Simon Grimm, or better known by his WWE alias as Simon Gotch recently sat down with RF Video for a shoot interview. Grimm spoke on a number of topics including WWE superstar Enzo Amore being a detriment to himself, gives his take on why he and Aiden English did not succeed on the main roster & more.
Here are the highlights: (transcripts by WrestlingINC)
Why Did The Vaudevillians Failed On The Main Roster:
“I’m like, ‘well, they wanted us to be heels and we weren’t getting enough heat. We’re going to get heat for this’ and the immediate thing we do, the next night, we job out to Big Cass on RAW. I think we did it three times in a row. We did like RAW, Main Event and SmackDown. I may be mistaken, but it was three times within a couple of weeks.”
Enzo Breaking His Leg:
“He broke his own leg trying to counter a wrist-lock. Yeah, when he was in the wheelchair on NXT TV, that’s how it happened. He broke his own leg trying to counter a wrist-lock, he blamed it on the canvas being loose.”
Grimm On Enzo’s Confidence:
“I will say, to his credit, he believes his own bulls**t. He is 100% confident in himself to his detriment and the detriment of others around him. He’s an example of someone who has no excuse to not know wrestling, but he doesn’t know wrestling.”
Enzo Suffering A Concussion During Him & Big Cass’s Match vs. The Vaudevillians: (only video I could find with the actual footage)
https://youtu.be/z0oXiZok0Yg
“He’s almost touching the ropes, maybe a quarter of the way off because obviously, I don’t want him to be too close or Cass will tag him. I go, I start running with him, I’m ghosting him the whole way, my hands are here and here, just holding him. He’s running, running, running, he hits the slide, boom, hits, I follow through [and taunt] ‘yeah, motherf****r, yeah.’ I go out of the ring, I look at him; I’m like, ‘man, he’s selling the s**t out of this, cool.’ I go to grab him. I’m a light touch with stuff like grabbing because I know how bad that sucks when someone just grabs you and just f*****g… so literally, fingers on temples, side of the head. He comes with me. I’m like, ‘okay, he’s good.’ Charles [Robinson], the referee, says we’re in replays, so I let go of [Enzo], turn around, start jaw-jacking with the crowd, I turn back around I see this, I see the ‘X’. I go, ‘oh f**k, he’s out.’ I never knew if there was any [heat], I think most people know that Enzo was kind of a clod in the ring.”
