A former WWE superstar who gatecrashed Survivor Series after being fired by the company has previously explained why he decided to "invade" the event.
Enzo Amore, real name Eric Andt, was fired by the WWE in January 2018 after a series of sexual assault allegations were made against him.
An investigation into the allegations against Andt was later closed without any charges being brought. The case was dropped by police because of insufficient evidence.
Later on in the year, at a pay-per-view event at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, the former WWE tag team and cruiserweight champion made an unexpected appearance in the crowd.
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In fact, Amore made an attempt to hijack a match between the Authors of Pain and Sheamus and Cesaro as he tried to hype up the crowd with a rendition of his How You Doin' chant.
But the New Jersey-born wrestler was soon removed from the venue, with footage emerging of his antics.
Enzo Amore explains why he "invaded" Survivor Series event
Speaking on Title Match Wrestling, as per WrestleTalk, Amore gave a detailed insight into why he gatecrashed the event.
“I’ve been planning that, bro, I’ve been planning that. It was—they called me by the way. Before [the event]. They called me before I invaded Survivor Series. A 203 [area code] number called me a few times, my voicemail is full, thank you very much, and I have no idea what they wanted. I knew what I was going to do, so I wasn’t going to answer the phone.
“It’s simple—I’ve sat here and explained so much to you about marketing, and the character of Enzo and how I marketed him—do you people have any idea how much money it costs if you’re a business on a marketing advertising level, trying to trend in the top 5 worldwide? And how much more powerful that is than cable numbers on commercials? So why not do it?
"I beat Survivor Series on many things in many facets in trends. I trended #1 worldwide and had things going on and said about me in articles, understand if you typed it or read it, I probably manifest it.
“Anything you say about me good, bad or indifferent, I already know is going to happen. If I show up to Survivor Series, I understand the backlash and the repercussions of my actions on a media front, on a locker room front, in the world of wrestling and what ‘smart marks’ and people that have negative things to say about me, people that already have their opinions about me, what they’re going to say.
"There’s nothing that I can’t conquer. There’s nothing that I can’t conquer. That was pro wrestling, that’s what that is.
“First of all, there was never a case, the police never called me, ever. For instances pertaining to my life since signing with WWE, I’ve never been contacted by them once. All I did was show up to work every day and do my job to the best of my ability with that f****’ microphone, and that just happened to be the best in the world at a certain point in time.
"You can hate on me for that, go ahead, but it was a job, and this is no different. I’m my own boss now. B.Y.O.B., motherfucker. ‘Be Your Own Boss’, not ‘bring your own beer.’"
Amore added: “I did it for very, very few reasons. The next day they’re going to sit in on a meeting at Monday Night RAW, and they are going to go over all of their trends and topics, and I’m going to pop up on there. They don’t have a choice, and they are going to see that I did better numbers, as far as statistically speaking, than any other wrestler on that was on that pay-per-view.
“Now look at Paul Heyman, look at ECW. Now take this back to the 1990s, WCW, Dusty Rhodes, take this back. I’m one fuckin’ man. One man purchased a—purchased!—a $2500 ticket, showed up in a wig, and stood up on a chair and got thrown out for that.
"I broke no laws. So if you tell me, if you’re into marketing, you tell me break no laws, have no repercussions for your actions for $2500, you’re going to trend worldwide [that you wouldn’t do it]? Kiss my ass everybody.
"Y’all can talk your shit. Guys that were in the ring, no disrespect. There’s a reason why I did it before the bell rang.”
Amore recalls being fired by the WWE for breaking wind
Amore has previously opened up on an incident from a Dusty Rhodes promo class where he let out a loud fart, which subsequently got him fired from the company.
“I farted in a Dusty Rhodes promo class, and Dusty Rhodes kicked me out of it. He got me fired that night," he said in an interview with Wrestling Shoot Interviews.
"I called Triple H in the morning, and he got me rehired. Then I got fined for farting, taken off shows, and me and Big Cass went on a losing streak for a while in NXT. How bad was the fart? It was the loudest fart I’ve ever ripped in my entire life.
"That’s because I thought it was going to be my promo. I just, like, ricocheted it off the metal chair I was sitting in, and it just blasted off of it. It came out like a duck quack.
"Man, I thought Dusty would think it was funny because Baron Corbin was up there cutting a terrible promo, so I just raised my hand and farted. I thought it would be my promo, like I wouldn’t need to cut one, but yeah, there was that.”
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