Enzo Amore opens up about being fired from WWE in 2018 after being accused of sexual assault
Enzo Amore was released from WWE in January 2018 after being accused of sexual assault by a woman in Phoenix, Arizona. WWE fired him due to its zero-tolerance policy, noting that he hadn’t informed the company of the ongoing investigation. The Phoenix Police Department later closed the case due to insufficient evidence.
While appearing on The John Rondi Show, Enzo aka Real1 discussed the situation…
“They had to rewrite the entire show at 4:00 PM because a f*cking tweet went viral of a girl accusing me of sexual assault. And I didn’t even know, you know, that this was happening. This was going viral. And I’m going through rehearsals, and people start looking at me like, ‘You all right, bro?’ I’m like, ‘What? What’s up?’
Next thing I know, I’m in Vince McMahon’s office. He tells me, you know, ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’ I’m like, ‘Brother, like, I didn’t f*cking know this sh*t was going crazy right now. Like, what?’
So he tells me, ‘You got to go home.’ And I took the Cruiserweight Title with me in a Gucci bag, and I turned the phone around. I filmed myself the whole f*cking way home. I was so angry. One day maybe that video footage will come out in some documentary.
But ultimately, it led to the next day getting a phone call from, at the time, Mark Carrano, who was the head of HR or whatever, and he told me that, ‘Some cooler heads did not prevail’ — meaning Vince McMahon. From my understanding, it wasn’t Vince that wanted me gone at that moment, I was. I was ixnayed, and I can’t even tell you the relief, man. You would think I would be f*cked up in the head at that moment. Yeah. My life just fell apart, brother. I had a WWE Title in my bag. I just got fired from a dream job, though, that I never thought was going to be a reality. And I just got fired, and I left on top almost like on my own. You never leave with the title.”