John Cena’s Shocking Revelation About Match With The Rock

John Cena has revealed what the hardest part of getting in the ring for the first time against The Rock in WWE really was.

At WrestleMania 27, The Rock cost John Cena his main event match with The Miz for the WWE Championship. One night later on Raw, Cena called his shot as he challenged The Rock to meet him in a year’s time in the main event of WrestleMania 28.

The Rock did just that, and in his hometown of Miami, he defeated Cena after months of increasingly tense promos between the stars as the lines between entertainment and reality were blurred.

John Cena Knew He Was Losing

Speaking to Vanity Fair, John Cena revealed what the hardest part about his match with The Rock was, and it happened long before he set foot on the WrestleMania stage:

John Cena versus Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson at WrestleMania 28 in Miami. Once in a lifetime. Although we did it again the next year. This was a wonderful journey to get to this. Lots of live moments before this WrestleMania. Sometimes in sports entertainment, we do toe the grey area between entertainment and realism, and I think that’s a lot of the cache that WWE and sports entertainment has.

[…] You would think that, man, going to the actual stage would be the worst part, that was the easy part. I knew I was losing the year before the fight. All of those promos you see, all of those speeches, every single one of them, I knew that I was gonna finish in second place.

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