On Monday, Crowe had just finished training at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, FL when he stopped at a nearby store and heard a crash. He immediately ran outside where a woman had flipped her SUV and he, along with another onlooker, helped the driver from the vehicle.
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“I didn’t even think,” said Crowe in talking to WWE.com. “When I saw it, I was wearing sandals, and I just took off in a full sprint toward the car. I knew especially if a car’s upside down like that, it can catch fire very easily, and whoever was in it, we wanted to get them out."
Crowe, who already had first aid training then waiting with the woman until the paramedics arrived on the scene. It was quite a wild scene but he was level-headed about it and did what he could to help. That is apparently much different that the character we saw during his NXT debut.
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