John Cena Reveals Vince McMahon Reaction To WWE Rapper Character

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John Cena has revealed Vince McMahon’s reaction to the idea for his WWE rapper character back in 2002.

In late 2002, after several months competing on WWE programming without a distinct character of his own, John Cena adopted a hip-hop character that would see him don oversized sports jerseys and chains, whilst also verbally attacking his opponents on the microphone before his matches.

The character proved pivotal for Cena’s WWE career, and propelled him to eventually become WWE’s most prolific champion of all-time – but what was former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon’s initial reaction to the character?

Speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience, Cena recalled Vince “hating” it at first, before eventually changing his tune:

“Hated it and then loved it. I think I’m thinking for somebody, but I think his perspective is, when I hear somebody’s idea for a personality, ‘Man, I want to be this sports agent guy or whatever.’ Oh, I have the idea of what that is in my head, and if their projection of that idea doesn’t match my projection of that idea, I’m like ‘ah f**k, I hate it.’ But that doesn’t mean it can’t work.

“So I think maybe what happened was my perspective of the white hip-hop guy from the mean street of West Newberry and Vince’s perspective of John Cena the rapper, we probably missed. He had an idea and I had an idea. And usually he will craft it to his vision. I got to give him respect for allowing me to run with it.”

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Cena is set to wrestle his last ever match for WWE at Saturday Night’s Main Event in Washington D.C. on December 13, taking on either GUNTHER or LA Knight, who will face off for the opportunity on tonight’s SmackDown.

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