John Cena on his heel run: “Having The Rock and Travis Scott probably would have been great, who knows?”
While speaking at Fan Expo New Orleans, John Cena was asked if he could replace any match from his retirement tour with a dream match. Cena was then asked which opponent he would choose. Here was his response…
“We’re going to give Fan Expo some breaking-news content. You guys will be able to get the clickbait headlines with this. I appreciate it.
There’s a perspective out there that I dodge questions like that, so I want to lean into that, right? I want to lean into why I say what I say, which is that I just don’t think like that. Because if I were to say, ‘Oh man, I wish after I turned heel that The Rock and Travis Scott were on my team,’ that would be pretty cool, right?
Yeah. They’re crazy megastars, and having them would be pretty cool. But we didn’t—and that’s what happened.
But what did I get? I got to have a match with Randy Orton in his hometown. I got to get CM Punk to go to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I got to bet on somebody who I think has a bright future in this business in Logan Paul and try to get the best out of him overseas in Paris, and maybe grease the wheels to convince him to finally be a full-time WWE employee—which he currently is.
And I got magic with AJ Styles.
Okay, so yes—The Rock and Travis Scott probably would have been great. Who knows? It didn’t happen. But what I got in return, instead of wishing in some fantasy element that I can’t control, what I got in return was magic.
And I wouldn’t trade that for anything.”