Professional wrestling legend and future WWE Hall of Fame Jim Cornette who is considered as one of the greatest wrestling managers in the wrestling recently talked about the recent return of John Cena to Friday Night SmackDown. He also said that he wished WWE had more stars on their shows.
Since his main roster debut in 2002, John Cena did not miss a single year in WWE. He competed in each and every year. But in 2022 was a difficulty here and he was failing to give dates to WWE because of schedule in Hollywood. Fans were quite disappointed that he might not be able to give dates in 2022 and he would miss a year finally in WWE after 20 long years.
Jim Cornette Discusses The Recent Smackdown Return Of John Cena
But fortunately that did not happen as he around that he would be teaming up with Kevin Owens to take on the Bloodline. To clarify his opponent team more it was the team of Roman Reigns and Sami Zayn. The match took place on the final episode of Friday Night Smackdown from 2022.
As a result, WWE SmackDown earned the best viewership in two years. Kevin Owens and John Cena defeated the team of Roman Reigns and Sami Zayn in this match. And this is for the first time in over 2 years that Roman Reigns was involved in a losing effort. Cena is also rumour to compete at WrestleMania 39 and a number of names have already been rumoured as his potential opponent.
Jim Cornette who is considered as one of the greatest wrestling managers in the wrestling recently spoke on his Jim Cornette Experience Podcast where he talked about the recent return of John Cena to Friday Night SmackDown. He also said that he wished WWE had more stars on their shows. He said;
“Well, not for a pay-per-view, what pay-per-views are there now? Well, but at the same time, I mean, priorities are switching. I’m not saying what pay-per-views are there. I’m saying everybody pays per view on the Peacock along with viewing 7 million other f*cking things. It’s not that, this is not the UFC, it’s not pro wrestling anymore. It’s not the big fight, the big match, we’re gonna pay $50 to see the two biggest stars in the world f*cking collide in this epic fight.”
“It’s FOX is paying us more than we’re probably getting from Peacock or from this part of Peacock or whatever the f*ck. Let’s see what we can do for the ratings. And it’s also when we can get John Cena. So in this case, yes, their rights are going to be renegotiated coming up, as everybody’s been talking about in the next year, year and a half. This is what it is now, network television.”
“And I wish they would start treating the rest of Smackdown and maybe even goddamn Raw, like a pay-per-view, or network television, or we got to have some stars, we got to have a little more variety, we got to bring some big guns in, we got to have better matches and et cetera et cetera.”
“But as Cena and Owens against Zayn and Reigns. See it just, it almost even makes it, Zayn and Reigns. That’s gonna be a heck of a match because Owens’ and f*cking Sami’s d**ks are gonna be hard for weeks leading into that because they love working with each other more than they love breathing.”
“And Cena doesn’t want to embarrass himself, and Roman Reigns is the big dog, so that it’s gonna be f*cking good. And what will the story be coming out of it? So I think they’ve done good, they’ve done good for themselves there.”
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