John Cena has been in the professional wrestling business for a long time, and he’s managed to win a world title in WWE a total of 16 times.
Even though Cena has won many titles, he’s also had to lose them as well, and throughout his career he dropped the belt to some interesting names. But one name Cena apparently refused to do the job for was Jake Hager.
During a recent appearance on Talk Is Jericho, Jake Hager talked about his Money in the Bank cash in, and he mentioned that Cena refused to drop the belt to him.
“I had a little inclination, but I had no idea what was going to happen,” Hager admitted. “The night before, I teased it on RAW where I would almost hit Cena with the briefcase. I snuck up on him and then we had one of his brilliant promo segments. Later come find out he refused to do the job for me for the world championship, but we won’t talk about that. That was in Phoenix. I get a call that night saying, ‘hey come to Vegas.’ Catalina and I were already planning on coming there to kind of celebrate in Vegas and whatnot. We get to the building.”
“Of course, I get there 30 minutes earlier than I’m supposed to, so I’m waiting out in the hallway. And then I see Johnny (John Lauranitis) go in the office. Here you come [and] Edge comes, and I’m like, ‘okay, this is my turn. I’ll come in right behind you guys,’ and then the door shuts. It was about five minutes out there and who knows, you guys were probably just all in there laughing and joking like, ‘hey, this rookie’s out here sweating his ass off,’ and then I go in there. And honestly Chris, this is why I always look to you as someone I could trust, someone that actually cared is because when we sat in there, and it was laid out what was going to happen, you turn to me and very stoically, you told me, ‘you better not f–k this up.’ And you were dead serious, and you were very sincere with it.”
Obviously things worked out for Jake Hager as he cashed in on Chris Jericho to become the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion.
Hager went on to say that his title run was a “learning curve” and even though it was short he’s happy to have his name on the same list as some of the greats.
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