John Cena spoke with The New York Times to promote WrestleMania 41 and his relationship with former WWE CEO Vince McMahon was brought up.
Here’s what the 16-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion said:
“I don’t care who hears it, I love Vince. I’m not downplaying anything that needs to be decided or allegations of any kind, but when I love somebody, I love them wholeheartedly.
I know people are going to be angry about that, but they can’t put their value on my relationship with somebody I love.”
John Cena will have his final WrestleMania match this Sunday night, when he faces Cody Rhodes for the Undisputed WWE Championship in the main event of Night 2. Cena is looking to break Ric Flair’s record and become a 17-time World Champion.
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“John Cena didn’t know about that part” – Triple H On Elimination Chamber 2025 Finish
During an interview with Peter Rosenberg, WWE’s Chief Content Officer Triple H recalled the finish of Elimination Chamber 2025, which featured the shocking heel turn of John Cena.
HHH revealed that only two other people on the executive team knew about Cena’s heel turn:
“We kept that so quiet that on our side, three people on the exec team knew. That’s it. Me and two others. Nobody else knew. Cena knew. Cena didn’t even tell his wife. Cena didn’t even tell his manager. Cody knew, Cody told no one, right? Obviously Rock knew.
Travis sort of knew but he was just f**king going along, just being along for the ride. Doing exactly what they told him to do which is at some point slap Cody and he was slapping him whether Cena wanted it or not, because Cena didn’t know about that part.
When we get to the end of the show, I have to tell everyone as we’re coming in to that last minute of Elimination Chamber, ‘Okay, there’s aftermath on this show. Everybody lay out, I’m directing traffic, I will call all of this. Marty, here’s how all of this is going to go.’
I rattle off all this sh*t to Marty, like shot for shot. It’s fast because we’re getting to the end of this match. Marty is like, ‘Holy sh*t.’ I’m like, ‘I will walk you through it’ because I’m still not saying on headset, and then John is going to turn on Cody. I’m leaving out details.
So when we get there, I’m trying to be a fan and feel it and as it comes in, then technically put it out to the truck of where we need to go and hopefully be just ahead of it to where we can get it down.”
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