When John Cena was an active in-ring competitor for WWE he main evented a number of shows including the Payback premium live event in 2013. Cena defended the WWE Championship against Ryback in the main event, and it sounds like one match on the card went longer than expected.
During a recent appearance on Rewind Recap Relive, Kaitlyn recalled her Divas Championship match with AJ Lee at the 2013 Payback PLE, and she revealed that John Cena told them to “never do that again” after they went over their scheduled time for the match.
“What’s funny about that match is we went over on our time and you never do that on a pay-per-view. They told us to go home. We probably still had two minutes left, maybe two and a half minutes left of like to really tell the story, and so the ref tells us like, ‘you need to take it home, take it home, take it home.’ We were used to getting our time cut because people’s matches ran over, you know? So there’s usually always the divas that they cut.”
“The ref tells us and AJ’s like, ‘no,’ and so we were both down selling and she was like, ‘let’s keep going.’ I was like, ‘okay.’ The crowd was insane. I was crying, and when we got back into Gorilla, Cena was back there, and because Cena’s match was still up. So we cut into Cena’s match, and he was like, ‘never do that again.’ But he was like, ‘great match.’”