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AEW wrestler Joey Janela and former WWE wrestler Enzo Amore (real name Eric Arndt) got into a fight at a Blink 182 concert in New Jersey at the PNC Bank Arts Center Tuesday night. The war of the words started back in April when Janela tweeted at Enzo following his appearance in ROH during WrestleMania Weekend at G1 Supercard:
Just saying this, straight up if @real1 wants some buzz, he can come shoot with me next year at @GCWrestling_ Bloodsport I’ll do 4-6 months of whatever MMA Training Barnett Recommends so I don’t make a fool out of his art, the way NZO makes a joke out of the wrestling business…
— Bad Boy Joey Janela (@JANELABABY) April 12, 2019
I wouldn’t want you to blow the last of your money…
— Bad Boy Joey Janela (@JANELABABY) April 13, 2019
PWTorch sources indicate the incident began when Janela went up to Amore and introduced himself before flipping him off. After the incident took place, the two continued to exchange words on Twitter and more details of the altercation came out from Janela.
Amore was the first to tweet about the incident writing:
I’m glad you introduced yourself cause I couldn’t pick you out of a line up. You don’t want no smoke.
Where was that energy at? We aint friends [Joey Janela]. Dont introduce urself to me f*ckboy I thought u were a fan hahaha the second I realized it was u I slapped ya bitchass hands down & walked @ u w/ MY HANDS UP YA F*CKIN RAN BACKWARDS & told my homey to film it.
He later added several follow up Tweets directed at Janela:
I’m glad you introduced yourself cause I couldn’t pick you out of a line up. You don’t want no smoke. And now I know it, there’s only two things that smell like fish. Ones fish. @JANELABABY straight pussy.
— #nZo (FKA Enzo Amore) (@real1) July 10, 2019
Don’t try & play that wrestling shit with me. You’ll end up on fucking world star.
— #nZo (FKA Enzo Amore) (@real1) July 10, 2019
https://twitter.com/real1/status/1148798149747781634
Clout chasing in public to ultimately look like a pussy, must feel terrible. Ya not a good human, people are out to enjoy there night and you cause a scene and run while I’m engaging with friends & fans, ya mother should be proud.
— #nZo (FKA Enzo Amore) (@real1) July 10, 2019
Kid, u know wrestling is fake right? All them wars did punk wonders when he stepped into the octagon with my training partner Mickey Gall…. people who will do anything for attention will step on thumbtacks to get a reaction, all I gotta do is show up. https://t.co/8JMfCy4FTs
— #nZo (FKA Enzo Amore) (@real1) July 10, 2019
Janela responded to Amore’s tweets and added some context to what triggered their altercation at the concert, which can be seen in Janela’s tweets below:
At least I said hello…. https://t.co/HDOHIFng5W
— Bad Boy Joey Janela (@JANELABABY) July 10, 2019
Not a work, So i saw the dude and walked up and said “Hi I’m Joey Janela” at the blink 182 show and we proceeded to have (I’m not lennox lewis) to have the shittiest fist fight of the year, I’m not a pussy but we had fun!
— Bad Boy Joey Janela (@JANELABABY) July 10, 2019
I will have no chance to wrestle or “fight” Enzo With my exclusivity starting in October but I saw it to introduce myself! That’s all!
— Bad Boy Joey Janela (@JANELABABY) July 10, 2019
Janela also challenged Amore to come fight him again later last night:
I’m in belmar right now, let’s go bud!
— Bad Boy Joey Janela (@JANELABABY) July 10, 2019
On Twitter last night, Janela indicated one of Enzo’s friends had filmed the incident and this morning, Amore tweeted out a video of the incident. PWTorch has learned from sources that the portion of the video that Amore showed does not show the entire incident and no punches are thrown during the video.
You can see the video of that incident below:
Not a safe environment for a fight, needless to say, I didn’t start the fight & I was smart enough not to have one with a drunk’n fool/vagina (s/o Angela my homegirl, screaming like a voice of reason to a very reasonable man.) @JANELABABY dick riding aint a form of transportation pic.twitter.com/l3jyJVVm3S
— #nZo (FKA Enzo Amore) (@real1) July 10, 2019
Janela also posted a tweet on Twitter saying that the entire incident wasn’t shown by Amore:
He didn’t even post the whole video Lmfaooooo
— Bad Boy Joey Janela (@JANELABABY) July 10, 2019
Janela also said this wasn’t a work and he wasn’t setting up an angle with Amore in response to a question on Twitter:
Believe me dude I’m not gonna waste my match at Spring Break on that dude
— Bad Boy Joey Janela (@JANELABABY) July 10, 2019
Radican’s Analysis: Janela needs to drop this feud he has with Enzo Amore and move on to focusing on AEW. Amore’s wrestling career is likely finished in the mainstream and he was a toxic figure behind the scenes when he wrestled in WWE according to multiple sources.
Janela has a lot of buzz going for him right now and engaging with Amore will get him a lot of attention, but ultimately he has a lot more going for him in wrestling than Amore does coming off his main event match against Jon Moxley at Fyter Fest last month. There’s no reason for Janela to bring Amore the attention he craves. Amore looked foolish tweeting that Janela ran away only to post a video showing that Janela did not in fact run away.
Janela’s tweets seemed to indicate he’s ready to move on from the incident and not turn it into a wrestling match, which is a good decision.
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