Maria Kanellis is no more part of the WWE landscape but that didn’t stop her from opining about the recent Vince McMahon retirement. Wrestling fans have been speculating a lot about the head honcho gone from the company and per the self-proclaimed First Lady, it would bring a big change in the industry. Besides she herself could also make a comeback now that Triple H and Stephanie McMahon are in charge.
Almost a decade ago, Maria Kanellis entered the WWE through the Diva Search contest but it wasn’t until a romantic angle with the legendary John Cena that people got to know more about her. To be honest, that storyline made her the top-most popular female superstar of that era, and capitalizing on that, she was even featured on the cover of Playboy Magazine.
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John Cena had grown a strong bond with Maria Kanellis at that point of her career which also led to rumors the two possibly dating which wasn’t the case. In a recent Interview with James, the latter recently recalled an incident where the Cenation Leader reacted to her colleague not drinking since she had to be off bed early in the morning.
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Maria Kanellis didn’t really love to have drinks
“I would hold the drink, I just didn’t really drink it … All night, I had been pouring my drinks out into a plant, and apparently, John had seen me pouring my drink out in the plant and he’s like, ‘I see what you’re doing.’ He’s like, ‘But, I respect that.’ He’s like, ‘Thanks for coming out, kid,’ and that was it and he never brought it up again … I always had a great relationship with him in the sense that I always felt that I could ask him questions about the industry,” Maria Kanellis stated. (quotes courtesy Wrestling INC)
The storyline with John Cena didn’t last long for Maria Kanellis and there’s no clarification either if the two were attracted to each other, legit. Later, speculations had that Cena’s ex-girlfriend Nikki Bella was one of the main reasons to remove Maria Kanellis from her WWE contract in 2010.
After the departure, Maria Kanellis returned to WWE in 2017 as a part of the Smackdown brand alongside her husband, Mike Bennett, who went by the name of Mike Kanellis in WWE. John Cena featured on that blue brand at that time but the two never had the opportunity to share the screen in any TV angle.
