During an interview with Sportskeeda WrestleBinge, WWE legend and 17-time World Champion John Cena's father, John Cena Sr., discussed various topics, including his confusion over the booking of the match between his son and Brock Lesnar at WrestlePalooza.
This is what John Cena Sr. said, “I don’t understand it. Not because he’s my son, but I came up with a couple of scenarios. That was a squash match—when Heyman came out and said ‘the last real ass-kicker,’ that’s when I knew Cena was done. It’s over. It’s going to be the same type of thing as when he gave Cena fifteen F5s. I sat down and thought it shouldn’t go down that way. Brock doesn’t need that rub at all. There were many ways it could have been better than the way I saw it go down. In this business, you want to make fans happy sometimes.”
On how it doesn’t make sense to have Cena lose in that way on his retirement tour:
“When I saw those kids crying, that’s not how you want to run business. Why would you take the man on a tour who’s leaving and beat him? It makes no sense to me at all. I don’t even call that a match—it was a squash. That’s all it was. Eight minutes! That could have been so much better, with so much more thrill and spill.”
On not agreeing with using Cena to put Lesnar over in that way:
“Apparently whoever wrote it intended to show Brock as the Beast—now the Beast has decimated the GOAT and the story is to see who the Beast’s next victim will be. That was the intent, and it was a poor way to put it over.”
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(H/T to RingSideNews.com for transcribing the above quotes)
