What John Cena Did Immediately After Winning The Undisputed WWE Title At WrestleMania 41 Revealed

John Cena is a 17-time world champion, with Cena defeating Cody Rhodes to lift the Undisputed WWE Title at WrestleMania 41 night two.

Whilst the Cena we see on-screen is in the midst of a vicious heel run, backstage it seems the leader of the Cenation is still a humble professional, with Joe Hendry revealing to Chris Van Vliet on Insight what Cena did after winning the title at Mania:



“So I’m walking back from there [a room backstage where Hendry was hidden], and at the same moment the match has just finished, John is walking back with his WWE Championship. He’s literally just become the greatest of all time. It’s now a fact he’s the greatest of all time. He’s walking back, and this is how awesome John is. Sees me, once he came out of Gorilla, immediately walks over to me,” said Hendry.

Hendry continued, noting how he had spoken with Cena before:


“We’d had conversations. He gave me advice at the Rumble, and as he said on Pat McAfee, I did my very best to implement that advice. He said that he feels I’m going to be a major player in this industry. Praise doesn’t come higher. So he came up to me, and there’s two camera crews. They’re filming this interaction. I’m like, I can’t believe the timing that this is happening. He’s just won the championship. I say, ‘John, congrats.’ He didn’t even want to talk about the fact that he just became the greatest. He wanted to give me advice, that’s who John is, right? He just said to me, ‘I told you exactly what you needed to do at the Rumble. You’ve taken it on board. You’ve done it. You had a good performance at the Rumble. You were brilliant tonight.’ Then John walks off. I hope they release this footage one day, I turned to the camera and I go, can a day get any better than this? AJ Styles walks into shot and he says, ‘If you’d have told me that the TNA World Champion would walk out at WrestleMania, I wouldn’t have believed it. Congrats, man. It’s nuts.’

“I can’t tell you how fortunate I am to be living the life that I am. I’ve almost got no words for it. The gratitude that I feel on a daily basis for this journey, I have to say I really have to take a moment to talk about how great TNA and WWE have been, because at any point they could have gone, ‘nah’. TNA and WWE have been so good to me to allow me to have these moments, because this has huge benefit for me. We could come up with a million reasons why either TNA or WWE would say, not this time, but they have been unbelievable with letting me have these moments. I just feel like I really do feel huge gratitude to both companies in the way that they’ve worked together to create cool moments for me and the fans, and just those moment, those moments that I’ve had, like with Triple H and getting that feedback and the words of advice that he gives, like, that’s I know how busy he is and how important those moments are. I’m very grateful for it,” stated Hendry.

Hendry’s TNA contract is set to expire in 2025, with it looking likely that he will make the jump to WWE should he depart TNA.

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