WWE Star Credits John Cena For Valuable Advice Early In Career
A veteran WWE superstar has revealed how John Cena was very helpful after becoming a big name in the company.
The WWE career of John Cena started in the summer of 2002 and things didn’t go very well until later in the year when the company decided to put his rapper gimmick on television. Over the next few years, Cena’s career took off and he won the first of his 16 WWE World Titles in 2005.
Over the next 12 years, John Cena was the unquestionable top guy in WWE who main evented the most shows, won the most titles, and was pushed the most as the biggest superstar in the company.
When you reach the top, you don’t necessarily have to help the younger wrestlers, but sometimes people are good guys who want to give that helpful advice to make others on the roster better.
TJ Wilson was known as WWE Superstar Tyson Kidd who wrestled for 20 years before suffering a serious injury in 2015. That led to Kidd going behind the scenes in WWE where he is praised as a top Producer in the company.
In an interview with the Counted Out podcast, Kidd talked about how Cena has always been very respectful toward him.
“John Cena gave me advice in FCW. 2008. He had been down a few times. One time, he was coming back from injury in 2007-08 and we had a little singles match on the fly after practice. I’ve had a few little interactions with him in FCW.
Even to this day, he’s very cool and ultra respectful to me. If I was being water tortured, I don’t have anything bad to say about Cena whatsoever. He’s never been anything but respectful to me.”
While they both worked for WWE for many years, Cena and Kidd were also on the E Network reality show called Total Divas. Kidd married his wife Natalya on Total Divas while Cena’s relationship with his ex-fiancee Nikki Bella was featured on the show as well.
John Cena’s Advice Was Right
There was another story from Kidd about how John Cena gave him advice that proved to be very valuable for Tyson’s future.
“He gave me this advice, I didn’t quite get it at the time. I was smaller, and in developmental, you’re just throwing gimmicks at the wall and seeing what sticks. You’re doing wacky promos and seeing what sticks. I was just trying to be the best wrestler that I could. I was doing a lot of chain wrestling, and not a MMA style, but a lot of intricate chain wrestling.
I remember Cena saying, ‘That works for Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell. My advice is, keep it simple, but find out your version of how to make simple entertaining. That’s the way to go.’ I remember thinking, ‘I know what he’s saying, but he’s saying that from his perspective.’ A little bit later, I was like, ‘You know what, that John Cena guy was absolutely right.’”
John Cena will be in action at WWE Elimination Chamber on March 1st in Toronto. The full lineup is below.
* Men’s Elimination Chamber Match: John Cena vs. CM Punk vs. Drew McIntyre vs. Logan Paul vs. Damian Priest vs. Seth “Freakin” Rollins
* Women’s Elimination Chamber Match: Liv Morgan vs. Bianca Belair vs. Alexa Bliss vs. Bayley vs. Naomi vs. Roxanne Perez
* WWE Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton & Trish Stratus vs. Nia Jax & Candice LeRae
* Unsanctioned Match: Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens
* Will Cody Rhodes Accept The Rock’s Offer?
You can watch the WWE Elimination Chamber when it streams live on Saturday, March 1, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, exclusively on Peacock in the United States and Netflix internationally.