5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (April 27)
3. Hanging Brain
His name was Enzo Amore. He was a certified G and a bonafide stud. As it turned out, 'G' stood for gimmick and Amore may or may not have been a little too bonafide living it out of hours.
That's for legal eagles to circle around, of course. In the world of pro wrestling, he's currently just a nonentity. Given the hoof by WWE amidst the ugly accusations, Enzo went uncharacteristically quiet save for a statement from his solicitors atop his Twitter page. His silence (of sorts) was broken this week - he took to his empty Instagram page to post an image of his Air Jordans hanging over telephone wires. 'I T ' S B E E N R E A L' captioned the atypically restrained photo.
Logic dictated this was his way of announcing his retirement. Wrestlers - beloved, great wrestlers - leave their boots in the ring. It be somewhat fitting for a sports entertainment success story like Enzo to 'blue sky' it a bit. That said, for somebody quite attuned to...whatever the f*ck culture his persona represented, he perhaps might have been wiser to keep his finger on society's reflection of this sort of thing too.
Films and TV shows have often used the imagery to denote the location of a crime scene, or highlight the plight of a trainer-less bullying victim. Does the former 'Smacktalker Skywalker' really want to be drawing those comparisons just now?
Not that it would have been his style at all, but in the circumstances Enzo might have been best served to bow out quietly, rather than with such a symbolic gesture. There's only one word to describe what he's lacking, and we'll spell it out for him - T-A-C-T, taaaaaact. And no, sadly you can't teach that.