John Cena has explained the importance of his super Cena run.
At the height of his WWE run, The Cenation leader was defeating opponents left and right. Despite not having a strong showing through the match John would end up winning all the major contests. A lot of the hardcore fans detested the fact that the end goal for any talents the company pushed at the time was to put over the 16-time world champion. Most of them got lost in the shuffle afterward as the creative didn\'t really have any solid direction for them.
The wrestling veteran talked about this period of his career in a new interview with Collider while promoting his upcoming project What Drives You.
Being a 16-time world champion means Cena also lost the world title 16 times and he expressed the importance of his losses in elevating other talents and surprising fans. When asked which losses meant the most to him as a storyteller, John picked three from different periods of his career:
Some of the ones that come to mind are certainly The Rock in Miami (at WrestleMania 28) was a fantastic loss; Kevin Owens’ debut (at Elimination Chamber 2015) was another great one that I thought was a really fun one; Rob Van Dam at Hammerstein Ballroom (at ECW One Night Stand in 2006). Anytime you can surprise people.
Sometimes You Got To Win A Lot: John Cena
Whenever Cena defied the odds and picked up another big victory, hardcore fans took to social media to vent their frustrations. The phrase \'Cena Wins LOL\' became a synonym to everything the fans hated about his run.
During the interview, the Peacemaker star admitted that this was one of the \'biggest hang-ups\' of his career. Though John Cena explained that his wins were important because he was in it for the \'long haul\' and it made his losses that much more impactful:
The way you make those losses impactful is sometimes you’ve got to win, and sometimes you’ve got to win a lot. Any time you can pass energy on to somebody, that’s kind of the life cycle of the business.
You come in an unknown and, hopefully, you get the flywheel spinning, you create all this energy on your way out, you pay it forward, you pass it off.
John Cena kicked off his retirement tour by announcing his Royal Rumble entry at Raw\'s Netflix premiere. You can check out the reported WrestleMania 41 plans for the wrestling veteran here.
