10 Moments That Caused Huge Rifts Between Wrestlers

2. Enzo Amore Verbally Incinerates Simon Gotch In Promo Class

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Enzo Amore excelled so profoundly in the vaunted NXT promo class that it catapulted him to main roster stardom when he didn't know his as*hole from his elbow drop.

He was a danger to himself in the ring with a complete inability to do anything beyond follow the script. Like Ron Burgundy and the teleprompter, he would do anything the agent laid out for him, even, in one farcical moment, hop out over the top rope with zero force applied by an appalled Cesaro. But holy hell could he cut a damn promo.

It's almost the cruellest of ironies: Enzo Amore was put on this planet to sell the wrestling match he was incapable of having.

Simon Gotch was the corpse he climbed over to get there: "Simon Gotch has a pair of t*tties like a 65 year-old woman. How ya doin'?" Enzo claims to have said, revealing the source of the contempt Gotch held for him in that shoot video YouTube's algorithm demanded you watched.

Live wrestling is a distant memory and an elusive future away, but if this goes away before WrestleMania Weekend 2020 - and Josh Barnett has even something resembling a sense of humour - this sh*t needs to go down at Bloodsport.

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