Paul London reflected on his early career and his experiences with John Cena during his recent interview on Insight With Chris Van Vliet. The former WWE Cruiserweight Champion praised Cena for his generosity during a match they had on Velocity before London was officially signed.
“John’s amazing, by the way,” London said. “I think he’s the Mick Jagger of pro wrestling, and he was just super cool… John was amazing, and the funny thing with John is, so we went out to the ring, and he said, ‘What do you want to do?’ We start talking. I’m like, ‘I do this slingshot…’ Because he’s asking me. I was always taught when the veteran, or who the match is engineered for, when they’re asking you questions, you just shut up… And we hit it and it worked in the match, so just super generous. I didn’t find out until later at OVW, when John came to work out with us, he’s like, ‘Why are you here?’ He was like ‘They got mad at me for giving you what I did.'”
London also opened up about a negative experience he had early in his training with British wrestling legend “Exotic” Adrian Street. London claimed that Street took his money without teaching him anything.
“The first trainer I ever met of name would have been “Exotic” Adrian Street, didn’t teach me a damn thing and ripped me off,” London said. “I was 16, and basically stole our money and used it on eye surgery and then tried to sell us paintings of naked Native Americans with wolves in front of their dicks and stuff. It was ridiculous.”
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