Sami Zayn reveals John Cena’s text after WWE Championship win: ‘You did it your way’
Sami Zayn opened up about the overwhelming wave of support and John Cena’s message in particular after his WWE Title win.
Zayn talked about the outpour of love and support after winning the WWE Championship with Don La Greca and Peter Rosenberg on ESPN New York. He noticed many who reached out used terms like overdue and well deserved. The Champion particularly remembered Cena’s impactful and effective message after the Night of Champions triumph.
“I think one of the things that overwhelmed me the most about this is the outpouring of support and love and people saying, the words that came up the most were ‘overdue’ and ‘deserved’, like ‘well-deserved’ and ‘long overdue.’ And to get that from so many people that I respect and that I love and it’s really really been touching to no end. I guess one message that I got that I guess I didn’t expect, although I didn’t expect it and it was extremely nice was from John Cena.”
“He sent me a message and he just kind of reminded me of the difficulty of attaining this, and that less than 1% of people who ever aspire to do what we do ever gets to this point. And that’s not lost on me, but to hear it coming from him, just saying ‘congratulations.’ And one of one of the things he said that also really touched me is just that this is a genuinely earned, I don’t want to throw out personal stuff that he said to me, but the thing that stuck to me is just that he said ‘you really, you did it your way.’”
“And man, I just thought that was so cool coming from him. Cause he didn’t have to text me at all and he did. And it was really one of the more touching texts I got to be honest with you.”
“He’s a very thoughtful person. And I think he was just trying to remind me in case I wasn’t already – to be very mindful of the unlikeliness and how difficult it is to reach the mountain top and that you did it and you should be proud of that. And that was I guess in summary. But man, it was cool. It was a really cool message to get.”
Becky Lynch and Kevin Owens were among the first few to celebrate and applaud Zayn’s victory at the Premium Live Event last weekend.
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