Recap by: Christopher Jay, rajah.com
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CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BIG GUY 04/9/20: nZo (Enzo Amore)
nZo on his lifestyle when he started to get pushed: "When it was happening, I was living the life. I was partying like every night, getting laid, having a blast, living crazy and wrestling every night."
nZo on putting together matches: "I never even chimed in. I'm not even there. I'm off memorizing a promo and when they go ding ding ding, guess what, I'm the only guy on this roster who doesn't have to remember a thing, my tag team partner is my best friend and he's going to protect me, and when I'm in the ring, all I have to do is sell. That's it. Punch me, I go down, that was the easiest story ever told. I'm not in a title match like A.J. That's not my job. My job is to get these people up with this microphone and get punched in the face and then tell the story where I can't get Cass and then I get him, and he kills everybody. Everybody is happy for 10 minutes. That was our role."
nZo on his release from WWE: "It's crazy. Nothing can prepare you for it. The crazy thing about it for me is people forget because of the perception of me on the way out. I was in the main event and I was on a 3 hour thread on the 25th anniversary of Monday Night Raw that had to get rewritten at 4 pm when I got sent home. I had a title around my waist, and I was maintaing my job at the highest level in the world, coming out of the main event of matches. Somehow, through getting falsely accused, getting my livelihood getting ripped out of my hands, people think that I'm a bad guy because I'm playing one on TV. I was doing my job, playing a heel, to say who I am, I just did a Make a Wish with a kid by the name of Enzo and they never aired it because I got fired. You don't see that side of me, you just hear these stories."
