John Cena Reveals When He Found Out About Firefly Funhouse Match With Bray Wyatt

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John Cena has revealed when he found out about the Firefly Funhouse Match with Bray Wyatt at WWE WrestleMania 36.

At WWE WrestleMania 36, “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt defeated John Cena in a memorable cinematic Firefly Funhouse Match that is still talked about to this day.

The bout was changed after being promoted as a standard match following the start of the pandemic in 2020.

In an interview with Chris Van Vliet on the Insight podcast, John Cena revealed when he found out about the change to the match. He said:

“I remember three days before we filmed the Firefly Fun House match. It was the last TV taping where they came in and they’re like, ‘You’re gonna have a Firefly Fun House match’, and I remember there were three people in one of the conference rooms in NXT with me. I said, ‘What’s a Firefly Fun House match?’”

“They said, ‘I don’t know.’ I said, ‘Great! What can we do’, and that was like, oh, man, again, control the controllable. I wish we had an audience.”

“Performers are like. I wish there could be blood. I wish we could do chair shots to the head. I wish we could swear. I wish I could flip people off. Control the controllable. Use the tools in your tool belt.”

“How do we make something entertaining over a two day period with no audience, and they gave us a stipulation. Everybody else has a regular match and it’s your stip.”

“It’s not a doctor of Thuganomics match or a Hustle, Loyalty, Respect match that’s completely different.”

“You have these definitive characters. You have all this ammunition. You have all this personality and that’s what people really radiate towards. Holy sh*t.”

Cena continued on to discuss some of the elements they were able to use during the Firefly Funhouse Match, saying:

“We can make this a meta look at my life and we can get away with it. What do we have up in the warehouse? We have the fist. We have the blue cage. I can get some NWO stuff. We can make this work.”

“I remember this the only match I’ve ever written from start to finish. My poor wife, I made her print it out and I’m writing and giving her paper. She said, ‘What is this? What does it even mean?’ ‘Just print it. I need it’, and somewhere I still have the original draft in my handwriting of the Firefly Fun House.”

“Bray couldn’t have been better. He knew what was up and he knew the whole thing. I wrote it the night before so I’m trying to text these guys like, I got something weird.”

“I think I might have a picture of the draft still in my phone. I don’t have it with me, but I have it saved as a text that I sent him the night of the match, especially after we saw The Undertaker’s match the night before. Oh, my man, they crushed it, and there was a whole lot more physicality.”

“We got one punch and I texted him how nervous I was, but I wanted to thank him for being so brave and trusting me and I think I couldn’t have done any more.”

“I think we gave it our best shot and hopefully, it works, and it was an effort that I am very proud of.”

Bray Wyatt tragically passed away in August 2023 due to an illness.

Meanwhile, John Cena last wrestled in a loss to Solo Sikoa at WWE Crown Jewel 2023.

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