John Cena is all about hustle, loyalty… and disrespect.
The 16-time world champion, who had been the face of WWE for greater than twenty years, has lastly turned heel.
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He received the Elimination Chamber match on Saturday night time to punch his ticket to WrestleMania 41, however shocked followers along with his actions after the victory.
Cena aligned along with his former rival, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, to double-cross Cody Rhodes in entrance of a shocked crowd.
Because the Undisputed WWE Champion took to the ring to congratulate Cena on successful Elimination Chamber, The Rock and and rap star Travis Scott interrupted.
‘The Remaining Boss’ demanded a solution to his latest provide of taking Rhodes’ soul and turning him into ‘his champion’ – however was instructed to ‘go f*** your self’.
Cena initially embraced Rhodes for his robust response, however the WWE legend all of a sudden acquired a sign from The Rock, and seconds later, booted Cody beneath the belt.
He then carried out a devastating assault, leaving Rhodes in a bloody, crumpled heap in the course of the ring because the WWE Universe watched on.
And whereas it was The Rock who masterminded the surprising second within the ring, it was Triple H who made Cena’s heel flip occur behind the scenes.
Talking in a post-Elimination Chamber press convention, WWE’s Chief Content material Officer defined precisely how the historic second happened.
“I am a extremely large proponent of collaboration. I need all of the concepts, I need us to have a look at all of them and have conversations round what’s the neatest thing, and out of these issues, how can we tear these up and go in a very totally different path,” Triple H mentioned.
“In some unspecified time in the future in time, little germs of concepts are available in and, ‘What if? My God, what if, proper?’ And it simply begins to percolate. I am lucky on this timeframe that I’ve among the nice minds to work with.
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“Dwayne and I’ve been working collectively for, I do not know, virtually 30 years in some method. He is at all times been an epic storyteller.
“He is at all times been an epic man to get exterior of the field and say, ‘Let’s do one thing totally different. How can we blow this up and alter expectations?’
“So it begins with a bunch of individuals developing with nice concepts to attempt to entertain our followers and lead them in a path after which (take) them into the opposite path once they do not see it coming.
“Individuals are fairly savvy, they’re tuned in and sense issues coming. It’s why we get so upset once we see spoilers and issues leak, whenever you do get the precise ones which are on the market, it drives you nuts.
“The one factor I liked about tonight is that it was nowhere, as a result of no person knew. After I say no person knew, no person.”
In addition to praising The Rock and others for his or her collaboration on Cena’s heel flip, Triple H additionally praised the person himself for pulling it off to perfection.
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He continued: “I’ve been lucky to be round lots of the most important issues on this enterprise within the final 30 years. I don’t know that I’ve ever felt a extra highly effective second.
“Whenever you get to a spot in your profession, when you understand you may have months left on the factor that launched you to the remainder of the world, it places you in a special perspective.
“It places you in a spot of, it is now or by no means, and you may journey that out, and you may relaxation on the issues that you’ve got accomplished, and also you couldn’t actually blame John for doing that, for simply saying, ‘I’m gonna are available in and I’m gonna journey the nostalgia wave for the following ten months.’
“Or any person like him can double down and say, screw it, I wish to be challenged proper to the final second.
“I wish to exit on my protect, I wish to give this all the things I’ve. I wish to problem myself, I wish to do one thing totally different, I wish to be afraid of it, I wish to go on the market and do all of it. That’s the great thing about John Cena.”
With a historic heel flip, Cena has ensured his remaining 10 months in WWE are going to be epic.
All eyes will likely be on the 16-time world champion forward of WrestleMania, the place he’ll look to lastly seize his record-breaking seventeenth title towards Rhodes.