John Cena admits that his promo on the June 13th episode of SmackDown didn’t land as intended.
In a new interview with “The Breakfast Club,” Cena reflected on the segment — which featured LA Knight, Cody Rhodes, and Randy Orton — and called it his most recent misstep. He acknowledged that the promo didn’t work the way he hoped and opened up about why it missed the mark.
“I had a pretty good failure two weeks ago, I think. I was out in front of a live audience, not Grand Rapids, where were we — Lexington, Kentucky. I’d opened the show. I had five minutes to speak before three other performers came out and that’s a real hard spot to be in because I can’t do any action yet, you kind of got to tell people what my purpose is and my character is not someone to rile up the audience, it’s somebody against the audience.”
He continued, “I took the route of, okay, evil mastermind, I’d like to explain my plan and I did for five minutes. I planned this, all this sh*t, I knew this would happen so I made this move, I knew this would happen. I thought it was well constructed, I thought it was dropping easter eggs for fans. They fucking hated it. The great thing is, they loved when the next three guys came out, so the bit itself worked. But man, it was crickets. I know the noise. I really cannot wait for this to be over, I really thought this was going to work.’”
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