Professional wrestling legend and a future WWE Hall of Famer John Cena who is a former sixteen times WWE World Champion recently said that Vince McMahon once wanted to turn heel and what Cena said in response.
John Cena is indeed one of the biggest names not only in WWE but in the world of professional wrestling as well. He remained the face of WWE for over a decade and of course he was a huge attraction. He won the WWE World Championship for a record number of 16 times. Nobody else could win so many World Championships in WWE history.
John Cena Reveals Vince McMahon Almost Turned Him Heel Once
But a common complaint has always remained with him was he never turns heel after he became the face of WWE. When he started his main roster career in WWE, he played a heel role for nearly a year.
He turned babyface in late 2003 never to turn heel once again. This is the reason why a lot of WWE fans hated him. There were a lot of fans who only wanted to see him as a heel wrestler, but the wish was never been granted.
Fans often wonder why WWE never turned heel. Every big name in the promotion who remained face of the promotion has turned heel. Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, the Undertaker in and even Hulk Hogan turned heel. The only person who never turned heel was John Cena.
A lot of fans believe that it was because of the PG product of WWE. Majority of fans also believe that the PG product of WWE is also responsible for the downgrade of the promotion. John Cena is now fully focused on Hollywood. So it is nearly impossible to see him as a regular heel ever in professional wrestling.
John Cena who is a former sixteen times WWE World Champion recently spoke on The Pat McAfee Show where he said that Vince McMahon once wanted to turn heel and what Cena said in response. He said;
“I’m playing a character that, you know, like I said, a character of virtue, a character that started as a generic wrestler, and then morphed into this hip-hop persona, then morphed into this character of virtue.
“To play the same character for a long time, that’s a challenge. I loved the challenge, I really loved it when like, early on, you know… I remember Vince toying with the idea of possibly turning me heel for The Rock, The Rock I in Miami, and I told him, like, ‘Hey, no problem, 100% I’ll do it, but just remember that this is so… we’re so deep in at this point, we can’t do it and then jump back because we’ll be sunk at both ends, so if we do it, I have to be the opposite of virtue, I have to be pure evil and we have to go all in.’
“And from a believability standpoint I’ve always… you know, people always see me in uniform, go figure that. If you didn’t see me in a suit in WWE, you saw me in a ballcap, t-shirt, jean shorts, sneakers. You saw me in uniform because I want people to know that what they see is somebody they can relate to.”
“And he [Vince] decided against it. It’s at that point, he was like, ‘Listen, I don’t think we’re ever gonna do it.’”
“So that’s me getting… OK, you have the luxury of playing this character, but you always are gonna play this character, which was great,” Cena said. “It got me to dive into nuances that kind of spawned the creation of, like, The Firefly Fun House Match, where like, ‘Yo, what if I went on a meta experience through all of my flaws and, like, my timeline.’
“So you could do stuff like that, but it’s really fun to be able to be like, ‘Hey, you wanna be this weird dude who thinks he’s a superhero and murders people in the name of peace? Yeah, yeah, that sounds like a great time, I’d like to do that as well. Or do you want to be this weird conflicted boyfriend and have awkward sex with Amy Schumer on camera, and like, yeah that’ll be fun, I can tell some jokes during that, that’d be fun.’
“So, it’s not that I thought I would be any good, it’s when you do something for so long as you do it… what brings me back to WWE isn’t the falling down, it isn’t the improvement of physical skills, it’s the story-telling.
“I like being able to tell a story with Roman Reigns, that I don’t think he’s a worthy champion, and for people to buy into that, and not because he’s not… not because of the value of the belt, let’s say.
“It’s because of who he is as a human being, and point out what I believe are his character flaws, and then we go back & forth about that. I love the challenge of telling a story and acting is literally just being able to change characters whenever you want, and tell a new story. And I found that pretty intriguing.”
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