Professional wrestling legend and future WWE Hall of Famer John Cena who is a record breaking former 16 times WWE World champion recently looked back at his debut match that took place back in 2002. He revealed what Vince McMahon told him when he got to know that he would be facing Kurt Angle.
John Cena made his WWE main roster Debut back in 2002 in an episode of Friday Night SmackDown. He had an impressive career in the Ohio Valley Wrestling before coming to the main roster. OVW was the development Territory of WWE back in the time where he was famously known as Prototype.
John Cena Reveals What Vince McMahon Told Him Before His Debut
His debut match took place against the Olympic gold medallist former WWE champion Kurt Angle. He might have lost the match but he earned a huge respect from the WWE universe. But nobody understood back then that we are going to get the next face of WWE since the original project of WWE to build as the next face was Brock Lesnar.
Cena was not instantly pushed as a main event star after that but he received a very slow push and it worked out pretty well. During that time we got to see him as a heel for the only time in his WWE career. At WrestleMania 21, he won his first WWE Championship and it was the beginning of his success in the world of WWE.
John Cena who is a record breaking former 16 times WWE World champion recently spoke to where he looked back at his debut match that took place back in 2002. He revealed what Vince McMahon told him when he got to know that he would be facing Kurt Angle. He said;
“I found out at 2:45 in the afternoon that I would be wrestling Kurt Angle,” Cena recalled. “I had one meeting with Mr. McMahon before this, and I was pushed into his office, and Michael Hayes asked, like, ‘What to we do with this?’ And Mr. McMahon’s first sentence to me, it was a short meeting, he said, ‘Cut his fucking hair!’ And then I was out of the office.
“Man, what an arena to debut in, too,” Cena said. “The Allstate Arena is loud and outspoken, that is for certain. I did not expect them to know or care who I was, but I think Mr. McMahon’s performance, combined with Kurt’s performance, got them a little interested, but I think it was a little bit more than ‘meh’, which is great.
“I think I would embody the words ‘Ruthless Aggression’ more. Like, I came out looking like a normal person, doing normal stuff. The beginning of the match seems to be pretty aggressive and ruthless, and fast. Thank you to Kurt for making me look so good, so quick.
“You look back on stuff like this and I definitely could’ve done better with the idea of Ruthless Aggression and been… uh, embodied it more, rather than just wear boots and tights, which is a rabbit hole we find a lot of ourselves going down. My look will identify my character, which is a bit of it, but it’s also demeanor, and nuance, and all that.”
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