Former WWE star Enzo Amore (who now goes under the name Real1) was never “S-A-W-F-T” on the microphone, nor when climbing the ranks from a developmental wrestler in “WWE NXT,” to a weekly draw on the important roster. Nonetheless, at one point during his meteoric rise, there was a hiccup. A large one, at that. When faced with an on the fly challenge that either granted him one other day on the payroll or a let go for good, the present 4th Rope Flyweight Champion credits this current AEW champion for helping him keep his job back then.
“There was a time where Scott Dawson, from FTR, top-of-the-line employees on the market…saved my job and his job at the identical rattling time,” the previous two-time WWE Cruiserweight Champion said in his interview on “No-Contest Wrestling” “He was a vet. I used to be greener than goose s**t, and we were each on the sting of getting fired. And so they called us each within the ring. Scott locked up with me and said, ‘Shut the f**k up and just listen.’ I went, ‘All right, no problem. I’ll try this.’ So, I just listened to Scott… I’ve only been wrestling for, like, three weeks… I knew from watching it my whole life…that selling is where the cash’s at…So, I just sold across the ring, and we went backwards and forwards at things. But that match, we each ended up bleeding within the face, and so they needed to call it. So, there was no finish…I owed Dax Harwood, because he was the primary one to avoid wasting my job the primary time.”
Whether working alongside Big Cass (known now in AEW as Big Bill) or solo, Amore continued perfecting the art of selling, even at one point becoming the head face of the cruiserweight division. Unfortunately, Amore’s rise snowballed into a serious demise soon after, when allegations of sexual assault were delivered to the corporate’s attention, ending his six-year tenure in 2018. He went on to briefly appear for NJPW, then MLW from 2021 to 2023, but left after the corporate and he couldn’t see eye-to-eye on scheduled appearances and opponents. The present star now works for 4th Rope Wrestling.
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