Just as a concussed Zach Gowen tried to come to grips with reality, former WWE star Orlando Jordan walked into the room and started yelling at him for laying in his bed. 

Subsequently, Gowen was put on a plane and sent home. The next day, he received a call from John Laurinaitis. “He says, ‘Whenever you are cleared by the doctor, give me a call, and we’ll figure out where we’re going.’ He goes, ‘Right now, you got a lot of heat from a lot of people and I want to help you dissipate that.'” 

“I appreciated that,” Gowen said of Laurinaitis’ call, suggesting that he was glad to hear the former WWE Head of Talent Relations being honest with him about the WWE locker room’s feelings towards him.

As for the exact moment where “the wheels fell off” and fast-tracked his WWE exit, Gowen recounted another story that was a little personal in nature, but enough to annoy his bosses in Stamford. “During this time, I met a girl,” Gowen recalled. “I fall in love, man, like, just stupid head-over-heels in love, in Detroit. They [WWE] want me to move to Louisville, to go through the OVW system, and to pay my dues WWE style and gain the respect of the locker room.”