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Normally I would say, ‘happy belated birthday John Cena’, but when WWE’s biggest star
was about to turn 40 yesterday, he kicked out at 39.
Vince McMahon tweeted his favourite big, sweaty man:
“Hustle Loyalty Respect” is not just an expression, it’s the measure of the man.
Happy birthday to the Babe Ruth of WWE, @JohnCena.
And that wasn’t the only milestone the Cena household celebrated at the weekend.
The Bella Twins’ personal YouTube channel passed 500,000 subscribers, so as a ‘thank
you’ to their fans, Nikki and John took off all their clothes.
Coincidentally, we here at WrestleTalk also passed a YouTube milestone over the weekend:
this channel now has 300,000 subscribers and counting.
And as my thank you to all of you, I’m...not going to take off all my clothes.
I’m just going to say thank you.
Thank you very much.
And we couldn’t do it without all of you, and the many who donate on WrestleTalk’s
Patreon page.
A huge thank you to The Hairy Hannibal Harry Bur-Jess, Jerry The Super Hero, Dr Fantastic
Marc Johnson, Maureen Pierece You Through the Heart, Allan ‘The Valentine’ Ackles,
Seminole Gamer and The Platinum Patriot for your support.
While it pales in comparison to passing half a million subscribers on YouTube, the biggest
achievement John and Nikki were celebrating coming out of Wrestlemania was getting engaged,
with a heartwarming proposal on the grandest stage of them all, a romantic gesture that
was the most talked-about mainstream story of Mania season, and, apparently, one completely
devised by WWE Executive Producer Kevin Dunn.
Yes, according to Sportskeeda - who have broken a number of professional wrestling stories
as of late - John Cena was originally meant to face The Undertaker at Wrestlemania 33.
This had been the reported plan for months.
But then in January, a crazy rumour started going around: Roman Reigns was now going to
be facing The Undertaker, and John Cena would partner with Nikki Bella in a mixed gender
tag match against The Miz and Maryse.
It was previously reported that Vince McMahon had seen how bad The Undertaker’s physical
condition was, and wanted to put over his next top star Reigns in The Deadman’s final
match, rather than giving that spot to Cena.
But now Sportskeeda have revealed the real reason was because Dunn came up with the proposal
idea, which Vince “then spent several weeks pitching the idea to Cena, who was initially
not in favour of the idea.
Cena eventually gave in, and he was rewarded with a short WWE Championship run.”
And they say romance is dead.
Apparently, the original plan - back when The Undertaker was on Smackdown to dig holes
and take souls - was for The Deadman to face AJ Styles at this year’s Royal Rumble, which
he would win in his home state of Texas.
Undertaker would then drop the title back to Styles at Elimination Chamber, where he
would’ve been eliminated by Cena, setting up their Wrestlemania match.
These changes, of course, rippled through the other top feuds on Smackdown.
Randy Orton was reportedly originally meant to turn on Bray Wyatt during the Royal Rumble
match, and then defeat The Eater of Worlds in a singles match at Elimination Chamber.
While The Miz was meant to issue an open challenge for his Intercontinental Title, which Daniel
Bryan would’ve answered by calling up Shinsuke Nakamura to the main roster.
And Cena wouldn’t have won his record-tying 16th world title.
We’re in store for a Wrestlemania calibre match tonight, though.
Showing complete disregard for his own life, Kalisto called out Braun Strowman after The
Monster Among Men threw him in a dumpster on last week’s episode of Raw.
Kurt Angle then quickly made Braun vs Kalisto in a Dumpster Match for tonight.
It’ll probably be rubbish.
I’ll see myself out.
Nevermind Wrestlemania 33, WWE went and botched the Superstar Shake-Up right after.
Watch the latest WrestleRamble episode to see exactly how they did that.
And WWE’s plans for Shinsuke Nakamura on Smackdown might have been leaked.
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