The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling recently interviewed former WWE Performance Center coach: Matt Wichlinski. Matt used to work for WWE as the head strength & conditioning coach at the Performance Center in Orlando.
During the interview, he spoke about some WWE stars being opposed to his coaching. This includes the always outspoken: Enzo Amore.
Here is what he had to say:
“An obvious one would be Enzo Amore. He trained with Joe DeFranco for several years before he came into the “PC”. Joe DeFranco is Triple H’s personal trainer. Joe is an amazing guy and a brilliant strength coach and Enzo trained with him for a couple of years but he is a guy that just doesn’t listen very well. He has some decent athletic ability (he played college football) but he is very hard to coach. Not just in the gym but in the ring as well. In talking with his other coaches and he worked with all of the coaches (since he was there) for three or four years and Norman Smiley, Bill Demott and all of them thought he could be a real pain in the ass”
He continued:
“Sometimes he can be awesome and other times he could be a pain in the ass. He’s one of those guys that thought he trained at DeFranco’s so he knows everything. I do a lot of things very similar and somewhat the same as what DeFranco does but certain things may be different and just because you did it one way, I’m asking you to do it different right now and if am asking you for a certain reason it’s because I want to see you do it this way because I am building to something else. Everyone that knows Enzo knows he is a hell of a character and a good guy but he can be a pain in the ass to work with sometimes, not all the time.”
On what he thought when Enzo was called up to the WWE main roster:
“I started calling him Sinatra towards the end and once he went up, I was just calling him Sinatra because he did it his way. A lot of sh*t he did was f*cking wrong. Blatantly wrong. Whether it was his selling or this or that but look at him now. He did it his way and he’s up there and making his money and he has got a hell of a life. He’s just laughing it up and having a great time so kudos to him. He was one of these guys that would kind of get away with doing things his way and it paid off for him. Somebody else may have gotten fired, who knows and I’m not trying to pick on him”
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You can check out the full interview here.
Hi, the link of the interview is wrong, is another video.
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Enzo is simply awful. Can’t wait to see him being fired in a couple of years.