It could be argued that no one has more Wrestlemania classics than The Undertaker, but even the phenom has a few self-admitted missteps.
In WWE’s revealing docuseries The Last Ride, Taker watched his match against Roman Reigns at Wrestlemania 33. Undertaker wasn’t in the best physical shape at that time, and the match suffered from a few botches along the way.
“It’s like bloated Elvis,” Taker reacted. “I feel bad for Roman. You dream about that match, to be in that match and tearing the house down and I wasn’t able to give him that. That bothers me. He [was] probably looking at me thinking, ‘What was that guy all about?’ It was really disappointing.”
In Dean Ambrose‘s infamous podcast with Stone Cold Steve Austin, he pulled back the curtain on his Wrestlemania 32 match with Brock Lesnar.
“I felt like I was pulling teeth. Brock didn’t want to do anything, to be honest,” Ambrose said. “I had a vision for that match to be the craziest thing imaginable. I was trying to pitch everything to everybody and had every idea and I put so much effort in and so much work in and other people did too… and I was met with laziness.”
Watch these WWE legends shoot on their worst Wrestlemania matches below.
The king of terrible wrestling movies is obviously the immortal Hulk Hogan. Two of Hulk‘s worst films — Suburban Commando and Santa With Muscles — had some surprising cameos in them. In Suburban Commando, Hulk has perhaps the clunkiest fight scene in movie history with a young Undertaker, who played a henchman with rocket shoes.
Brutus Beefcake can be seen in Santa With Muscles in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo. This one definitely hasn’t aged well, with Beefcake playing a sumo wrestling henchman. Twas a different time for sure.
Attitude Era siren Sable had a pretty significant role in one of the most unwatchable movies of the early 2000s — Corky Romano starring Chris Kattan. Alongside Verne Troyer (aka Mini Me from Austin Powers) Sable plays a bouncer at an illegal underground casino. After refusing entry to Kattan, she has a fight scene with the unpolished mafioso. Sable even drops an elbow in her fight scene before it gets taken over by Troyer.
Check out these cameos and more (including a genuinely hilarious one from Roddy Piper in Wrestlers vs. Zombies) in the compilation video below.
As the Attitude Era broke into the Ruthless Aggression era, kayfabe was also breaking down in real time. During this crucial period when the curtain was being pulled back on the business, Howard Stern conducted some of the most revealing (and sometimes cruel) interviews of all time.
The Howard Stern library features perhaps the most complete telling of the Triple H / Chyna / Stephanie McMahon love triangle. All three participants got to have their say on the air, with very little contradiction taking place.
Triple H and Stephanie both took responsibility for their affair, and Stephanie revealed that Vince McMahon initially gave them his blessing, before taking it away and forcing the now-married couple to break up. You can watch the full story told by its participants in the video below.
Bret Hart also gave one of his most revealing interviews to Stern shortly after the Montreal Screwjob. Hart went into extreme detail regarding the infamous night in Canada, along with the knockout punch he hit Vince McMahon with backstage. It perfectly fills in the missing pieces of the story, captured by a documentary crew for Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows.
Check out these revealing WWE interviews on Howard Stern, also including moments with John Cena, The Big Show, Iron Sheik and more.
Wrestling fans always love seeing their favorite performers pop up somewhere unexpected. In this case, it’s a bunch of game shows from the 1980s until present day!
Out of these eight WWE stars, who would you guess is the smartest? Terri Runnels, Kane, Edge, Bubba Ray Dudley, D-Von Dudley, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Jerry the King Lawler, Debra.
The collection of WWE Superstars got to find out themselves when they appeared on The Weakest Link in 2002. It was the second WWE episode of the popular game show, following a 2001 episode where the final round ended up in a battle between Triple H and Stephanie McMahon. Find out who won in the video below.
Chris Jericho didn’t only compete on The Price Is RAW with Bob Barker, he also made an appearance on The Dating Game back in his WCW days. Jericho was against Billy Kidman and Disco Inferno, and was ultimately chosen by the Jerichoholic bachelorette.
Jericho also made a hilarious appearance on the classic Nickelodeon game show Figure It Out, where Y2J got slimed for the sin of having a ponytail.
Check out these wrestler cameos on game shows in the compilation video below.
Dustin Rhodes has carved out a Hall of Fame career that’s spanned five decades. Though he’s experienced a marvelous second act in AEW, Rhodes will always be remembered for portraying the most bizarre character in WWE history — Goldust.
Though Rhodes was uncomfortable with the extremely flamboyant and androgynous gimmick at first, he took Goldust and ran with the character better than any Superstar could have.
The gimmick got over with fans in 1996, when Goldust faced Savio Vega at Madison Square Garden. At Vega‘s insistence, Rhodes began grind on his opponent during every hold. The NYC fans immediately reacted with both laughter and repulsion, allowing Goldust to become one of the biggest heels in the company. Goldy was so popular he even appeared on Conan O’Brien, where he relentlessly flirted with the late night host.
Goldust‘s hilarity maintained even when he turned face. His tag team partnership with Booker T created dozens of hilarious moments, like when Goldust parodied The Crocodile Hunter to terrorize the nWo or imitated The Rock only to have the Most Electrifying Man in Sports Entertainment standing right behind him.
For all these moments and more, check out this compilation of Goldust‘s funniest moments.
Jim Ross, iconic announcer and former Executive Vice President of Talent Relations in WWE, has named Tiger Ali Singh as the worst talent he ever signed.
When asked by a Grilling JR listener about his worst signing, Ross reluctantly offered his answer.
“I think maybe the one that we wasted a lot of time on was Tiger Jeet Singh’s son… Tiger Ali Singh,” JR admitted. “Yeah, I already forgot his name. Nice kid, good looking, smart… he just didn’t have the natural ability to connect to the audience. He looked good, he looked the part. Vince [McMahon] loved him. Vince was looking at opening up international markets where Tiger Ali Singh would have been a special, you know, a viable option.”
JR continued, “When I signed him, he almost demanded to fly first class. I kicked that idea back ’cause that’s not what Vince wanted to do. Vince would’ve squashed it anyway. We had a compromise where he would fly first class on the last leg of his tour.”
“So he when he got off the plane in Toronto, where he lived, where he’s from, he would be with that group of first class passengers that got off the plane first. So people could see him get off the plane first and assume automatically that he was riding in the first class like a star. So we did that for him, but it still didn’t work. I wish it did work out because he could have made a fortune in international markets without question, but it didn’t come to be.”
Plenty of combat sports athletes have found their way into professional wrestling, including Olympians like Kurt Angle and Ronda Rousey and UFC champions like Ken Shamrock and Dan Severn. However, there are also pro wrestlers who turned to MMA for a new career, or even just a quick buck.
Brock Lesnar is the most successful WWE wrestler turned mixed martial artist. Using his NCAA college wrestling skills, Lesnar fought his way into the UFC and eventually beat the legendary Randy Couture to win the UFC Heavyweight Championship. Lesnar even defended the strap twice before losing to heavyweight icon Cain Velasquez.
A MMA career that didn’t go so well belongs to Alberto Del Rio, who went by the name of Dos Caras Jr. in an ill-fated Pride FC bout against absolute killer Mirko Cro Cop. With no professional mixed martial arts experience, Del Rio was essentially a lamb to slaughter, getting viciously knocked out via head kick in the first round.
Attitude Era wrestler Giant Silva didn’t fare much better in MMA, accumulating a record of 2-6 with four TKO losses in Pride. The seven-footer did however notch two victories via kimura armbar.
Check out this compilation of WWE wrestlers trying their hand at MMA below.
Maxwell Jacob Friedman is the new AEW World Champion, but even at the height of his career, MJF carries a major regret. In a new interview with Mostly Sports, MJF shared his feelings on never being able to wrestle John Cena.
Cena vs. Friedman never accumulated thanks to Cena being a WWE lifer and MJF sticking with AEW after his 2024 contract negotiation. It could have been a match for the ages, but with even Drew McIntyre never getting a one-on-one match with Cena, it’s no shock that MJF never shared the ring with the 17-time champ.
When asked if it bothers him that a Cena match was never able to happen, MJF answered, “Yes, absolutely. I think that there is a different world where that match would have happened. Unfortunately, it’s not this one.”
“I’ve had so many incredible run-ins with John where we’ve shot the shit. He’s an incredible guy. He watches our product. He’s seen my stuff. He was very complimentary. Obviously, I’m super complimentary to him.”
MJF added, “I’ve said it before in other interviews, but before CM Punk, my favorite wrestler growing up as a kid was John Cena. He was a fathead on my wall in my bedroom. So I’d wake up, salute the OG, and then get ready for school.”
Seth Rollins recalled nearly being fired from WWE developmental back in the early 2010s. The currently injured Superstar told the story while appearing on Mohr Stories.
“I was on the chopping block. [Triple H] told me, ‘Yeah, one more. One more and you’re gone. One more. I don’t care how good you are. You’re not going to get a chance to show the world. We will fire you.’ I had that conversation with Triple H,” Rollins explained.
“I was sitting in Full Sail University. I remember sitting in the back, and he [Triple H] was like, ‘You’re being difficult with this guy. This guy thinks you’re difficult.’ I butted heads quite a bit when I got down to Florida. And, you know, Triple H didn’t appreciate it, and my attitude wasn’t appreciated, and it was like, if one more negative report comes back, we will fire you.”
While guesting on Broken Skull Sessions with Stone Cold Steve Austin, Rollins revealed the person he rubbed the wrong way was trainer and former WWE wrestler Terry Taylor.
“I had to have that confidence to be who I was and to get to where I wanted to go, I knew that, but that would rub some people the wrong way,” Rollins said. “One person who it rubbed the wrong way, and maybe this is some leftover heat from me shunning him during contract talks, is Terry Taylor.
Iconic WWE commentator and former Executive Vice President of Talent Relations, Jim Ross, has a theory about why Vince McMahon always seemed to have it out for him. In a new episode of Grilling JR, Ross spoke about a potential jealousy McMahon had toward his stellar commentary skills.
Vince McMahon was famously a play-by-play commentator during the New Generation era, having been appointed to the position by his father, Vince McMahon Sr. The junior McMahon did the job well enough, but never received the praise that JR did during the Attitude Era.
“I have never understood Vince’s intense animosity. I think he was jealous,” Ross pondered. “He was never gonna be… he was never the play-by-play guy that I was, but he didn’t want to give me any credit for helping build the Attitude Era into what it was.”
“I’m not the only person responsible for that, for God’s sakes. I’m not trying to say that. All I’m trying to say is I signed all those guys that made him millions of dollars and facilitated the company going public.”
JR also spoke about the importance of letting all the stress go, even when McMahon chose to publicly humiliate JR on worldwide television.
“I always put my faith in my work. As much grief as he gave me, I could always look at my bank account and get happy. I never had the animosity toward Vince that he had toward me and I never got it,” Ross added.
“I didn’t screw him around, I never no-showed, I didn’t phone anything in. I never understood it… I worked my ass off, but sometimes that’s just the way that it is. I had a choice to carry that animosity and that angst with me or cut it loose and move on. That latter is what I’ve done.”
When you’re a wrestling fan, seeing an old WWE or WCW star in a movie is the ultimate easter egg. Here are some of the greatest wrestler cameos in classic movies, including some you may have missed.
Perhaps the most beloved wrestling cameo of all time is Andre the Giant‘s role in The Princess Bride. Andre played Fezzik, a gentle giant who thrives as one of the film’s main companions.
The role meant so much to Andre that he reportedly held VHS screenings of the movie before The Princess Bride had even hit theaters. It was a transformative role for the giant, and it gave Andre something beautiful to enjoy as his body was failing.
Here’s a cameo you’ve definitely seen, but may have missed its connection to wrestling. Remember Kurrgan from The Oddities? He played one of the most monstrous soldiers in the historical epic 300.
Kurrgan was cast as the Über-Immortal, a berserker who was part of the Persian imperial guard. Arguably the best fight scene in the movie, Kurrgan‘s character tore through the Spartans until facing King Leonidas, who drove a knife into Kurrgan‘s eye and decapitated him. Not bad for a former jobber.
Check out these wrestler cameos in classic movies below.
One of the most legendary backstage fights in professional wrestling is the titanic encounter between the Big Show and the Great Khali. Several WWE Superstars have told their story of what happened, but the Undertaker just laid out his own version of events, along with how he ribbed Big Show after the fact.
At a WWE event in Puerto Rico, Show and Khali had been partners in a tag team match. After Khali allegedly stole one of Big Show‘s signature moves — pushing his opponent into the corner, shushing the crowd and delivering a big slap to the chest — Show got heated with Khali after the match and words eventually turned into blows.
On the latest episode of Six Feet Under, Undertaker and Michelle McCool spoke with Mark Henry about the fight.
“To his credit, Khali can take a shot, because Show flushed him,” Undertaker said. “I mean, it sounded like taking a big ol’ rib eye steak and throwing it on the counter. It was like [smack!]. I don’t know if something held [Khali] up, but if I’d have hit him that way, I would’ve had to look and see what was holding him up from behind, because Show rocked him.”
Undertaker continued, “[William] Regal broke the whole thing up. Regal came in there like a spider monkey, in a towel. He had Khali fish hooked and had Khali‘s head ripped around. It was impressive.”
A consummate ribber, Taker went on to reveal how he’s continued to poke at the Big Show over the years.
“I give Show grief. I probably shouldn’t even tell the story cuz I’ve never let him off the hook. Show was getting was getting to him, right? The fight happened, obviously, in the men’s dressing room… so they’re fighting right? Two seven-footers going at it and they tripped over a bag or something like that. So when they tripped and they both fall, Show just happened to fall on bottom. So when Regal broke it up, Khali‘s on top.”
“So it gets all broke up and they’re separated and Show‘s in the dressing room with me and I’m just looking at him and he’s like, ‘What?!’ I was like, ‘Dang man, he had you down.’ Oh my gosh, I thought he was actually going to come across the room and attack me he was so mad.”
“I remember you were doing it to him on the bus or something,” McCool added. “You said something about, ‘You got one good shot in,’ and Khali was like, ‘Yeah but my jaw only hurts from the fish hook.’”
Listen to the full story at around 1:27:00 in the video below.
In his version of the story, Khali claims that he knocked Big Show down with a punch, which the Undertaker did not recall.
“I took off my shoe, and then he came to punch me,” Khali said. “I leaned back. I got up and leaned again for the second punch. When I punched him, he got knocked down and I got on top of him. After two or three punches, all the people in the locker room pulled us apart. Afterward, he started crying. He thought he could impress the young talent by taking me out, but it backfired on him.”
Chris Jericho wrote in his book The Best in the World: At What I Have No Idea that Khali did strike Big Show back after being hit, but noted that Show and Khali ended up on the floor because they tripped over.
Andrade has opened up about his 2024 divorce from fellow wrestler Charlotte Flair. In a new interview, Andrade takes the blame for the relationship ending.
Andrade just returned to the ring for the first time since his departure from WWE on December 13, winning the WWC Universal Title in Puerto Rico. Before the match, he spoke with Wrestlebinge about a variety of subjects, including his divorce.
“She is amazing. Charlotte is amazing,” Andrade said. ‘She’s an amazing woman and an amazing person. She was an amazing wife.”
He continued, “It was my fault. She didn’t lose me, I lost her. I did something, or maybe I didn’t do something. I lost her. She did not lose me. It was a simple divorce, but the problem was not her. The problem was me.”
“People talk on Twitter and Instagram and everywhere, but it’s like, hey, I know she’s been married a couple of times, but I’m a man and I respect her, and I wish her nothing but the best.”
Charlotte and Andrade‘s divorce was famously brought up by Tiffany Stratton in a promo during the buildup to Wrestlemania 41. Stratton later apologized for the unplanned line, admitting she went too far by referencing Flair‘s three real-life divorces.
Chelsea Green is the WWE Universe’s favorite klutz. And as awkward as her character can be in the ring, the real Chelsea can be just as socially maladjusted behind the scenes.
In a new interview with Chris Van Vliet, Green told a story about embarrassing herself in front of Triple H and Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger.
“I put my foot in my mouth all the time,” Green prefaced. “I had a previous Smackdown that I begged to be on… begged, begged, begged to be on. I was on it, ‘Yay exciting.’ I come to the back, my sister is dating someone who invited Chad from Nickelback to come watch me. Also a flex, especially for a Canadian.”
Green continued, “So I’m backstage and I’m taking Chad Kroeger all around. I am flexing, big flex. And even a bigger flex, when my boss Mr H. comes out and wants a photograph with Chad. I’m standing beside him like, ‘What? Yeah, I invited him. I did this, I’m setting this up.’ So instead of staying quiet I decide to say to my boss and Chad, ‘Isn’t your first wrestling show so amazing?’ To which Chad and Triple H say, ‘We literally did the Wrestlemania theme song. I’ve been to a million wrestling shows.’ So that was the day I stopped talking to Chad from Nickelback. Short and sweet friendship.”
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When asked about her favorite Nickelback song, Green replied, “All of them, you can’t pick. If you’re a Canadian you can’t pick, you just put on the Nickelback shuffle playlist.”
John Cena is the newest spokesperson for consuming human flesh! The WWE legend made a cameo on the new drama series Pluribus, where he stars in an infomercial for a nutritional supplement that contains protein from dead bodies.
Pluribus is the newest series from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan. The new show centers around an alien virus, which infects humanity and transforms the population into a peaceful and passive hive mind. Some are immune to the virus, including the show’s main character played by Rhea Seehorn, who seeks to reverse the virus’ grip on humanity.
In Cena’s infomercial, he explains some of the new rules that humans must follow in regards to food.
“As you know, we can’t purposely kill, harm, or otherwise interfere with any form of life,” Cena says. “That limits what we’re able to consume. Because when we say ‘any life,’ that includes plant life. We can’t harvest wheat or corn or rice. We can’t pluck an apple from a tree. Once an apple drops of its own accord, well, we’ll eat it, of course, and gratefully.”
Cena goes on to explain one of the new supplement’s ingredients — HDP.
“Each carton contains eight to 12 percent of something we call HDP. Human-derived protein. And yep, that’s pretty much what it sounds like. Nearly 100,000 people pass away each day due to natural causes and accidents. Those human remains, which would otherwise go to waste, are our source of HDP. We cherish the memory of these people and appreciate their sacrifice. Given our druthers, would we choose to consume HDP? No. Throughout history, most cultures, though not all, have taken a dim view of anthropophagy. Honestly, we’re not that keen on it ourselves. But we’re left with little choice.”
Vince Gilligan went on to praise Cena in an interview with Deadline.
“We just thought, ‘Who better than John Cena to make palatable the idea of eating human flesh, you know?’ Boy, that guy has a schedule. That guy is a busy guy, and he was nice enough to shoot this thing,” Gilligan said.
“He was just the coolest guy. It was one of those things: Who would [be] someone who would delight the audience when he or she popped up to explain why humanity now lives off of protein from human bodies? It’s such a non sequitur, and yet, in a way, it’s not because he just has this personality and [with] everything that he does you find him likable and you find him trustworthy; you think, ‘Man, I’d like to have a beer with that guy.’”
Did you know John Cena was on The Simpsons? It’s true! Cena was prominently featured on the Simpsons‘ Season 36 premiere, playing himself as he saved a baby in Comic Book Guy’s store.
As Comic Book Guy’s girlfriend was about to give birth, Cena burst into the store and exclaimed, “How about the only licensed midwife to win 16 WWE championships??”
Turns out Cena was in Springfield to hype up Otto the Bus Driver’s new line of THC-infused energy drinks, but when it was time to save the day, Cena helped the woman give birth, cutting the umbilical cord with a Star Trek Klingon Bet’leth. He even hit the newborn with a “You can’t see me.”
From the early seasons of The Simpsons, Bret Hart‘s cameo remains of the very greatest. Hart made his way to Springfield to tour Mr. Burns’ former mansion as the dishonorable billionaire was moving out.
“This place has got old man stink!” Hart quipped before Mr. Burns asked if it’d be okay if he took one of his portraits off the wall. “Why would I want a picture of a pitiful, pencil-neck geek?” Hart responded.
Jade Cargill has revealed that she’s making moves to potentially play the role of iconic X-Men character Storm in a future Marvel project.
The current WWE Women’s Champion has been compared to Storm for her entire wrestling career. Cargill‘s WWE entrance music is even called “A Storm Is Coming,” with those titular words being spoken before her theme kicks in.
During an interview with Going Ringside, Cargill was asked about possibly playing Storm in the near future.
“I’ve had my people talk to a certain amount of people [from Marvel],” Cargill said. “I’m hoping that things do transpire and they do see that this is something that I’ve always been passionate about my entire life. Let’s keep our fingers crossed, guys and let’s keep pushing.”
“Of course [I want to play] Storm. We don’t have to use any of the CGI. This is how I look. It’s like, what do we need? What do we need, guys? Of course.”
Halle Berry and Alexandra Shipp have famously both played Storm, with Shipp‘s latest appearance being 2019’s Dark Phoenix. Berry played Storm from the 2000 live action X-Men blockbuster until 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Bayley has opened up about the heartbreak of missing out on Wrestlemania 41. Despite being placed in a storyline with tag tam partner Lyra Valkyria, Bayley was replaced by Becky Lynch the day before WWE’s biggest yearly event, getting written off the show via a behind-the-scenes attack.
“The day they took me out [of Wrestlemania]? It was the day before,” Bayley began. “It’s a test. I feel like every time I get thrown stuff, it’s like I’m just being tested. Not by the company, by the universe and the world it trying to test me.”
“It was rough. It was a little bittersweet. I became really close with Lyra in real life, so I was super excited for her to have her first Wrestlemania, but it was also like, ‘Man, I was told this was where we were going.’”
The multi-time Women’s Champion was initially hesitant about being paired with Valkyria at the beginning of their program together, but the duo quickly found chemistry and became popular with the fans.
“Okay, I’m gonna be in this storyline in a tag team with this girl that I don’t even know,” Bayley remembered thinking. “I’m just talking about going to Wrestlemania as a tag team — ‘Don’t you think that’s kind of strange? Like, you’re the Intercontinental Champion and we don’t even know each other.’ I felt weird about it, but throughout the time, we had a few matches and I’m like, ‘Damn, we have good chemistry.’ I felt genuinely connected with her. She’s so good.”
Bayley continued telling Undertaker and McCool about how it felt when she learned of WWE’s disappointing decision.
“When I was told what was happening, I was like, ‘Oh, now I’m bummed.’ For one, I’m not at Wrestlemania. For two, we put all this work in and I really tried to make us look like a team.”
“It was rough, but it becoming part of a storyline and it becoming what it is now made it a little bit nicer. It’s definitely one of those times… I had a long conversation with [CM] Punk about it. A lot of people that were reaching out were like, ‘Everyone’s been in these positions.’ But yeah… I don’t know.”
Watch Bayley talk about Wrestlemania 41 at 48:00 in the video below.
Whether it’s kayfabe or not, these moments tested the interviewer’s comfort levels.
Conan O’Brien accumulated perhaps the greatest collection of wrestling interviews in talk show history. His verbal jabs with Triple H in the early 2000s made for some hilarious TV, but Conan‘s most uncomfortable interview was undoubtedly with Goldust.
Goldust unapologetically flirted with Conan from the beginning of the interview, asking, “Is that an extra microphone in your pants or are you just happy to see me?” The Bizarre One, who held the Intercontinental Championship at the time, even disrobed and crawled on his hands and knees behind Conan‘s desk. This was shocking television for the 1990s.
Arsenio Hall was a legendary wrestling interviewer in his own right. His electric sit-down with the Ultimate Warrior was must-see television, and Hall‘s reactions to the Warrior‘s outrageousness was peak comedy.
Hall also had a particularly tense interview with Bad News Brown. The segment was filled with verbal threats and intimidation, but Arsenio got the last laugh when he unexpectedly unleashed a real life snake onto the couch Brown was sitting on. There’s no way that last part was planned!
Check out this collection of uncomfortable interview moments in wrestling in the video below.
John Cena and Drew McIntyre have never had a one-on-one match, and with Cena‘s farewell just two weeks away, it looks like the bout just wasn’t meant to be.
In a new interview with ESPN, McIntyre expressed sadness for not snagging one of Cena‘s retirement tour matches, but the Scottish Psychopath praised the 17-time WWE Champion’s vast list of accomplishments.
“He’s meant everything to our industry,” McIntyre said. “When The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin left WWE, [with] the top superstars Triple H, Shawn Michaels at the end of their career, the company and the world needed somebody to step up into that top position. John stepped up in a massive way for multiple generations.”
“It’s insane to see that he’s about to have his last couple of matches. I’m sad I didn’t get one of them, but I’m glad I’m part of the roster. I’m glad I got to travel the world, I’m glad I got to learn from John Cena because he is a legend and he might just be the GOAT.”
Back in 2024, McIntyre told The Ringer Wrestling Podcast that he was planning to raise hell to get one of Cena‘s last matches.
“Cena is coming back for his year-long return, which is going to be awesome. I don’t know if I’m figured in the plans, but I guarantee I’ll be pushing and I’ll be nudging them left and right to make it happen because the amount of stories I’ve got about Punk and things that happened when I was younger, I’ve got tenfold on him.”
“There’s never been a one-on-one match. If I have to drive management crazy, I’ll drive them crazy, drive John crazy. I’m going to get that match and I’ll tear him apart on the microphone, which not many people can do in the ring, and send him packing in a happy retirement and hopefully Punk along with him.”
