John Cena appeared on today’s episode of WWE’s The Bump to discuss a wide range of topics ahead of his tag team match at Saturday’s WWE Fastlane. Here are the highlights:
On what he wants to accomplish in this run:
“So selfishly, I said I wanted to make sure it’s not time to go yet. And I confidently believe that I’m not done. But I do believe that we’re all fighting that ticking clock and mine has less seconds than most other people in the locker room, from maybe oh two or even before zero to maybe Christmas. Even some are seen like I just want to say thank you. Thank you to the audience. Like a lot of times, we just go away and we don’t get a chance to say a proper thing like, Hey, thanks for allowing me to do this for so long. I pull no punches. I don’t exist without the audience. And I’m just really grateful for every single second. I’m really grateful. That’s why I can’t talk trash about it.”
On reuniting with The Rock backstage at SmackDown:
“Thank you for the question. I want to adjust it a little bit. What was it like to see a friend that I haven’t seen in a long time and in between the times we’ve spent with each other, I’ve openly kind of come to a realization that the first foray into us competing against each other was probably was a professional mistake on my part. And I’ve been very apologetic and open with my apology that the way I conducted business was in the realm of trying to do good business and we did great business. And it was really nice to see a friend. He was actually generous with his time. We could actually converse for a little bit and that’s the first time we’d seen each other since publicly apologizing for that. And I just wanted to make sure you heard it from me face to face as well. And it was really nice to see a friend. Well, respect is something that’s one of my core values. It’s on every hat, it’s on every shirt. It’s on every towel. But I believe respect is earned. And I think mutual respect for your peers, it needs to be reciprocal. You’ve got to have a certain candor and a certain respect to gain that respect. I always say it’s a boomerang. What you throw out there is going to come back at you.”
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