John Cena and Cody Rhodes have addressed the sudden disappearance of The Rock and Travis Scott from WWE programming following Elimination Chamber and WrestleMania 41. The two megastars were heavily involved in a storyline that saw Cena turn heel and align with them, but plans changed, leaving fans with questions. WWE had been planning a match involving Scott.
Speaking on Rhodes’ What Do You Wanna Talk About? podcast, Cena revealed that neither he nor Rhodes wasted time dwelling on what could have been. Instead, they focused on adapting to the situation and moving forward with the available talent.
“Hey, you have The Rock and Travis Scott. Awesome, we can plan all this stuff. ‘Hey, you don’t have those two guys anymore,'” Cena said. “Not once did you and I, the whole world has had the conversation of, ‘What would it have been like if?’ The two guys in it, with their d**k in the dirt, not once had a conversation about, ‘Man, what would it have been like if we had those guys?’ No. It was, ‘What do we do now?'”
Cena also responded to criticism that his retirement tour suffered due to their absence. He argued that the pivot allowed for a different, yet still meaningful, story to be told with the roster at hand.
“Let’s walk down hypothetical street. Let’s say everyone who showed up at the Chamber is active until August. That robs us of John Cena, Randy Orton, that robs us of John Cena, CM Punk, John Cena, Ron Cena, John Cena, AJ Styles, John Cena, Logan Paul, me, and you for the last one,” Cena explained. “So yes, the story that might have been might have had star power, and gravity, and who knows what, but what we got by just being like ‘these are the pieces left’. What we got, for me personally, was beautiful.”
Cena officially retired from in-ring competition following his match against Gunther at Saturday Night’s Main Event on December 13.
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