John Cena reveals the role Stone Cold Steve Austin played in deciding the outcome of his squash match against Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam 2014.
SummerSlam 2014 featured one of the most one-sided matches in history when Brock Lesnar squashed John Cena to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Lesnar dominated Cena by giving him 16 suplexes and two F5s to win the match.
John Cena has addressed this match on multiple occasions, and one such instance from an interview with Sam Roberts on Notsam Wrestling is making the rounds on X/Twitter once again. Cena went into detail about how they decided the outcome and revealed that Brock Lesnar and WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin came up with the idea.
“Brock was taken from OVW and pushed into being champion immediately,” John Cena began. “I was given an opportunity at the beginning and then became an enhancement talent. And even when I re-identified myself as a hip-hop artist or rapper, I was an enhancement talent. So, I had a two-year understudy of this is your job, this is the story.
“Arn Anderson, I remember, ‘It’s just not your night, kid. Yet, the story is for this.’ So, I have great equity in, like, my piece is to make this interesting. Brock is one of the most giving performers when it’s his time, and he will make anyone look great.”
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“But I remember Brock being like, ‘Hey, you know I had dinner with Steve Austin last night and we came up with this idea where I just start suplexing you and don’t stop, and then beat you.’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ He was like, ‘What do you mean?’ I was like, ‘Well, we both collectively agree that you just beat the streak. We’d ruin that if we have a 50-50 match.’ It’s not my night, kid, Arn Anderson in the back of my head. I hope he understands the influence he had on my wisdom of this,” John Cena continued.
“It’s not my night. How do you showcase the enormity of that win? How do we not waste The Undertaker‘s streak? It’s not just Brock winning a match. It’s all those matches that he had to lead up to losing. If I go out and have a 50-50 match, and he just sneaks over, we wasted all that. But if you take that unbelievable feat with another unbelievable feat, now we have passed the energy. And that is how you make someone, and then that someone can make others. That’s how the business works. You have to be able to work together,” John Cena said.
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