‘It Almost Got Me Fired’: John Cena Names Biggest Failure Of His WWE Career

17-time WWE world champion John Cena has named what he considers to be the biggest failure of his career.

With John Cena set to hang up his jorts for good later this month, many fans and wrestlers alike have been reflecting on the decorated star’s eventful career.

Speaking with Bill Simmons of The Ringer, John Cena recalled his early WWE main roster days, noting that he sees not capitalizing on his “Ruthless Aggression” character as his biggest failure.

When asked what was his biggest failure, John Cena stated:

“Blowing and completely disintegrating ruthless aggression, it almost got me fired.

“So here I am, a young whippersnapper, debuting in Chicago because the Undertaker is sick. I get to challenge Kurt Angle to a match on SmackDown in front of a sold out house at the formerly known as the Rosemont Horizon.

“The Olympic gold medalist says, ‘What makes you think you can stand out here with anybody else? What do you have that I don’t?’ ‘Ruthless aggression,’ I slap him in the face, that’s aggressive. Then the match we went on to have was pretty ruthless.

“But then he won but with a roll-up pinfall, then the aggressive, ruthless young kid goes ‘Man, you only got me by that much’. The next thing they did was a backstage taping with the Undertaker, where the ruthless, aggressive kid is so starry-eyed that the Undertaker is giving him advice, shakes the Undertaker’s hand, that is neither ruthless nor aggressive.

“This is what I mean by being ready for opportunity, that gimmick, those two words, that personality, I could either lean into being aggressive and ruthless – we all have an idea in our head of what is ruthless and what is aggression – or I could do a 180 and be passive aggressive.

“I was neither, and I didn’t have the technical ability of my peers. They gave me this beautiful moment on a silver platter, no one told me it was an attitude, but I didn’t take advantage of it.”

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John Cena’s final match will take place at the December 13 Saturday Night’s Main Event special, which will emanate from the Capital One Arena in Washington DC.

Cena has addressed the decision to not hold his final match in Boston, click here to read more.

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