John Cena tapping out in his final WWE match continues to divide opinions across all forms of entertainment, even in the UFC.
Former UFC star Chael Sonnen was a recent guest on The Ariel Helwani Show. When it came to the finish of the match between John Cena and Gunther, Sonnen expressed his displeasure over the finish, and went as far as to say that he believes someone backstage in WWE isn’t Cena’s friend and set him up with that finish.
“John Cena, and you brought this up yesterday. Now you are so correct on this, and this is open to interpretation, and I have my own,” Chael Sonnen said. “John Cena is not a legit badass, not in the slightest. He didn’t go take martial arts classes, right? He was doing the bodybuilding and this kind of stuff. But it’s very relevant to understand that, because I don’t believe in my heart that John Cena understands what it means to tap and pass out.
“There’s very different taps. If your leg is going to snap because you’re in Ric Flair’s figure four, and you sacrifice the evening’s festivities for the goodness of your health, and your leg. If you tap out due to strikes, or if you tap out in a choke hold. John Cena, not being a badass, does not understand the difference in those three.
“Moreover, and evident of the fact is that he then passed out, Ariel. They not only got him to tap and quit, he then fell asleep. Now he fell asleep as a way of saying, I hung in there to the bitter end. It’s just from a physiological standpoint, not possible. You cannot tap and not have consciousness. It’s a double loss from a wrestling standpoint.
“It’s being pinned while being a technical fall. And whoever talked him into this in the back is not his friend. Whoever told him this is the way you want to do it, John. And then act like you’re unconscious, that you fought to the bitter end, is not his friend. And there’s only a few true shooters in the back, and one of them set him up.”
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