Enzo Amore was fired by WWE after allegations of sexual assault became known to the company. While the former Cruiserweight Champion was ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing, it appears as if Vince McMahon and company have no desire to bring him back into the fold, especially as it's been widely reported that he was difficult to work with and upset pretty much everyone backstage.
Now, Amore has spoken out about that and started off by making it clear he wasn't actually that difficult to work with...he just wanted to have more control over what he was saying on the mic!
"As a writer, you gotta understand why people were maybe were mad to work with me or say I was difficult to work with. If a writer has a job to work with you and you get to work on Monday I re-write the whole f*cking promo. So they would give me my bullet points and I would rewrite my whole promos you know what I’m saying, and sometimes I could and could not, for instance ‘zero dimes’ you remember that thing? Like, Vince didn’t get it. So I used in NXT a bunch when I got to the main roster, Vince was like ‘…what’s that mean?’ So he doesn’t get but we’re making money off merchandise with it."
Going against the script is never a good idea in WWE and so it's no wonder he generated a lot of heat. That's evident from the fact he was almost fired at one point for refusing to do what he was told and even though Triple H mentored him throughout his NXT run, even he seemingly got sick of Amore!
"If you guys ever saw a segment with a Miz…I found out that day that I was pretty much turning heel…so I had to stick to the script. And he aired out all my dirty backstage laundry and I had to sit there and take it on the chin and I couldn’t say or rebuttal at all. I was backstage, I wrote the most tremendous promo of my life, which would have saved me as a babyface if I would have gotten the microphone. So I was in the midst of turning heel but they didn’t want to tell me that, per say, per say. For the first time they come to me and say ‘no, you can’t say anything. You have to read this verbatim.’ And I’m backstage losing my sh*t, and Hunter comes up to me and was like ‘you say what’s on that script if you wanna keep your job.’ And they didn’t tell me I was turning heel so I get it, but at the time and in the moment, I was like f*ck this man I’m quitting."
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