Sami Zayn revealed the encouraging words John Cena shared with him after his surprising WWE Championship win.
Zayn won the WWE Championship from Cody Rhodes at Night of Champions in Saudi Arabia. Since then, Zayn has been met with an outpouring of support from his peers and fans. During an appearance on ESPN New York’s Don, Hahn, and Rosenberg, Zayn spoke about how all of the messages he’s received have moved him.
Zayn said the response has been very touching, and said that one unexpected message he received came from John Cena.
Sami Zayn says John Cena reminded him how difficult becoming WWE Champion is
“One message that I got, that I guess I didn’t expect, although—yeah, no, I didn’t expect it, and it was extremely nice, was from John Cena. He sent me a message. He just kind of reminded me of the difficulty of attaining this. Less than 1% of people who ever aspire to do what we do ever gets to this point. And that’s not lost on me.
“But to hear it coming from him, just saying, congratulations and one of the things he said that also really touched me, is just that this is a genuinely earned—and I don’t want to throw out, personal stuff that he said to me. But the thing that stuck [with] me is just that he said, ‘You really did it your way.’ And man, I just thought that was so cool coming from him.”
Zayn said that Cena is the man because he didn’t have to text him at all, but he did it to support him. “It was really one of the more touching texts I got, to be honest.”
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