WWE Hall Of Famer Compares John Cena’s Heel Turn To An Iconic Hulk Hogan Feud

WWE Corridor of Famer addresses John Cena’s heel flip.

Earlier this 12 months at Elimination Chamber 2025, Cena turned heel for the primary time in nearly 20 years. In pursuit of his seventeenth World title, Cena joined forces with The Rock and stabbed Cody Rhodes within the again.

Since his character transition on 1st March 2025, Cena has appeared twice on tv, sharing a stare-down with Cody Rhodes, with out participating in a promo battle with him. Cena final obtained bodily with The American Nightmare at Elimination Chamber and has not exchanged fists since then.

Just lately, throughout an episode of Busted Open Radio, Corridor of Famer Bubba Ray Dudley, defined how Cena’s heel flip was essential for uplifting Cody Rhodes’ babyface run, earlier than evaluating it with the Hulk Hogan-Andre The Large feud. Stunning the world in 1987, Andre The Large turned heel on his long-time ally Hulk Hogan and went after his World title.

“The most effective factor about [Cena’s heel turn] is it’s all for the appropriate causes. The reason being Cody Rhodes. When Vince calls Andre [the Giant], and needs to show Andre heel, this, you recognize, this mega babyface, beloved, and every thing they did. To see now what they’re doing with Cena, and Cena turning heel all for the betterment of Cody and to take Cody to the subsequent stage; what Andre did for Hulk [Hogan].”

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The duo is once more set to return face-to-face on the thirty first March episode of Uncooked in London, forward of their WrestleMania 41 match.

John Cena Has Spilled His Plans For His WWE Retirement Tour

Showing on the twenty fourth March episode of Uncooked in Glasgow, Cena opened the present and addressed the gang. Blaming them for his heel flip, John Cena continued to disclose his retirement tour plans. Hoping to break wrestling for the followers, he mentioned,

“I’m going to break wrestling. I’m going to break wrestling for each fan, each wrestler, for everybody. At WrestleMania, I make historical past by profitable a seventeenth championship, and make you overlook the title of Ric Aptitude.

I’ll win that championship and retire with it. I’m taking it house with me, and leaving all of you to create a model new toy belt, as a result of the true one comes house with me! I would be the final actual champion in WWE!”