John Cena’s Heel Turn Most Powerful Moment Triple Has Seen In WWE

John Cena has shocked the world.

In a moment that will stand alongside Hulk Hogan turning heel at Bash at the Beach 1996 and Stone Cold Steve Austin aligning with Vince McMahon at WrestleMania X-Seven, John Cena has sold his soul to The Rock.

In Toronto, Cena battled through the Elimination Chamber match to win before being joined in the ring by Cody Rhodes. Cena will now face Rhodes at WrestleMania as he chases that elusive 17th World Championship.

However, the pair was quickly joined by The Rock and hip-hop megastar Travis Scott. Rhodes told Rock that his soul no longer because to him because it belongs to the people, before telling the WWE Legend to “go f*ck himself.”

In one of the most genuinely shocking moments in WWE history, John Cena embraced Rhodes one more time when The Rock gave his old rival the signal to finish it off. Cena then hit Rhodes below the belt and used brass knuckles to take out Rhodes. As in his final year, Cena finally turned heel.

Triple H Reflects On John Cena’s Heel Turn

Speaking at the Elimination Chamber post-show event, Triple H discussed the impact of Cena’s heel turn, describing it as one of the most powerful moments he’s ever seen.

“A lot of surprises tonight: Jade Cargill, Randy Orton, incredible matches, incredible moments, and then John Cena drops a nuke.

I’ve been fortunate to be around a lot of the biggest things in this business in the last, say, 30 years, but I’m not sure I’ve ever felt a more powerful moment. The entirety of John Cena’s career, being the one guy you never really saw — in the beginning of his career or whatever — but as you move forward from that, when he really became John Cena, and the champion, you just didn’t see this moment coming.

When you get to a place in your career when you know undoubtedly, you have months left on your career and your dream and the thing that launched you to the rest of the world, to movie stardom, to everything else that he has in his life, it puts you in a different perspective and it puts you in a place that it’s now or never.

You can ride that out, and you can rest on the things that you have done, and you couldn’t really blame John for doing that.”

Triple H went on to give Cena credit for pushing himself into something new when he could have easily leaned into a nostalgia run to take him into retirement.

“Somebody like him can double down and say ‘Screw it, I want to be challenged right to the last moment. I want to go out on my shield. I want to give this everything I have. I want to challenge myself. I want to do something different. I want to be afraid of it, and I want to go out there and do it all,’ and that’s the beauty of John Cena.”

Elsewhere, at Elimination Chamber, Jade Cargill returned to attack Naomi before Bianca Belair won the women’s Elimination Chamber Match.

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