John Cena had a good reason for changing a particular finish during his heel run last year.
Netflix released the second season of the docuseries WWE: Unreal yesterday. The second episode focused on R-Truth’s release and subsequent return at the Money in the Bank PLE last year. The episode showed a clip of John Cena discussing the finish of his and Logan Paul’s tag team match against Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso.
While he went over R-Truth returning and hitting him with the WWE title belt during the final moments of the match, John Cena told Triple H that the only thing he wanted to make sure of was that Rhodes was still seen as the one who beat him, not Truth.
John Cena had a good reason for not wanting to lose to R-Truth
John Cena had a point since he was in the middle of his heel run. Losing strictly because of Truth’s interference could have reduced the impact of the moment he actually put Rhodes over clean at SummerSlam.
“What we have is Logan and Jey moonsault through the table. Cody’s dead in the ring. So, I go get the title. I was gonna use it on Cody. All we had was Truth coming in, taking the thing, like, ‘You can’t handle the Truth,’ and I go into the Cross Rhodes.
Cena said the finish needed to not only highlight Truth’s return, but keep the momentum on Rhodes going into their title rematch.
“We could have him take the thing, give me a fuc*ing AA, or knock me into a Cross Rhodes. My only thing was, I don’t want him to beat me, and not Cody to beat me,” John Cena said.
Cena went on to face R-Truth on the June 20, 2025, episode of WWE SmackDown, which Truth won by disqualification.
After dropping the Undisputed WWE Title to Cody Rhodes, John Cena put over Dominik Mysterio at Survivor Series: WarGames before tapping out to Gunther in his retirement match at Saturday Night’s Main Event.
During the same episode, R-Truth revealed a hilarious storyline he pitched to John Cena Sr.
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