Kaitlyn has revealed that she and AJ Lee deliberately ignored instructions to finish their Divas Championship match early at Payback 2013, cutting into John Cena’s main event and earning a stern word from him backstage.
Speaking to Rewind Recap Relive, Kaitlyn described the moment the referee began urging them to wrap up while the match was still going.
What’s funny about that match is we went over on our time and you never do that on a pay-per-view. They told us to go home. We probably still had two minutes left, maybe two and a half minutes left of like to really tell the story, and so the ref tells us like, ‘you need to take it home, take it home, take it home.’ We were used to getting our time cut because people’s matches ran over, you know? So there’s usually always the divas that they cut.
Lee refused to end the match when the signal came, and Kaitlyn followed her lead.
The ref tells us and AJ’s like, ‘no,’ and so we were both down selling and she was like, ‘let’s keep going.’ I was like, ‘okay.’ The crowd was insane. I was crying, and when we got back into Gorilla, Cena was back there, and because Cena’s match was still up. So we cut into Cena’s match, and he was like, ‘never do that again.’ But he was like, ‘great match.'
Lee won the bout, beginning what would become her 295-day Divas Championship reign, the longest of her career. Cena followed them with a Three Stages of Hell match against Ryback for the WWE Championship, which featured a Lumberjack match, a tables match, and an ambulance match.
