 at Evolve 18, where they defeated
30096-501: The fourth most useful language for business, after English, Mandarin Chinese , and French. Arabic is written with the Arabic alphabet , an abjad script that is written from right to left . Arabic is usually classified as a Central Semitic language . Linguists still differ as to the best classification of Semitic language sub-groups. The Semitic languages changed between Proto-Semitic and
30305-579: The inclusion of new words into their published standard dictionaries. They also publish old and historical Arabic manuscripts. In 1997, a bureau of Arabization standardization was added to the Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization of the Arab League . These academies and organizations have worked toward the Arabization of the sciences, creating terms in Arabic to describe new concepts, toward
30514-432: The kickoff show. On the September 12 episode of Raw , Zayn appeared on Chris Jericho's Highlight Reel segment, where he was attacked by Jericho, leading to a match at Clash of Champions on September 25, which Jericho won. On the October 17 episode of Raw , Zayn began a feud with Braun Strowman after preventing him from confronting Raw General Manager Mick Foley . On the October 31 episode of Raw , Zayn participated in
30723-608: The language. Software and books with tapes are an important part of Arabic learning, as many of Arabic learners may live in places where there are no academic or Arabic language school classes available. Radio series of Arabic language classes are also provided from some radio stations. A number of websites on the Internet provide online classes for all levels as a means of distance education; most teach Modern Standard Arabic, but some teach regional varieties from numerous countries. The tradition of Arabic lexicography extended for about
30932-606: The last show of its first-run at Le Skratch. On June 15, 2004 at Le SPAG, IWS held its 5th anniversary show "V", where Sid Vicious made his in-ring return from having suffered his near career-ending injury in WCW . During the event, El Generico defeated PCO in an IWS Title Match for his first IWS Heavyweight Championship, only to have Kevin Steen claim his #1 contendership won earlier that night against Excess 69. Kevin Steen defeated El Generico, also winning his first IWS Heavyweight Championship. Kevin Steen's first title reign in 2004, marked
31141-732: The late '90s & early 2000s wrestling boom, by streaming video on demand on a monthly show entitled Bloodstream , and has been featured on Playboy TV , Fight Network & Viewer's Choice Canada on pay-per-view . IWS has run spot shows for outdoor events such as the Montreal Fringe Festival , Warped Tour , '77 Montreal & Heavy MONTRÉAL . Their shows are currently jointly promoted with entertainment event promoter Evenko , distributed on DVD through Smart Mark Video & RF Video, merchandising with Pro Wrestling Tees , and available on video on demand with Triller TV . IWS announced on September 2, 2017, production of
31350-599: The late 6th century AD, a relatively uniform intertribal "poetic koine" distinct from the spoken vernaculars developed based on the Bedouin dialects of Najd , probably in connection with the court of al-Ḥīra . During the first Islamic century, the majority of Arabic poets and Arabic-writing persons spoke Arabic as their mother tongue. Their texts, although mainly preserved in far later manuscripts, contain traces of non-standardized Classical Arabic elements in morphology and syntax. Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali ( c. 603 –689)
31559-420: The latter is taught in formal education settings. However, there have been studies reporting some degree of comprehension of stories told in the standard variety among preschool-aged children. The relation between Modern Standard Arabic and these dialects is sometimes compared to that of Classical Latin and Vulgar Latin vernaculars (which became Romance languages ) in medieval and early modern Europe. MSA
31768-488: The latter's debut match. Both men were given a standing ovation and both showed respect and embraced each other following a critically acclaimed match, and while Nakamura left the ring, Zayn was left waving goodbye to the live audience, signaling his final appearance in NXT. On January 24, 2016, at the Royal Rumble , Zayn competed in the Rumble match at No. 20, eliminating Kevin Owens before being eliminated by Braun Strowman . On
31977-467: The limit at Age of Insanity , but eventually lost. On September 19, 2008, Generico and Steen finally won the ROH World Tag Team Championship by beating The Age of the Fall at Driven . Generico lost a second match to McGuinness at Glory by Honor VII . Generico was booked in another match against McGuinness at Caged Collision , which he lost. On April 10, 2009, at a television taping, Generico and Steen lost
32186-421: The live crowd following the match. However, Zayn had injured his shoulder before the match and underwent an MRI for further analysis. At NXT TakeOver: Unstoppable on May 20, Zayn's NXT Championship rematch against Kevin Owens ended in a no contest when Zayn was unable to continue the match. Owens continued assaulting Zayn until the debuting Samoa Joe made the save. This was used to write Zayn off television as he
32395-483: The main event of WrestleMania 39 night one, Zayn and Owens defeated The Usos to win the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship (consisting of both the Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships ). This match also marked the first time a tag team match main evented WrestleMania since its inaugural show, as well as the first time the tag team titles headlined the event. The critically acclaimed match
32604-573: The main event of several pay-per-view events, including WrestleMania 39 , where he became one half of the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions (the Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships) alongside longtime best friend Kevin Owens . Rami Sebei was born on July 12, 1984, in Laval , Quebec , Canada to Syrian migrants who relocated from Homs to Laval in the 1970s. Sebei trained under Jerry Tuite and Savio Vega and made his professional wrestling debut on March 1, 2002, for
32813-637: The main roster. Zayn then gave Chad Gable a title shot on the April 15 episode of Raw as a token of gratitude for assisting him in defeating Gunther, where Zayn successfully defended the title. As he was celebrating with his wife at ringside after the match, Gable would attack him in front of his wife. On the April 29 episode of Raw, Zayn defended his title against Bronson Reed , which he won by disqualification after Gable attacked him. One week later, Zayn attacked Gable during his match with Reed, causing another disqualification. Later that night, Zayn announced that he would defend his title against Gable and Reed in
33022-517: The man who had cost El Generico his match against Elgin. On June 26 at Best in the World 2011 , Generico defeated Daniels to win the ROH World Television Championship . He lost the title to Jay Lethal on August 13 at the first Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings under the Sinclair Broadcast Group banner. On March 30, 2012, at Showdown in the Sun , El Generico faced the reinstated Kevin Steen in
33231-883: The many national or regional varieties which constitute the everyday spoken language. Colloquial Arabic has many regional variants; geographically distant varieties usually differ enough to be mutually unintelligible , and some linguists consider them distinct languages. However, research indicates a high degree of mutual intelligibility between closely related Arabic variants for native speakers listening to words, sentences, and texts; and between more distantly related dialects in interactional situations. The varieties are typically unwritten. They are often used in informal spoken media, such as soap operas and talk shows , as well as occasionally in certain forms of written media such as poetry and printed advertising. Hassaniya Arabic , Maltese , and Cypriot Arabic are only varieties of modern Arabic to have acquired official recognition. Hassaniya
33440-431: The masked El Local and defeated Dallas to earn his title shot. The match occurred on the October 16 episode of NXT , but NXT General Manager John Bradshaw Layfield restarted the match when Zayn won despite Dallas' foot being on the ropes and then Dallas sent Zayn into an exposed turnbuckle to retain his title. In November 2013, after tying a Beat the Clock challenge with Adrian Neville by defeating Leo Kruger, Zayn lost
33649-417: The match. Zayn then feuded with Corey Graves , with Zayn losing to Graves via referee stoppage on the April 3 episode of NXT after Graves capitalized on Zayn's head injury. On the May 8 episode of NXT , Zayn participated in a 20-man battle royal for an NXT Championship shot, with Zayn being involved in a triple threat match tie. As a result, Zayn faced the other two winners, Tyler Breeze and Tyson Kidd in
33858-624: The need for a lexical injection in Arabic, to suit concepts of the industrial and post-industrial age (such as sayyārah سَيَّارَة 'automobile' or bākhirah باخِرة 'steamship'). In response, a number of Arabic academies modeled after the Académie française were established with the aim of developing standardized additions to the Arabic lexicon to suit these transformations, first in Damascus (1919), then in Cairo (1932), Baghdad (1948), Rabat (1960), Amman (1977), Khartum [ ar ] (1993), and Tunis (1993). They review language development, monitor new words and approve
34067-479: The night against Excess 69. Generico lost to Steen for the IWS World Heavyweight Championship . On September 11 at CZW High Stakes II, Generico, Steen and Excess 69 lost to SeXXXy Eddy in an IWS four-way match which was unofficially chosen as "CZW Match of the Year". On August 20, 2005, at Extreme Dream II, Generico lost to Chris Bishop in the Extreme Dream Tournament final match for the IWS Canadian Championship. On February 16, 2008, Generico defeated Kevin Steen for
34276-405: The number one contender for WWE Championship after losing a six-pack challenge. Zayn defeated Baron Corbin at Backlash on May 21. Zayn was later announced as one of the participants in the Money in the Bank ladder match at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view on June 18 along with AJ Styles, Corbin, Dolph Ziggler, Kevin Owens and Shinsuke Nakamura , in which he was unsuccessful in winning. Zayn
34485-424: The one whose sound is heard but whose person remains unseen. Now the term al-hatif is used for a telephone. Therefore, the process of tawleed can express the needs of modern civilization in a manner that would appear to be originally Arabic. In the case of Arabic, educated Arabs of any nationality can be assumed to speak both their school-taught Standard Arabic as well as their native dialects, which depending on
34694-473: The opening four-way elimination match, El Generico and Samuray del Sol were victorious over Cam!kaze and Pete Wilson, Brian Cage and Trent Barreta , and Andrew Hawkes and Ryan Rollins. As a result, the two earned a spot in the main event ten man tag team match, where they teamed with Barreta, Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Jack Evans in a losing effort against the team of Teddy Hart , Brian Cage, Cam!kaze, Flip Kendrick and Pete Wilson, with Generico being pinned for
34903-549: The overhaul of Arabic grammar first proposed by Al-Jahiz 200 years prior. The Maghrebi lexicographer Ibn Manzur compiled Lisān al-ʿArab ( لسان العرب , "Tongue of Arabs"), a major reference dictionary of Arabic, in 1290. Charles Ferguson 's koine theory claims that the modern Arabic dialects collectively descend from a single military koine that sprang up during the Islamic conquests; this view has been challenged in recent times. Ahmad al-Jallad proposes that there were at least two considerably distinct types of Arabic on
35112-449: The past, IWS shows have had international championships defended on them and on some occasions, wrestlers have held both IWS and international championships simultaneously. On July 24, 2004, SeXXXy Eddy, The Green Phantom, Evil Ninja & The Arsenal entered the CZW Tournament of Death III . In the semi-finals, Eddy defeated The Arsenal in a Light Tube Ropes & Corners Match, where he cut an artery in his left forearm, thereby forfeiting
35321-401: The referee out of the ring as he went on to win and retain his title. This caused tension within Neville and Zayn's friendship. After Zayn lost another match, this time to Titus O'Neil , he vowed to start a "road to redemption" leading to the NXT Championship, which saw him defeat Tyson Kidd, Titus O'Neil and Tyler Breeze in singles matches. Zayn was rewarded with a title match against Neville on
35530-410: The region may be mutually unintelligible. Some of these dialects can be considered to constitute separate languages which may have "sub-dialects" of their own. When educated Arabs of different dialects engage in conversation (for example, a Moroccan speaking with a Lebanese), many speakers code-switch back and forth between the dialectal and standard varieties of the language, sometimes even within
35739-436: The ring apron to ruin their reunion. Zayn retained the title against Neville in a rematch on the January 14, 2015, episode of NXT , but suffered another post-match attack by Owens. After an irate Zayn demanded a match against Owens, even if it meant putting the title on the line, a title match was set for NXT TakeOver: Rival . At the event on February 11, Owens captured the title from Zayn via referee stoppage, having powerbombed
35948-458: The same sentence. The issue of whether Arabic is one language or many languages is politically charged, in the same way it is for the varieties of Chinese , Hindi and Urdu , Serbian and Croatian , Scots and English, etc. In contrast to speakers of Hindi and Urdu who claim they cannot understand each other even when they can, speakers of the varieties of Arabic will claim they can all understand each other even when they cannot. While there
36157-867: The school. The school has presented seminars by wrestlers such as WWE Hall of Famer Jake "The Snake" Roberts , "Speedball" Mike Bailey , Bob Evans , Pete Dunne , Trent Seven , Tyler Bate , Mike Quackenbush , Tessa Blanchard , Gabe Sapolsky , and UFC Hall of Famer Stephan Bonnar . Former Canadian strongman , Maxim Lemire credited the IWS Training Centre in preparation to his WWE tryout, held during SummerSlam weekend in Toronto . On August 24–25, 2019, IWS hosted Mike Quackenbush's Master Class Weekend. IWS has collaborated with various international wrestling promotions including Combat Zone Wrestling , Jersey All Pro Wrestling , Chikara , Westside Xtreme Wrestling , Game Changer Wrestling , Pro Wrestling Guerrilla , DDT Pro-Wrestling , Ring of Honor , AAA , New Japan Pro-Wrestling , AEW and WWE . In
36366-415: The second night of WrestleMania 37 on April 11 but defeated him in a rematch at Hell in a Cell on June 20. On the July 2 episode of SmackDown , Zayn failed to qualify for the men's Money in the Bank ladder match at the namesake event after losing to Owens in a Last Man Standing match , ending their rivalry. In October, Zayn entered the King of the Ring tournament, where he defeated Rey Mysterio in
36575-458: The second time. On March 17, 2012, El Generico re-lost the title to Steen in a three-way match, which also included Eddie Edwards . After agreeing to a deal with WWE , El Generico made his farewell appearance for PWG on January 12, 2013, when he and Kevin Steen entered the 2013 Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament . After wins over the Briscoe Brothers and Future Shock ( Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly ), El Generico and Steen were defeated in
36784-522: The show's main event where he lost via disqualification after Jey Uso took out Priest while fending off the other members of The Judgment Day. At the Crown Jewel Kickoff Show, Zayn would defeat McDonagh. At Survivor Series: WarGames , Zayn teamed up with Jey Uso, Cody Rhodes , Seth "Freakin" Rollins and the returning Randy Orton in a WarGames match against The Judgment Day's Damian Priest, JD McDonagh, "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio and Finn Bálor , and Drew McIntyre, where Zayn's team would emerge victorious. In
36993-458: The sole example of Medieval linguist Abu Hayyan al-Gharnati – who, while a scholar of the Arabic language, was not ethnically Arab – Medieval scholars of the Arabic language made no efforts at studying comparative linguistics, considering all other languages inferior. In modern times, the educated upper classes in the Arab world have taken a nearly opposite view. Yasir Suleiman wrote in 2011 that "studying and knowing English or French in most of
37202-418: The stable that was led by Roman Reigns . On the May 27 episode of SmackDown , after helping the group on a couple of occasions, Zayn was deemed an "Honorary Uce" and became an associate of the group. On the June 24 episode of SmackDown , Zayn defeated Shinsuke Nakamura to qualify for the Money in the Bank ladder match . At the eponymous event on July 2, Zayn failed to win as the match was won by Theory . On
37411-498: The standardization of these new terms throughout the Arabic-speaking world, and toward the development of Arabic as a world language . This gave rise to what Western scholars call Modern Standard Arabic. From the 1950s, Arabization became a postcolonial nationalist policy in countries such as Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Sudan. Arabic usually refers to Standard Arabic, which Western linguists divide into Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic. It could also refer to any of
37620-417: The team of Drew McIntyre , Kevin Owens, and The Brawling Brutes (Sheamus, Butch , and Ridge Holland ) in a WarGames match . After the match, due to Zayn showing his loyalty to the stable by delivering a low blow to Owens, Jey finally accepted Zayn as part of The Bloodline and the stable celebrated. In January 2023, Zayn would be in a conflict with The Bloodline, which led to a Tribal Court for Zayn at Raw
37829-513: The team of Zayn and Owens drifted apart again after Owens turned face and reignited his feud with Shane McMahon. After their team disbanded, Zayn lost to Rey Mysterio twice, first at Raw Reunion , and second in the gauntlet match the following week. Zayn then competed in the King of the Ring tournament, but lost in the first round to Cedric Alexander . On the August 20 episode of SmackDown Live , Zayn joined forces with Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura after attacking The Miz . Zayn
38038-484: The television network's primary feed. RDS aired the final episode of La Lutte à RDS on March 28, 2021. IWS announced on April 12, 2019, production of a pre-recorded television program for Fight Network . The first tapings were held at Freedom To Fight at Club Unity on April 27, 2019. The first broadcast of the bimonthly program Bloodstream , aired on September 13, 2019. On October 4, 2019, Bloodstream premiered on Fight Network UK . On January 6, 2020, IWS announced
38247-406: The third night of the tournament, El Generico was defeated by Arik Cannon in a singles match. El Generico's next appearance for Chikara occurred almost two years later on January 23, 2011, when he faced Eddie Kingston in a losing effort. For the 2011 King of Trios El Generico came together with 3.0 (Scott Parker and Shane Matthews) to form ¡3.0le!. The team was eliminated from the tournament in
38456-589: The title to Axel Tischer in a four-way match, which also included Bad Bones and Karsten Beck. In October 2009 El Generico traveled to Poland to take part in Do or Die Wrestling's event in Warsaw, defeating Michael Kovac in the main event of the show. In May 2010, Generico competed in the main-event of Capital City Championship Combat's show, Stand Alone. On October 23, Generico competed at Pro Wrestling Superstars' inaugural show in Jacksonville, North Carolina, where he teamed with Paul London to defeat Joey Silvia and Jake Manning. On January 11, 2011, El Generico wrestled in
38665-461: The title to Breakker, ending his fourth reign at 119 days. On the August 12 episode of Raw, Zayn failed to regain the title from Breakker in a two out of three falls match ending their feud. Arabic language Arabic (endonym: اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ , romanized : al-ʿarabiyyah , pronounced [al ʕaraˈbijːa] , or عَرَبِيّ , ʿarabīy , pronounced [ˈʕarabiː] or [ʕaraˈbij] )
38874-414: The title to Kodaka on January 3, 2012. El Generico has also made some appearances for Union Pro's parent promotion, DDT Pro-Wrestling , most notably defeating Kota Ibushi in Ibushi's return match from a shoulder injury on May 4, 2012. On August 18, El Generico wrestled his first match in the Nippon Budokan , defeating the debuting Konosuke Takeshita . On September 30, El Generico defeated Kota Ibushi to win
39083-426: The title. On December 11, 2010, El Generico earned himself a shot at the PWG World Championship, when ¡Peligro Abejas! successfully defended the PWG World Tag Team Championship against Chris Hero and the PWG World Champion, Claudio Castagnoli , the team known collectively as The Kings of Wrestling . Generico received his shot at the PWG World Championship on January 29, 2011, during the WrestleReunion 5 weekend, but
39292-440: The titles against Imperium 's Giovanni Vinci and Ludwig Kaiser , Pretty Deadly , and The Judgment Day 's Damian Priest and Dominik Mysterio in several matches on Raw and SmackDown , but they lost the titles to The Judgment Day's Damian Priest and Finn Bálor in a Pittsburgh Steel City Street Fight at Payback after interference from fellow Judgment Day members, ending their reign at 154 days. They were unsuccessful in
39501-501: The towns where the inscriptions were discovered (Dadanitic, Taymanitic, Hismaic, Safaitic). However, most arguments for a single ANA language or language family were based on the shape of the definite article, a prefixed h-. It has been argued that the h- is an archaism and not a shared innovation, and thus unsuitable for language classification, rendering the hypothesis of an ANA language family untenable. Safaitic and Hismaic, previously considered ANA, should be considered Old Arabic due to
39710-411: The two men had a memorable showing that eventually earned them a full-time spot on the roster. Throughout 2007, the two teams feuded with one another, having several memorable matches including (but not limited to) a great match on the Driven pay-per-view, ROH's second-ever. Their feud came to an end following a brutal Street Fight at Death Before Dishonor V: Night 1 , a steel cage match at Caged Rage ,
39919-418: The two of them started a feud with Steen and his new partner Steve Corino . At the following pay-per-view, The Big Bang! , Generico and Cabana defeated Steen and Corino via disqualification when Steen used a chair on his former partner. On June 19 at Death Before Dishonor VIII , Steen defeated El Generico in a singles match. On September 11 at Glory By Honor IX Generico and Cabana defeated Steen and Corino in
40128-423: The win by Hart. In January 2013, Sebei signed with WWE after passing all medical tests. On February 13, Sebei made his debut for WWE's developmental territory NXT , but did not wrestle. Sebei's NXT in-ring debut took place at a live event on March 7 in Tampa, Florida , wrestling a tag team match unmasked under his real name. Sebei eventually settled on the ring name Sami Zayn . Zayn made his televised debut on
40337-452: The winner going on to face Ziggler for the title; Zayn defeated Rusev to earn the title match. On the November 15 episode of SmackDown Live , The Miz defeated Ziggler for the championship and Zayn instead faced The Miz for the Intercontinental Championship at Survivor Series on November 20, which Zayn lost. On the November 21 episode of Raw , Mick Foley ordered Zayn to compete in a match with Braun Strowman as punishment for failing to bring
40546-451: The world have classes that teach Arabic as part of their foreign languages , Middle Eastern studies , and religious studies courses. Arabic language schools exist to assist students to learn Arabic outside the academic world. There are many Arabic language schools in the Arab world and other Muslim countries. Because the Quran is written in Arabic and all Islamic terms are in Arabic, millions of Muslims (both Arab and non-Arab) study
40755-418: The world premiere of Celles qui luttent , directed by Sarah Baril Gaudet , for the Montreal International Documentary Festival , held at the Cinémathèque québécoise . On February 4, 2024, WWS held its inaugural event Caught in a Mosh at the IWS Training Centre, where Katrina Creed defeated Mya Malek in an IWS Women's Championship Match. On March 24, WWS presents Fight for your Life, Fight for your Money at
40964-443: The year, on September 16, they wrestled in a rematch and this time Markov was victorious. On September 8, 2012, Generico made an appearance for Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), unsuccessfully challenging Masada for the CZW World Heavyweight Championship . After signing with WWE, El Generico made his final Canadian independent appearance on January 18, 2013, when he worked for the Hart Legacy Wrestling (HLW) promotion in Calgary . In
41173-558: Was rated five stars by Dave Meltzer and became the eighth main roster WWE match to receive five stars, making it the first five star match in Zayn's career. On the April 28 episode of SmackDown , Zayn and Owens retained their Undisputed Tag Team Championship in a rematch against The Usos. As part of the 2023 WWE Draft , Zayn, along with Owens, was drafted to the Raw brand . At Night of Champions , Zayn and Owens retained their Undisputed Tag Team Championship against The Bloodline's Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa. Zayn and Owens then retained
41382-491: Was a loss to Homicide at Dragon Gate Invasion . Generico returned to ROH in late 2006, making an appearance at Dethroned , where he was defeated by Brent Albright . Following this, he took part in (and lost) a Four Corner Survival match to Jimmy Rave at Final Battle 2006 . In 2007, El Generico formed a permanent team with Kevin Steen, taking on the Briscoe Brothers at the Fifth Year Festival: Philly . Much like many previous matches, they were defeated in this encounter, but
41591-442: Was attacked by Joe. At Fastlane on March 5, Zayn lost to Joe. On the March 27 episode of Raw , Zayn defeated Owens in a no disqualification match to end their feud, saving his job and qualifying for Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 33 on April 2, which he failed to win. On April 11, Zayn was traded to SmackDown as part of the Superstar Shake-up . The following week on SmackDown Live , Zayn failed to become
41800-399: Was banned from being performed on Dawson College property following the events of April 23, 1999, when SeXXXy Eddy and PCP Crazy F'N Manny introduced foreign objects in a multi-competitor match. Eddy joined with Manny Elefthriou and Nic Paterson to form the World Wrestling Syndicate . WWS had their first show Blood, Sweat & Beers at Wally's on June 17, 1999. The last WWS show was Praise
42009-448: Was defeated by Castagnoli. On April 9, El Generico teamed with Ricochet , who filled in for London who was unable to appear at the event, in a match, where they lost the PWG World Tag Team Championship back to The Young Bucks. On August 20, Generico entered the 2011 Battle of Los Angeles , defeating Claudio Castagnoli and Willie Mack in his first round and semifinal matches. Later that same night, Generico defeated old rival Kevin Steen in
42218-499: Was eliminated by Big E. On the February 12 episode of SmackDown , Zayn teamed with King Corbin and defeated The Mysterios ( Rey Mysterio and Dominik Mysterio ) to qualify for the Elimination Chamber match at the namesake event . At the event on February 21, Zayn was the second man eliminated by Kevin Owens. His gimmick would be tweaked into a deranged conspiracy theorist who believed that WWE bosses were holding him down, and he soon reignited his feud with Owens. Zayn lost to Owens on
42427-411: Was made for Roadblock: End of the Line on December 18 with a time limit of 10 minutes, which Zayn won after completing 10 minutes. On the January 2, 2017, episode of Raw , Zayn lost a Last Man Standing match to Strowman, ending the feud. On the January 23 episode of Raw , Zayn defeated Seth Rollins to win Rollins' opportunity in the Royal Rumble match after Rollins was distracted by Triple H . At
42636-441: Was positioned as Nakamura's mouthpiece . At Clash of Champions on September 15, he helped Nakamura retain his title. As part of the 2019 draft , Zayn was drafted to the SmackDown brand. Following the draft, he would also become the manager of Cesaro . At Survivor Series on November 24, Zayn accompanied Nakamura in a non-title match against United States Champion AJ Styles and NXT North American Champion Roderick Strong , which
42845-453: Was saved by his friend, NXT Champion Adrian Neville. Zayn later defeated Kidd twice to end the feud, once in a singles match on the July 17 episode of NXT as well in a tag match with Adam Rose against Gabriel and Kidd, which was the first round of a tournament for an opportunity at the NXT Tag Team Championship. Zayn and Rose lost in the second round to The Lucha Dragons ( Kalisto and Sin Cara ). When Zayn, Kidd and Tyler Breeze each staked
43054-633: Was scheduled to be presented on March 21 at Club Soda , featuring the return of former IWS World Tag Team Champions Moustache Mountain , Rey Horus , and NXT Cruiserweight Champion Jordan Devlin , until being indefinitely postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . On September 4, 2021 at Blood, Sweat & Beers held at MTelus , generational phenom Zak Patterson made his IWS debut in an IWS Canadian Title Match, while Mike Bailey defeated Matt Angel in an IWS World Heavyweight Title Match winning his second IWS World Heavyweight Championship. On October 16 at Scarred 4 Life, Veda Scott defeated Addy Starr for
43263-460: Was set to undergo shoulder surgery. After a seven-month hiatus due to injury, Zayn returned on the December 23 episode of NXT (taped at the NXT TakeOver: London event on December 16) and defeated Tye Dillinger . On the March 16 episode of NXT , Zayn cut a promo talking about his future in NXT until William Regal came out and gave Zayn a match at NXT TakeOver: Dallas against new signee Shinsuke Nakamura on April 1, where he would be defeated in
43472-574: Was then involved in a brief feud with Mike Kanellis , whom he lost to in the latter's debut match on the July 18 episode of SmackDown . A rematch between the two was set for Battleground on July 23 which Zayn won. At Hell in a Cell on October 8, Zayn helped Kevin Owens defeat Shane McMahon in a Hell in a Cell match, turning heel for the first time in his career. On the October 10 episode of SmackDown Live , Zayn referred to Owens as his "brother" and explained that his actions were due to McMahon not giving Zayn opportunities despite SmackDown being dubbed
43681-404: Was won by Strong. On the January 31, 2020, episode of SmackDown , Nakamura lost the title to Braun Strowman, despite interferences from Zayn and Cesaro. At Elimination Chamber on March 8, Zayn, Nakamura, and Cesaro defeated Braun Strowman in a 3-on-1 handicap match to win the Intercontinental Championship; Zayn won the title by pinning Strowman. On the March 13 episode of SmackDown , Zayn began
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