John Cena recently opened up about one special match from his WWE farewell tour that he actually went back and watched again.
During his retirement run, Cena had big matches against stars like Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton, CM Punk, Logan Paul, and Dominik Mysterio. However, his match with AJ Styles stood out the most because of the atmosphere and the moment.
John Cena Reflects on Special Match Atmosphere
Speaking at MEGACon Orlando, Cena said the crowd in Perth made the match unforgettable. He said, “The atmosphere in Perth was like something I’d never seen. I’d never seen that many like t-shirts. I know for a fact we didn’t give them away, but it’s like we gave them away. I wore yellow that night and like the whole crowd was yellow.”
“I’m used to 50-50 or like, sometimes people will wear an older shirt. So the atmosphere, I think, really swept everybody up, and because the audience was smart enough to understand what we were doing as well, like, you can do all this cool stuff that you think is cool, but if you guys don’t get it, I’m kind of being selfish.”
He also revealed that Styles had already told him about his retirement plans ahead of the match, which made the match even more meaningful. “So I think we had a moment of, like, serendipity where you have you have these two performers, and I knew AJ shared with me that he was going to retire in January.”
“So I really think the world of him and wanted to do something special and make it special, and then you had an audience that kind of understood that, and man, like halfway through, I don’t watch a lot of matches back because I like to live the moment. I don’t like to get into my head and I’m like, what could I have done different? I can’t, it’s done. That’s one that I have watched back and like man, the audience was calling spots for us.” [H/T: Fightful]
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