5 Ups & 5 Downs From Big Cass' WWE Career
2. Friends In High Places
John Cena infamously put a bullet in Baron Corbin's main event aspirations in 2017, first flatly telling those backstage that the 'Lone Wolf' didn't have the intangible it-factor, before squashing him like a bug as punishment for the fact at SummerSlam.
By virtue of how brutal he was to somebody he felt not up for the fight, it's fair to assume he saw something pretty special in Enzo and Cass after agreeing to partner up with them for a lengthy and high profile rivalry with AJ Styles, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson.
The six-man tags were entrées for a delicious main course later to be dished up by 'The Champ' and 'The Phenomenal One', but the tandem were far more than just light bites in an otherwise meaty feud. Cena gamely put their comedy over, allowed himself to be cast as the geek of the three and even made repeated references to his position as an old man next to the two young studs and the (relatively) fresh stars across the ring.
Furthermore, Enzo and Cass emerged from the mettle-testing series as cooler babyfaces than they were before - a rarity for anybody feuding against or alongside Cena. They were clearly being groomed for bigger things, and in Cass' case, they very nearly came...