John Cena told AJ Lee and former Divas Champion ‘never do that again’ for going against WWE instructions
Former WWE star Kaitlyn revealed a crucial pay-per-view match with AJ Lee ran longer than scheduled, and John Cena warned them to never do it again.
In an interview with Rewind Recap Relive, Kaitlyn disclosed that her Divas Title match against AJ Lee at Payback 2013 went to overtime despite the referee’s repeated instructions to wrap it up. Their bout cut into John Cena’s main event which followed, and he was not pleased.
“What’s funny about that match is we went over on our time and you never do that on a pay-per-view. They told us to go home. We probably still had two minutes left, maybe two and a half minutes left of like to really tell the story, and so the ref tells us like, ‘you need to take it home, take it home, take it home.’ We were used to getting our time cut because people’s matches ran over, you know? So there’s usually always the divas that they cut.”
“The ref tells us and AJ’s like, ‘no,’ and so we were both down selling and she was like, ‘let’s keep going.’ I was like, ‘okay.’ The crowd was insane. I was crying, and when we got back into Gorilla, Cena was back there, and because Cena’s match was still up. So we cut into Cena’s match, and he was like, ‘never do that again.’ But he was like, ‘great match.’”
Lee won the Payback bout, kicking off what would become her longest title reign at 295 days.
Meanwhile, Cena faced Ryback in a Three Stages of Hell match for the WWE Championship. The three rounds featured a Lumberjack match, tables match and ambulance match.
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