Triple H Talked To Travis Scott Before John Cena To Discuss Cena’s Heel Turn

John Cena shocked the world at WWE Elimination Chamber when he turned heel, aligning with The Rock. The turn came together after The Rock asked Cody Rhodes to sell his soul to him, and Rhodes turned down the offer.

On WWE Unreal, Triple H detailed how the heel turn came together and who was in on things.

“There are five that I talk to with a move this big. There’s Rock. Obviously, It’s Cody. Cena. Travis Scott, who we want to help build this idea around, and then WWE President Nick Khan. My first call is to Nick. I run the idea by him. Nick basically says, ‘Love all of it.’ My next reach out at that point is to Rock. I hit him with, ‘What if? What if, hear me out on this.’ He just listened and through the conversation would go, ‘Mmhmmm. Mmhmmm.’ I wasn’t sure if he was giving me the ‘Mmhmmm, just get to the end so I can tell you how much I hate this’ or…I got to the end and he was like, ‘Wow, I gotta tell you, I think that’s genius.’ He immediately started riffing thoughts and ideas. We spent another 30 minutes on the phone talking about this and the more we talked about it, the more we were both getting excited and into it. My next conversation was with Travis Scott. I make sure Travis is comfortable with the creative. He loved it and is like, ‘Let’s do this.’ Somewhere in there, Cody hits me back, I get with Cody and when I hit him with it he’s like, ‘Holy shit, I didn’t think that’s what you were going to say. That’s really cool.’

Then, I get with John. John is the best with, ‘Before you say it, if this is what you believe in. I’m in.’ I’m like, ‘John, let’s take the bullshit hat off. This is not the head of creative talking with you and you the performer. I’m asking John Cena the human being. Give me your gut.’ This impacts John Cena the human being, his movies, his PR schedule, everything. ‘Give me your gut. You like it or you don’t.’ He said, ‘I like it a lot, actually.’ I hang up the phone and within a minute or a minute and a half, I got three different texts from him with thoughts and ideas. ‘Alright, he’s engaged.'”

Scott was in the ring with Cena and Rock when the heel turn went down, helping both men beatdown Rhodes.

He appeared at WrestleMania 41, helping Cena defeat Rhodes to win the Undisputed WWE Championship, but has not been back on WWE TV.

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