An entire host of WWE legends have handed by the corporate’s Efficiency Heart in Orlando, Florida to supply pointers and assist information the subsequent era in the correct course. A kind of legends is John Cena, who — in keeping with AEW (and former WWE) star Swerve Strickland on his “Swerve Metropolis Podcast” — would attempt to assist as many individuals as potential every time he dropped by.
“There was like a line out the door of individuals he was going to fulfill with,” Strickland mentioned. “[There was] like 9 folks, ‘I will get you all on this room collectively.’ Increase, closed the door, and he was like ‘I obtained like 30 extra minutes left, ask away.”
Strickland acknowledged that, at instances, there could be 60 to 70 folks lined up within the Efficiency Heart attempting to ask Cena questions, who regardless of being a really busy man, wished to take advantage of his time with everybody. “He did not wish to waste anyone else’s time or need [them] to really feel like ‘I had my second, however I by no means obtained it,’ so he simply gave everyone—9, ten folks, 5 minutes every.”
The previous WWE Champion is taken into account by many to be among the best performers of his era, which has left Strickland questioning if the enterprise will see anyone like him once more within the subsequent 10 years. “I am not speaking about simply expertise or [a] machine, as a result of you may make that, however you possibly can’t create what he entails. All these further little issues, like you possibly can’t make that,” he mentioned.
Strickland was launched by WWE in November 2021, leaving the corporate as a former “NXT” North American Champion. He debuted in All Elite Wrestling on the Revolution pay-per-view in March 2022; since then, he is received the AEW Tag Staff Championships with Keith Lee and gone on to turn into one of many breakout singles stars for the corporate because of his feuds with Darby Allin and “Hangman” Adam Web page.
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