WrestleMania is WWE’s biggest show of the year and every wrestler on the roster hopes to land a spot on the card. At WrestleMania 35, Elias was featured in a segment with the one and only John Cena, but he recently explained during an interview with For The Love of Wrestling that originally he and Cena were supposed to face off in a match.
“That was actually originally supposed to be a match, which I was really excited about. But due to some things and movies and whatever going on it turned into this ‘Doctor of Thuganomics’ deal. Which is cool. To have his original character come out there, New York, 80,000 people whatever it was … To be able to say you did WrestleMania with John Cena, it’s really cool man.”
“I had found out maybe months before … I think I’d have to go back and watch the TV but I’m thinking I might have even planted seeds in my promos leading up to WrestleMania … I know that there was also talks of it the year before but then it actually ended up being John and The Undertaker … As far as like what was going on in the inner workings of the creative mind of it all, not sure what the plan was there.”
Elias was released from WWE back in September of 2023, but he has since returned to the world of wrestling using the name Elijah.
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