John Cena recalls a recent promo.
The June 13 edition of WWE SmackDown was opened by a four way promo segment between John Cena, LA Knight, Cody Rhodes, and Randy Orton. Cena got a few mintues to himself before being interrupted by the other individuals, allowing him to talk about how his heel run was planned out step-by-step.
In a recent interview with The Breakfast Club, Cena cited the promo as his most recent failure, saying that the fans hated something that he thought was clever and well constructed.
“I had a pretty good failure two weeks ago, I think. I was out in front of a live audience, not Grand Rapids, where were we — Lexington, Kentucky. I’d opened the show. I had five minutes to speak before three other performers came out and that’s a real hard spot to be in because I can’t do any action yet, you kind of got to tell people what my purpose is and my character is not someone to rile up the audience, it’s somebody against the audience. I took the route of, okay, evil mastermind, I’d like to explain my plan and I did for five minutes. I planned this, all this shit, I knew this would happen so I made this move, I knew this would happen. I thought it was well constructed, I thought it was dropping easter eggs for fans. They fucking hated it. The great thing is, they loved when the next three guys came out, so the bit itself worked. But man, it was crickets. I know the noise. I really cannot wait for this to be over, I really thought this was going to work.’”
Cena is set to appear on Friday's edition of SmackDown, just one day before WWE Night Of Champions.
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