John Cena makes his hotly anticipated return to Uncooked on Monday night time weeks after his gorgeous heel flip at Elimination Chamber.
Cena hasn’t been seen in WWE since an epic storyline twist noticed him flip heel – change into a villain – for the primary time in many years.
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Having performed the hero to followers world wide for years, the veteran obtained to roll again the clock with a dastardly activate present-day hero and present Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes.
On the climax of the occasion, he attacked the American Nightmare and aligned with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson forward of Cena’s problem for the world title at WrestleMania later within the Spring.
He’ll confront his foe on Uncooked from Brussels, Belgium on Monday night time in his first displaying since that each one unfolded.
WWE has been praised for the subtlety of its long-term storytelling lately, with feuds and rivalries now outfitted with a number of layers and loads of ‘hidden’ easter eggs and callbacks.
As such, and as stunning because the Elimination Chamber finale was, some are satisfied they’ve traced its roots all the best way again to 2021.
Cena was, again then, feuding with, amongst others, Rock’s cousin, Roman Reigns, who is sort of sure to function on this saga once more earlier than all is claimed and finished.
Re-sharing a clip from one SmackDown episode, the 16-time former world champion could be seen mouthing off to Reigns counting to a few on his fingers earlier than making a throat-slashing gesture.
The Rock, showing at Unhealthy Blood final yr in his first look since WrestleMania XL, mysteriously stood on the ramp, confronting Reigns, and likewise counted to a few earlier than slicing throughout his throat together with his fingers. The Hollywood star then repeated the throat slash on the Chamber.
The clips are, certainly, eerily related and are sufficient for not less than some to be satisfied they’re linked.
“John Cena and The Rock teaming up was the plan since 2021,” asserted one fan, the clip having since amassed nearly 850k views.
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“Lengthy-term reserving at its best,” mentioned one other fan, whereas a 3rd wrote: “That is cinema, absolute cinema.”
Some have been adamant Cena’s 1-2-3 was related to his match with Reigns on the time and had no resemblance to what Rock is doing now, just for one other counter to insist: “They would not have introduced the Retirement Tour almost a yr in the past, if it wasn’t deliberate properly prematurely.”
One other fan, satisfied, adopted up: “How did nobody choose up on this after Unhealthy Blood??” whereas one other referred to as it ‘eerie in hindsight.”
The Belgium Uncooked is the newest occasion in an enormous European tour for WWE.
Final Friday’s Smackdown was held in entrance of a raucous crowd in Barcelona, Spain, as a packed fanbase serenaded stars like Rhodes and Randy Orton.
The UK is handled to the stay motion within the coming days after SmackDown airs from Italy on Friday.
London’s O2 Area levels subsequent week’s Uncooked and SmackDown earlier than the twenty fourth March Uncooked comes from Glasgow and the OVO Hydro, web site of Conflict on the Citadel: Scotland.
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Different European occasions embody non-televised stay occasions in Belfast, Eire and Nottingham, England on March twenty second and twenty third respectively.
The Uncooked and SmackDown episodes can be of explicit curiosity to followers on this facet of the pond – they’ll be capable to watch all of them on the much more sociable time of 7pm UK time quite than having to attend to look at stay within the early hours of the morning in step with US time.
Brits can watch Uncooked and SmackDown stay on Netflix together with all different present WWE programming.