One of the most shocking heel turns in recent history is the one of 16-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion John Cena at the Elimination Chamber Premium Live Event. Recently, WWE’s CCO Triple H revealed how many people knew about the heel turn in advance.
Triple H was interviewed recently by Pete Rosenberg. The interview aired on WWE’s official YouTube channel. While speaking to Rosenberg, The Game revealed the total number of people that were aware of John Cena’s heel turn. He shared that Cena did not even inform his wife or his manager about the character change.
Besides Triple H, The Rock and John Cena, only a couple of others were informed in advance about the heel turn.
“We kept that so quiet that on our side, three people on the exec team knew. That’s it. Me and two others. Nobody else knew. Cena knew, Cena didn’t even tell his wife. Cena didn’t even tell his manager. Cody knew, Cody told no one, right. Obviously Rock knew. Travis sort of knew but he was just f***ing going along, just being along for the ride. Doing exactly what they told him to do which is at some point slap Cody and he was slapping him whether Cena wanted it or not, cause Cena didn’t know about that part.” [H/T Fightful]
Triple H on how he ‘Directed Traffic’ at the end of the Elimination Chamber PLE
During the same interview, The Game shared how he directed traffic as the Elimination Chamber Premium Live Event came to an end.
“When we get to the end of the show, I have to tell everyone as we’re coming in to that last minute of Elimination Chamber, ‘Okay, there’s aftermath on this show. Everybody lay out, I’m directing traffic, I will call all of this. Marty, here’s how all of this is going to go.’ I rattle off all this shit to Marty, kind like shot for shot. It’s fast because we’re getting to the end of this match.
“Marty is like, ‘Holy sh*t.’ I’m like, ‘I will walk you through it’ because I’m still not saying on headset, and then John is going to turn on Cody. I’m leaving out details. So when we get there, I’m trying to be a fan and feel it and as it comes in, then technically put it out to the truck of where we need to go and hopefully be just ahead of it to where we can get it down,” he said.
Cena is set to challenge Cody Rhodes for the WWE Undisputed Universal Championship this Sunday, in the main event on night 2 of WrestleMania 41.
What was your reaction to John Cena’s heel turn?
