For years fans called for John Cena to turn heel, and the turn finally happened when Cena beat Cody Rhodes down at Elimination Chamber last month. Since then Cena has made several appearances on WWE programming in recent weeks and he’s cut promos attacking the fans and Cody Rhodes.
Recently Triple H talked about the big heel turn during an interview with Peter Rosenberg on WWE’s YouTube channel and he claimed that only 3 people knew about Cena’s heel turn before it happened.
“In that moment when John turns, we kept that so quiet that on our side three people on the exec team, from the writing staff, knew. That’s it, me and two others. Nobody else knew. Cena knew, obviously. Cena didn’t even tell his wife. Cena didn’t tell his manager. Cody knew. Cody told no one. Obviously, Rock knew. Travis [Scott] sort of knew, but he was just f*****g going along, just being along for the ride, doing exactly what they told him to do, which is at some point slap Cody. And he was f*****g slapping him whether Cena wanted it or not, because Cena didn’t know about that part.”
“So when we get to the end of the show, I have to tell everybody now as we’re coming into that last minute of Elimination Chamber or something, okay, there’s aftermath on this s***. Everybody lay out. I’m directing traffic. I will call all of this and Marty, here’s how it’s going to go. I rattle off all this s*** to Marty, kind of like shot for shot.”
“But it’s fast, because we’re getting into the end of this match, and Marty’s like, holy s***. I’m like, I will walk you through it, because I’m still not saying on headset, ‘And then John’s going to turn on Cody.’ I’m leaving out details, so when we get there I’m trying to be a fan and just feel it and as it comes in, then technically put it out to the truck of where we need to go, and hopefully be just ahead of it where we can all get it down.”
H/T Inside The Ropes