John Cena Says He Owes Fans Money For His Awful Character

John Cena has been in the wrestling business for over two decades. He has portrayed several distinct characters throughout his wrestling career.

His main roster WWE debut featured him as a generic rookie with “Ruthless Aggression.”

He soon transitioned to his breakthrough character, “The Doctor of Thuganomics.”

As WWE’s top babyface, John Cena evolved into the “Franchise Player” and later into “Super Cena.”

But before he joined WWE, he entered the world of wrestling as The Prototype in Ultimate Pro Wrestling.

During a recent Q&A panel at Liverpool, John Cena was asked about his Prototype gimmick.

The Last Real Champion expressed his embarrassment over the character and said that he owes his fans money for performing such an awful gimmick.

Cena said, “I was a 50% man. 50% machine. 100% awful. Don’t laugh.

I know you; some of you have seen that stuff. I think that is feel like I owe you money. I was finding my way. Okay.

[Host: It worked out great.] It worked out okay. [Host: You did pretty well for yourself.]’ (From 7:30)

The Rock Made The Biggest Impact In John Cena’s Life

During the same Q&A panel, John Cena also revealed that The Rock made the biggest impact on his life.

He also talked about regretting roasting The Rock in his 2012 promo, which cost him his friendship with The Brahman Bull.

I want to say Dwayne Johnson and I’ll tell you why. Because when I started to do what I thought was good business and try to do what’s best for wrestling.

I wasn’t empathetic to the person I was talking about.

So when you hit me with the last part, when you said for life I made some bad choices in the way I tried to wrangle up a main event, and I was not empathetic.

And that is a great life lesson if we can all just have a second. And man, when we’re all feeling good, we’re all happy, empathy is easy.

But it’s when we’re a little bit short is when empathy is tough. And that storyline cost the friendship of somebody I cared about, which took years to mend.

And I’m grateful for it. And my takeaway was, have more empathy and always try to see every person’s journey before you go do something stupid.

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