Around lunchtime in the Cageside offices* today (May 21) I said**, to no one in particular, “you know, the reports of WWE rebuilding it’s tag division, Enzo Amore at the WWE Performance Center, and Big Bill’s contract about to expire could all be related”.
Surely I’m not the only one to wonder about the timing of those three rumors, and WrestleVotes says there are people in WWE interested in reunited the tag team formerly known as Enzo and Big Cass.
According to Votes latest podcast for Fightful Select,
the duo have stayed in touch with producers at WWE over the years, going back to their early days in NXT. With Bill/Cass’ AEW contract said to be up at the end of this month, those producers putting in a positive word for Zo and Cass — just as WWE’s decided they’d rather rebuild a tag division around Kit Wilson and The Miz*** instead of the Motor City Machine Guns and The New Day — could be enough to get the motor-mouth and his seven-foot-tall friend a second chance.
Bill/Cass did some damage to his reputation at the end of his WWE run in 2018, and over the next year or so on the independent scene. But after getting sober, getting on Diamond Dallas Page’s program and working with DDP (which led to his marriage to DDP’s step-daughter, Lexi Nair), and having a drama-free AEW/ROH run, it’s not hard to see the seven-footer being welcomed back to the company that released him in 2018.
Amore’s had a relatively quiet few years himself, but his first WWE run wrapped up in much more bridge-burning fashion. Months before Cass’ release, Enzo was suspended and then fired for the way he handled sexual assault allegations made against him which were ultimately not pursued by authorities. That followed a year of backstage heat talk following him. To make it worse, he snuck into and got thrown out of that year’s Survivor Series. Then he wasn’t part of the wrestling conversation for a few years — as anything other than a punchline, that is.
But they were a very popular act in NXT and early in their main roster run, before rumors about their behind-the-scenes behavior and WWE’s decision to split them led fans to sour on their schtick.
Do you want to see the Realest Guys in The Room make a return to WWE at 39-years-old?
* Slack
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*** No offense to two talented performers who have great chemistry, but I doubt they’ll be tagging together in six months,
