Why John Cena Addresses WWE Cameraman On Way To Ring
John Cena has shed some light on why he chooses WWE’s cameraman and others in the company.
When John Cena makes his entrance as a WWE superstar, he will run around the entrance area to salute the fans, then he holds up a towel that used to say “Never Give Up,” and this year it says “The Last Time Is Now” for his final year in the company.
Cena also usually speaks into the camera, where he talks to “Stew” the camera guy. That usually leads Cena to say that you know what time it is, then he salutes the camera and says, “It’s time go to go to work.” That is followed by Cena doing a run down to the ring with the camera following behind him.
That entrance has become so iconic that WWE even released a 27-minute video on YouTube showing all the times that Cena acknowledged Stew the camera guy. It’s worth noting WWE’s own YouTube channel calls him Stew, spelled in that way, so that’s what we’ll go with too. His real name is Steve Stone, and he’s worked for WWE for over 25 years, so he was there at the start of Cena’s long run in the company.
During an interview on the Pat McAfee Show, John Cena was asked about his memorable entrances involving Stew the camera guy.
“So first of all, again, you hear me say this a lot. Nobody does it alone. Honestly, all these memorable moments that we have, I have, there’s a partner attached, and more partners attached. I’m talking about like Daggy catering, who feeds us. All the folks behind the scenes.
I was told not to break the fourth wall, not to talk to the camera. So I said, ‘F**k it, I’ll talk to the cameraman.’ I can look right over the lens and Stew’s there.”
John Cena Is Grateful For WWE’s Entire Crew
As he continued, John Cena continued to show respect to the rest of the WWE crew that may not get the headlines like the people who step into the ring, but they play important roles in the company.
“We got a whole crew of camera folks and people that make this live event look the way it does, a whole TV truck of folks that shoot the cuts and make our stuff a lot better than it is. My conversation with Stew, who’s an individual I care deeply for, is also a conversation with what I call the truck. Everybody in that room over there making sure we all look good.
Every time I say, ‘Let’s go to work,’ those men and women have already been hard at work making the show awesome before the first bump is even taken.
So Stew is kind of a conduit to my conversation, not only to the audience out there, because I’m stealing a way to break the fourth wall, but it’s also me talking to folks that I care about who never, ever, ever get to be in the center of a ring and have the audience go ‘fantastic,’ but without them, we are worthless.”
The four-match card at Saturday Night’s Main Event on December 13th looks like this:
- John Cena vs. Gunther in Cena’s final WWE match
- Sol Ruca vs. Bayley
- WWE World Tag Team Champions AJ Styles & Dragon Lee vs. Je’Von Evans & Leon Slater in a non-title match
- WWE Champion Cody Rhodes vs. NXT Champion Oba Femi in a non-title match
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