Former WWE Superstar Simon Gotch (who now goes by Simon Grimm on the independent scene) recently did a shoot interview with RF Video to talk about his time in the WWE. Among other things, Gotch talked in depth about Enzo Amore and the reported heat he has backstage within the WWE locker room. You can check out the highlights from Gotch’s shoot interview below:
Amore being a detriment to himself and those around him:
“I will say, to his credit, he believes his own bulls–t. He is 100% confident in himself to his detriment and the detriment of others around him. He’s an example of someone who has no excuse to not know wrestling, but he doesn’t know wrestling.”
“The Realest Guy In The Room’s” lackluster in-ring skills that caused him to break his own leg:
“He broke his own leg trying to counter a wristlock. Yeah, when he was in the wheelchair on NXT TV, that’s how it happened. He broke his own leg trying to counter a wristlock. He blamed it on the canvas being loose.”
Amore suffering a shoot concussion at Payback and Gotch never receiving any heat for it backstage:
“He’s almost touching the ropes, maybe a quarter of the way off because, obviously, I don’t want him to be too close or Cass will tag him. I go, I start running with him, I’m ghosting him the whole way, my hands are here and here, just holding him. He’s running, running, running, he hits the slide, boom, hits. I follow through, [and taunt] ‘yeah, motherf–ker! Yeah.’ I go out of the ring. I look at him. I’m like, ‘man, he’s selling the s–t out of this, cool.’ I go to grab him.
“I’m a light touch with stuff like grabbing because I know how bad that sucks when someone just grabs you and just f–king… so literally, fingers on temples, side of the head. He comes with me. I’m like, ‘okay, he’s good.’ Charles [Robinson], the referee, says we’re in replays, so I let go of [Enzo], turn around, start jaw-jacking with the crowd, I turn back around I see this, I see the ‘X’. I go, ‘oh f–k. He’s out.'” Gotch added, “I never knew if there was any [heat]. I think most people know that Enzo was kind of a clod in the ring.”
WWE failing to capitalize on Amore’s concussion:
“I’m like, ‘well, they wanted us to be heels and we weren’t getting enough heat. We’re going to get heat for this.’ And the immediate thing we do, the next night, we job out to Big Cass on RAW. I think we did it three times in a row. We did like RAW, Main Event, and SmackDown. I may be mistaken, but it was three times within a couple of weeks.”
H/T Wrestling Inc. for the transcribed quotes
