More footage from Enzo Amore‘s shoot interview with Title Match Wrestling has been released, with the former WWE Cruiserweight Champion getting into how he handled Big Cass’ unfortunate injury during their blowoff match on RAW.
Enzo says he ripped on Cass publicly and personally, with his mindset being that they should have finished the match no matter what happened. Enzo says he knew he’d be heading to 205 Live and thought it made sense to finish the match, bringing up the ‘masculine-driven business’ mentality of finishing a match no matter what.
“I saw an opportunity to finish a match—this is how fucked up pro wrestling is, this is how fucked up it is—it is a masculine-driven business, where Vince McMahon will never ask you to do something that he wouldn’t do. The thing is, he’d pretty much do anything. Triple H is in a Sharpshooter with a torn quad, right? Stone Cold gets paralyzed and rolls up in the ugliest school boy in the history of the business with Owen Hart, right? You finish the match, that’s what we were always taught.
Go to a boxing fight. The boxing fights end with guys getting knocked out on their feet. They stop them early. Sports and mindset ain’t the same anymore. They want to protect you and your head, CTE—at least they tell you they do in sports, football, basketball, baseball—wrestling’s no different. In my mind, in my wherewithal badassery of the alpha male locker room, I say I’m going to go finish a match unless you drag me out of the ring or it’s on fire, but you’re still going to have to pull me out. The concussion, they stopped the match for me. Then you go down to this day and age, bro, you tear an ACL and you’re Cass, the referee wanted him to stop. The referee got the relay from the guys inside [the production truck] to stop the match. Cass rolled out of the ring, he tore his ACL and he was extremely upset about it. I, in my mind, said ‘Cass, fuck the ref, let’s finish, we’re on live TV.’
We didn’t finish, and we had a difference of opinion, but Cass tried to finish the match with his torn ACL. He tried, and then when it went again on him, he rolled out and they told him to stop it. In my mind—adrenaline’s rushing in the ring—the finish to the match, I’m jumping off the top rope eating a boot onto a steel chair out of the air. If you’ve ever seen a guy get booted out of the air, you know how terrible that looks, I’m willing to take that onto the chair. I’m willing to have Big Cass throw me down the ramp, and if you remember, he did that—I had him Gorilla press me down the ramp and nobody’s ever done that, when I suggested it, Vince is like ‘are you sure you want to do this?’—in my mind, in that moment, I’m like ‘I don’t care if I have a torn ACL, I’m finishing the fuckin’ match. It’s the biggest blow-off in the year, literally. In 2017, the biggest RAW ratings draw was me and Cass breaking up. Now we fast forward to Summerslam, and I’m going to 205 Live the next night, he’s going his way. I thought to myself, ‘dude, you could have walked out of this arena a monster, and you would have came back in nine months and made yourself, and they never would have been scared to invest money in you.
But then, you’ve got to think about it from his perspective. A torn ACL, just rolled out of this thing, I don’t know what’s going on in his mind at that time because I’m not him. I look at it in retrospect and it was probably the most masculine-driven thing that I did in all of my years and time in WWE where I didn’t take into account other people’s feelings.”
Enzo went on to say that the most important thing to take out of this situation is that in life you just never know what somebody else is going through.
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