
WWE Champion John Cena has recalled a promo from a recent episode of SmackDown that he believes the fans hated.
During the June 13 episode, Cena opened with a promo, before eventually being interrupted by LA Knight, Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton.
Speaking on The Breakfast Club, Cena noted that he felt that the fans “f**king hated” this promo, even though he believed it was well constructed and was dropping clues and references for the audience.
He explained:
“I had a pretty good failure two weeks ago, I think. I was out in front of a live audience, not Grand Rapids, where were we — Lexington, Kentucky. I’d opened the show. I had five minutes to speak before three other performers came out and that’s a real hard spot to be in because I can’t do any action yet, you kind of got to tell people what my purpose is and my character is not someone to rile up the audience, it’s somebody against the audience.
“I took the route of, okay, evil mastermind, I’d like to explain my plan and I did for five minutes. I planned this, all this s**t, I knew this would happen so I made this move, I knew this would happen. I thought it was well constructed, I thought it was dropping easter eggs for fans.
“They f**king hated it. The great thing is, they loved when the next three guys came out, so the bit itself worked. But man, it was crickets. I know the noise. I really cannot wait for this to be over, I really thought this was going to work.’”
John Cena is slated to defend his WWE Championship against CM Punk at Night of Champions in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday night.
CM Punk has now addressed his controversial Saudi Arabia tweet from 2020, apologising to fans.
Transcription via Fightful.
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