John Cena name dropped an AEW star on tonight’s pre-taped edition of WWE SmackDown in an in-ring segment featuring a Bloodline member.
With a variety of WWE stars are already in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ahead of tomorrow’s premium live event, WWE Crown Jewel 2023, this week’s SmackDown was actually taped in advance last week.
In a segment in front of the live crowd, John Cena and Solo Sikoa went back and forth on the mic ahead of their big match in Riyadh.
With John Cena using a raspy voice (after having taken a ‘Samoan Spike the week prior’ from Sikoa, which in real time was earlier in the night) he continued to sell the ‘injury’ from Solo.
However seemingly unimpressed by Solo Sikoa’s skills on the microphone, Cena told him that he could ‘cook him’ within 90 seconds.
Cena would then go on to tell Solo that everyone knows he only has a job in WWE ‘because of your cousin’, and went on to call Solo Sikoa a ‘bargain basement Taz ripoff’.
There was no clear connection for why Cena brought up the AEW name in lieu of another example. Taz has actually responded to being mentioned – click here to read more.
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