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Triple H addresses the creative decision to have John Cena turn heel at WWE Elimination Chamber 2025

Aaron Rift

As seen during the 2025 WWE Elimination Chamber PLE, John Cena officially turned heel against Cody Rhodes and “sold his soul” to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. While speaking at the post-show press conference, Paul “Triple H” Levesque commented on the creative decision for Cena to turn…

“I’m a really big proponent of collaboration. I want all the ideas, I want us to look at all of them and have conversations around what is the best thing, and out of those things, how can we tear those up and go in a completely different direction. At some point in time, little germs of ideas come in like ‘what if’, and it just grows. I’m fortunate to have some of the best minds to work with. Dwayne has always been an epic storyteller and do something different, and how can we make this something no-one has ever seen before. It’s really easy to go ‘lets do this angle I saw once’.

To do something that nobody will see coming, that’s hard, and it starts with a bunch of people coming up with great ideas, and lead people in one direction and pull people in another direction. People are pretty savvy, so their tuned in and sense things coming. It’s why we get so upset when we see spoilers and things leak, when you do get the right ones that are out there, it drives you nuts. The one thing I loved about tonight is that it was nowhere, because nobody knew. When I say nobody knew, nobody. Right before the finish of the Chamber I said to the truck ‘everybody lay out, I have all traffic on what’s next’. It was a very tight circle of people.” (quote courtesy of WrestleTalk.com)