Enzo Amore Recalls John Cena Pulling Him Aside After NXT Debut, Inviting Him To Feature In Dark Segment With Him

Enzo Amore recalls how John Cena pulled him aside after his NXT debut and brought him out with him for a dark segment.

In May of 2013, Enzo would make his WWE debut, featuring on an edition of NXT where he would be squashed by Mason Ryan, later featuring in a dark segment with John Cena that same night.

While speaking to Emilio Sparks in a new interview, Enzo Amore recalled John Cena putting him over following hist first match on the brand.

“I go to the ring that day in NXT to do a job, and a guy did me a favor, and Triple H brought me here, and I think he was just doing a charity case. I think it was like, ‘okay, let me give this guy his fucking bar story, so that he can go back home and tell everybody about how he had a WWE match,’ you know? Like, fuck, like made a dream come true, right? I get to the ring, I do the job when I get out to the ring and he buries me, and I’m like, oh shit, I got my head down, I’m walking out and rob Naylor goes, ‘heads up John Cena wants to see you.’ I’m like, what? can he- I run with him. I’m like, running through the parking lot of NXT. I get there and all the boys are kind of looking at me when I come in and they all clap for me, and I’m like, ‘what the fuck is happening?’ All of a sudden John Cena calls me over to him like this, he goes, ‘I’ve been here for three hours and I want you to know you’re the only thing that’s caught my attention all day.’ So would you like to come to the ring with me in the dark segment?’ I immediately in that moment did something. I don’t know what God took over, and I went, ‘can I come to the ring with that big guy right there? The seven foot tall guy? That’s my tag team partner. His name is Big Cass.’ John Cena was like, yeah.”

Enzo noted that he and Cass were not tag team partners at the time, but wanted to help out Big Cass to repay him for helping him get used to the wrestling business.

Elsewhere in the same interview, Enzo spoke about submitting names to use in WWE. You can read more about that here.

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