WWE promised we would hear from John Cena on this week’s episode of Monday Night Raw in Phoenix, just days after he was defeated in the main event of the Money in the Bank premium live event in Inglewood because R-Truth made an unexpected return to the company and laid him out.
Whatever would he have to say?
The “last real champion” let the moment breathe before speaking, allowing for the dueling chants. When he fired away, he went right for the throat, calling the fans out for making their voices heard and bringing back a sideshow comedian whose greatest achievement is pretending to be Cena.
He called the fans keyboard warriors and ignorant armchair activists with no real power to change anything.
“R-Truth is a gimmick that you will spit out and a year from now not care anything about.”
He was pissed that this guy would try to hijack his retirement tour. There are only 19 dates remaining on said tour, so if the fans actually want to accomplish something they should use their voice to send him competition instead of the class clown.
He’s already beaten the best of who they’ve sent him.
Naturally, that brought out one of his greatest rivals, a man he made history with multiple times, who gave him some of his best matches — CM Punk. It was just strange to see them meeting under these conditions.
Heel John Cena vs. Babyface CM Punk.
Weird!
Punk called attention to this immediately, though he didn’t exactly use those terms. Cena is the bad guy shitting on the people, and Punk is the good guy here to defend them. He put over Cody Rhodes, made mention of Cena kissing The Rock’s ass, and eventually got around to saying the champion knows what he’s doing is wrong and the best thing Punk can do is take that title off his shoulder.
He’ll become a monster to stop the monster Cena has become.
He left it up to Cena to decide what date he’ll use to put the title on the line against Punk, but the “Voice of the Voiceless” wanted it tonight.
Cena instantly agreed to the match.
But not tonight.
Cena made storyline out of Punk not wanting to go to Saudi Arabia by telling him he can have the title shot but he has to go with him all the way to Riyadh for Night of Champions to do it. Punk seemed to agree right away and they made like we’ll have to wait for it to go official.
The segment closed with Seth Rollins walking out with the Money in the Bank contract to remind us all he will be looming large over literally everything for the foreseeable future.
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