Enzo Amore recently spoke with FOX Sports to promote SummerSlam. You can check out the full interview here along with a with a few highlights below.
Making his main roster debut: You know, there was probably a ton of people there – including Vince McMahon – that would have never expected that kind of reaction. But going into it, you know, Triple H gave us the opportunity of a lifetime and I don’t think anybody ever realized that when the WWE Network came out and NXT was on the Network it became a brand. And it was the third brand of our company.
The opportunity we got there was to perform in front of crowds by the thousands in the U.K. [at NXT TakeOver: London], and the majority of the crowd that night after WrestleMania for Monday Night Raw in Dallas was a U.K. crowd, a crossover crowd. People who are enthusiasts of WWE and they knew what WWE NXT was.
I kinda looked at Hunter when my music hit from across Gorilla, I saw him right before I went out of the curtain … and it was organic, it was real. I could have never imagined that kind of reaction in a million years, but at the same time I had an inkling that ‘hey wait, these are the same fans that I just performed in front of in Europe three months ago.”
If He’s a Chris Jericho fan: You know it’s funny you should say that because you said they’re similar to me, but the one thing that me, Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens have in common, is that we have nothing in common. How you doin’?
Chris Jericho… I will give him one thing. As a kid growing up, I did idolize Chris Jericho at one point. But, the reason we get into this business is so that your idols become your rivals. Step into a ring with a guy like Kevin Owens, who’s traveled around the world and been in the ring for 15 years, and a guy like Chris Jericho, who has achieved pretty much everything there is to achieve in this business. They set the bar high, man, that’s what they did, but we didn’t come here to play limbo, we came here to jump hurdles. How you doin?
