John Cena: Brock Lesnar’s return changed WWE SummerSlam 2021 title plans
John Cena says he was originally planned to win his 17th World Championship at WWE SummerSlam 2021.
During an appearance on the No Contest Wrestling podcast, Cena said that plans for his match against Roman Reigns only changed after WWE reached a deal for Brock Lesnar to return to the company.
“That night was supposed to go very different.”
“In the last moment, we had a surprise guest booked and he came out after the match was over. They didn’t secure Brock until 5:00 PM that day.”
After Reigns defeated Cena on the show, Lesnar came out to confront Reigns. According to Cena, the original plan had him winning the title, but the match would later be restarted, with Reigns ultimately regaining the championship.
“I was going to win 17. We were going to have someone come out and restart the match and Roman was going to take it back.”
“The way we put together the match was we were going to give him a hell of a match, everything out the door, no rules, no nothing, like tons of finishers, all this stuff because I was going to win and then Roman was going to take it back.”
Cena’s appearance on The No Contest Wrestling podcast is available below. The video is cued to his comments about WWE SummerSlam 2021.
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