7 days ago

John Cena Explains How Audience Reactions Rewrote His Babyface Timeline

WWE once planned for Cody Rhodes to flip John Cena at SummerSlam, but crowd reactions accelerated the turn. Cena said fans cheered him against Randy Orton and even backed a “pipe bomb” exchange with CM Punk. “The crowd turned me before that,” he said. By the New Jersey show, Cena felt the “real John Cena” returned weeks earlier than planned.