Enzo Amore talks John Cena’s help in WWE career

I go to the ring that day, in NXT, to do a job, and a guy did me a favor in Triple H, brought me here and I think he was just doing a charity case. ‘Let’s just give this guy a f–king bar story so he can go back home and tell everybody he had a WWE match.’

I get to the ring, do the job, and when I get out of the ring Bill DeMott f**king motherf–kers me, buries me, and I’m like ‘ah s–t’, I got my head down walking out, and Rob Naylor goes ‘Enzo, John Cena wants to see you’. I run with him. I’m like running through the parking lot in NXT.

I get there, and all the boys are looking at me when I come in, and they all clap for me, I’m like ‘what the f–k is happening’. John Cena calls me over to him, and he goes ‘I’ve been here for three hours, and I want you to know you’re the only thing that caught my attention all day. 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. I went, ‘Can I come to the ring with that big guy right there, a seven-foot-tall guy, that’s my tag team partner, his name is Big Cass’, and John Cena goes, ‘Yeah tell him to come.’”

F–k no we weren’t a tag team (at that point). F–k no we weren’t a tag team, we were just homies, and he was teaching me everything about wrestling, kayfabe. He was teaching me the psychology of the words we were using back here, what a gimmick is, I didn’t understand. John Cena got me and Cass over, gave us the rub. Triple H gave me a squash match, don’t know if it was supposed to be a one-time thing and done, but I lingered there for seven long years, and I’m sure he couldn’t wait to get rid of me.