During Chris Jericho’s podcast with John Cena on Monday Cena revealed that he was close to turning heel during his feud with The Rock. He mentioned that he recorded a new entrance song and was looking to get new ring gear.
Cena reportedly spent $5,000 on having new gear made but then canceled the order before it was made. Cena told the seamstress he ordered from, Sue Kotulski, to use the money for new outfits for WWE developmental talents instead of giving him a refund.
Cena came to developmental in Tampa at that time and told the same story and some in developmental unofficially created what they dubbed The Cena Scholarship. Each month, the campaign saw WWE developmental coaches vote on who the most outstanding talents of the month were. That talent would then get a $500 credit towards having new gear made by Kotulski.
[…] wanted John Cena to turn heel, as Cena said on Chris Jericho’s podcast in 2015 that he even had new ring gear made up for a potential heel turn. Stephanie McMahon also recently revealed that she pushed for a John Cena heel turn at one […]