Appearances from John Cena on WWE programming are few and far between nowadays, but Cena was the face of the company for quite some time. Throughout the course of his run at the top John Cena worked with some of the biggest names in the business and it sounds like he worked closely with Arn Anderson.
During a recent episode of his ARN podcast the Hall of Famer recalled Vince McMahon deciding that John Cena would be the top guy, and he also revealed that he was given the job of preparing Cena for the role.
“When he decided on John he just said to me one day, ‘Okay Arn, I am giving Cena to you, teach him how to work, teach him the business,’ just like that. From that point on I guess he told whoever assigned the matches, ‘Give Cena to Arn,’ and I started working with him and worked with him the entire time that he was being groomed and what he became.”
Arn Anderson went on to say that he was given a similar role in WCW while working with Goldberg, but some people weren’t on board with losing to Goldberg in short squash matches.
“Some guys already started to balk at it and I had to do some politicking with these guys and let them know it’s okay. Normally you wouldn’t get beat in that amount of time but hey, it’s going to be everybody guys so don’t be the guy that bucks up and loses their job cos everybody is going to put the guy over and in record time.”
H/T Wrestling Inc.
