How John Cena Learned To Last All Night Outside The Ring

One WWE Hall of Famer has explained just how John Cena learned to outlast all of his colleagues in a place almost as important as the ring – the bar.

John Cena entered a whole new world in 2002 when he made his debut in WWE. Nobody knew then that 23 years later, Cena’s final match would become the story of the year as the 17-time WWE Champion looks to bring the curtain down on one of the most legendary careers of all time.

John Cena Puts Everyone Else To Bed

Speaking on Something To Wrestle, the man Cena won the first of those 17 titles from – JBL – explained how Cena became a legend at the bar as well as in the ring:

We would have Monday off, so we started doing things on Monday. We started going golfing, we went to laser tags, we started doing all kinds of crazy stuff on Mondays. But it always involved booze, because we were young and having fun, and it’s one of the things we liked having as a party favor.

So we go golfing, and John can hit a ball a mile. He’s almost world class strength Olympic lifting, John’s a freak athlete, especially in strength. He can hit a golf ball a freakin’ mile. And dead straight. He didn’t play golf that well, because he didn’t play that often, but god he could hit a golf ball.

So we had a long drive contest, and he hit a ball and it was one of the rare times he didn’t crush it, so he lost. So he had to down a beer – that was the punishment.

So John downs the beer. Another one, downs another beer. We bet on putts, we bet on this, down a beer, down a beer, down a beer. And John looked at me at one point and said something kinda crazy and I thought, ‘That’s kinda strange.’

I found out later he had never drank before. So I would have never said for John to drink a beer, but out of respect, he didn’t say no. He did the same thing with Undertaker later with whiskey. Undertaker took him out, wanted to break him into the business and talk to him and drink some whiskey – John had never drank whiskey before.

So go from that, to say a few years later, John’s putting everybody to bed. This is how cool John is. One time, John told me, ‘Hey man, I just wanna say thanks, I’ve got my bus here, got some great catering for you, some steaks and some Moonshine, all kinds of things.’

We get on the bus and have all this Moonshine – by the end of it I don’t remember getting off the bus. And Cena’s putting me in the hotel and putting me to bed.

Cena has one of the highest tolerances. He’s like Andre (The Giant) level now. He’s the guy who puts people to bed. He’s the guy that oversees, would stay up, would drink. He doesn’t get drunk. He just sits there and drinks, he puts guys to bed, he takes care of everybody, then he goes to bed. Then he’s the first one up always in the morning in the gym training, setting an example.

Cena is – I’m telling you – Andre level drinking. [h/t WrestleTalk]

16 men are vying to become the final opponent of John Cena’s career in the Last Time Is Now tournament. That competition kicks off when Raw takes place in Boston with two matches. Those bouts will see Sheamus clash with Shinsuke Nakamura and Rusev face Damian Priest.

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