AEW World Champion Samoa Joe and WWE legend John Cena have a powerful bond because of their time breaking into the enterprise collectively. Joe and Cena educated collectively within the late ’90s and their work collectively in Final Professional Wrestling led to WWE signing Cena to a developmental contract. WWE handed up on signing Joe, who continued to construct a fame in firms like Ring of Honor within the US, and Zero-ONE in Japan.
Throughout a latest interview with “ESPN,” the AEW World Champion seemed again on his time touring up and down California with Cena and revealed one thing about Cena’s Physician of Thuganomics character that followers won’t have recognized. “Individuals assume that the freestyling began in WWE, however all that began again within the day,” Joe mentioned. “On highway journeys as much as Northern California and John happening freestyle raps for hours at a time. I imply, simply going off. We would have no matter night combine, the drive time combine that might be on, and we might be driving as much as San Francisco, and John would simply be killing it. The brother can rap.”
When Joe finally signed with WWE in 2015, he did get an opportunity to cross paths with Cena. The 2 males had a pair of one-on-one matches in 2017 at WWE stay occasions, however they by no means acquired the possibility to wrestle in a televised singles match.
They did nevertheless handle to lock up on pay-per-view on the 2017 Survivor Sequence occasion when Joe and Cena have been on reverse groups within the annual battle for model supremacy. There have been rumors of a match between the 2 at WrestleMania 35 in 2019 when Joe was the WWE United States Champion, however that bout by no means got here to be.
