Kevin Federline Reflects On His Stint With WWE, Speaks About Pinning John Cena On Raw When Cena Was WWE Champion

A look back at the stint from Federline’s point-of-view.

In late 2006, Kevin Federline, who is a dancer, actor, and the ex-husband of Britney Spears, ventured into WWE. Federline looked back on the stint he had with the company as he guest appeared on Talk Is Jericho.

He expressed how much fun he had and showed respect to the wrestling business. Federline said he was only supposed to appear for WWE once, and that was in October 2006 in Los Angeles, California. Federline aligned with Melina and Johnny TV (Johnny Nitro) and ended up getting into a physical altercation with John Cena.

He shared that after Vince McMahon saw the reaction that he and Cena got, it was decided that Federline would be more involved.

“Man, I watched WWE when I was a kid. By the time I hit later teenage years, I started focusing more on dance and my own stuff, you know? But, when we got the call to go out there in Staples Center, or back when it was the Staples Center… Do it with (John) Cena. Just the whole thing was just like, I was skeptical, but once I got there, once I got in that room, and they hand you, ‘This is what you gotta do,’ and you’re literally going out there improving a whole f*cking speech to the crowd. I loved it. I loved it. I loved how they hated me. You eat it up, because at the end of the day, it was all different. When you’re leaving that arena, you got thousands of people out there that actually love you. They love to hate you in that ring but they actually love that you are the villain in this… The guys, the group of people, everything about that, you guys, so much credit goes to you guys, the work ethic of you guys is like a football player. People don’t realize how strenuous it is of what you do. I only got a couple of days of training out there in Venice and I was like — that was it for me. I was just like, ‘This is absolutely mind-blowing.’ Mind-blowing what you guys do. I mean, it’s brutal on your body. It’s crazy.

My stint with WWE was really only supposed to be that night at Staples. Once they saw the reaction, and once they saw just the back and forth between me and Cena, that was it. Vince (McMahon) called us in and was like, ‘Hey, I wanna do more of this. Are you guys down? Let’s do more of this’ and I’m like, ‘Oh, getting thrown on my neck every night? What are we talking here?’ Weight-wise, back then, it was night and day. I was a stick compared to him, and most of you guys… I had to do it. I had to do it. That’s one of those moments that, even my kids now, still talk about it. They’ll go back and sometimes they’ll see clips of it. They’ll see clips of this and that and it’s something that my family shares. It’s an awesome one to share and I have so many good memories with all of you guys. Everybody in that circuit was amazing.”

Federline would appear at the 2006 Cyber Sunday pay-per-view. He got involved in the main event and cost John Cena a World Heavyweight Title match.

On the first Monday Night Raw of 2007, Federline, with an assist from the late Edward Smith Fatu a.k.a. Umaga, scored a pinfall victory over Cena while he was WWE Champion.

“Yeah, yeah, with a little bit of help,” Federline said when his win over John Cena was brought up. “I went out there, once again, looking like I wasn’t ready for what was coming. It was so much fun. I did beat Cena. He just retired too, right?”

That win over Cena was Federline’s only pro wrestling match. Later that month, Cena went on to defeat Umaga to retain the WWE Title in a Last Man Standing match at the Royal Rumble.

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