For years John Cena was the face of the WWE and throughout his run at the top many people called for a Cena heel turn that simply never happened. John Cena’s character on WWE programming was the ultimate good guy who always reminded fans that they should never give up.
During a recent episode of Something To Wrestle, WWE Hall of Famer JBL recalled John Cena’s time at the top, and he explained why he thinks Vince McMahon’s decision to not turn Cena heel was the right call.
“Those guys that were in that era, they owe Cena a lot, like their cars, their homes, their retirement [laughs] and all kinds of shit. Just like we owed Steve [Austin] in the Attitude Era, and all those guys that were on top. Cena sold so much merch.
I was in so many creative meetings, the commentators used to be in the creative meetings on the day of, not the original creative meetings, and I’d see so many guys, you could see a new writer come in who’s very ambitious, it’s not gonna be a few weeks before he pitches the idea of turning Cena heel [laughs], every single one of them would come up with it.
Vince [McMahon] was like, ‘No, he sells all our merchandise. What are we gonna do?’ It was the right decision. In hindsight, it was 100% the right decision not to turn Cena heel.”
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