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John Cena on WWE Legacy, Peacemaker, and Staying Humble | Fan Expo Dallas 2025
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Jun 25, 2025
John Cena brings energy, insight, and heart to this packed Fan Expo Dallas panel. Whether talking about his early wrestling days, his rise in Hollywood, or how he stays grounded, Cena delivers with his signature blend of humor and humility. He covers: What Peacemaker means to him as both a character and a project Behind-the-scenes stories from his WWE career Why fan interaction matters more than fame The discipline and mindset he carries into every role His love for the fans and how they shaped his success Words of encouragement for those chasing their dreams 🎤 Recorded at Fan Expo Dallas 2025 📲 Follow @talesfromthecollection for more panels, celebrity interviews, and con coverage
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[Applause]
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[Music] can you hear me All right Can you hear me Uh first of all I want to say uh
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thank you for your presence and for your patience I was in the back uh meeting and talking to some people that uh had
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arranged for a VIP meet I want to thank you very much for being patient We're going to talk with you today not at you
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I know you got questions I got answers We're going to try to rapid fire this ask So let's get it going over here
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Let's go talk to him What has been your uh toughest rivalry up to date Toughest
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rivalry up to date Uh I I got that question asked earlier today and I answered it with a question of like hey
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what do you think is my toughest rivalry to date
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No I didn't No I mean this is a question for you What do you think is my toughest rivalry to date
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It's tough right Randy Orton Okay that's a good answer I'll go with that Randy Orton who we got right over here What
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was your favorite match in your career Okay I got 7 months left to use this answer and it's very genuine My next one
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over here Do you have any like behind the scenes
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stories that you like sharing from like a movie or TV show Oh yeah this crazy story like
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and then and you wouldn't believe it when
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and the craziest thing happened Craziest moment in my life Bar nut Thank
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you so much Right over here Hey what's going on Welcome to Texas Hey question So growing up I remember look you kind
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of had a certain cadence about you that I could relate to You were mentioning Allan Iverson jerseys a lot of hip-hop
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right that a lot of the black people over there melon without up to 11 So here's my question It seemed like I saw
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a clip you were mentioning you like rod digga and cannabis and all this stuff and you seem to talk like you been to a lot of cookouts So I want to know where
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Yeah I'm being real with you So I want to know when were you around a lot of black folk man cuz there was a way you
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talked that just seemed organic and not gimmicky And I was wondering around Uh so I'll come to Mr Beer No no no Um like
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snap judgment is a great thing right We're all human beings We all have it So you can't look at someone and not uh
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project a judgment of who you think they are Yeah I grew up in a town called West Newbury Massachusetts that had 1,200
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people and was 99.9% repeating white
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So growing up I did not have a lot of diversity When did I start to get
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exposed to diversity in my life I was lucky enough to go to dormatory school uh out in western Massachusetts called
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Kushi Academy Only 450 students My roommate TJ Norris was from Compton Kid
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on the second floor of Alumni Hall Josh Lobo is from New York So I got exposed to a lot of diversity and a lot of
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culture through that And ever since I was like 15 16 instead of having to fight uphill about like yo I listen to
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hip-hop and everybody in West Newbury being like that's not what we listen to Yeah I walked into a safe space where we
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would have battles about like yo who's better Trap Called Quest or Snoop So right right around right right around a
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very important time in my life where you're developing as an adolescent about 15 years old is when I got exposed to
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more culture That's what's up Great question Right over here We're working now All right Here we go
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Hi John I don't know if you remember me uh at the uh Planet Hollywood in New
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York City You walked right by a US soldier and you noticed how disappointed
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he was You walked right by He was trying to get your autograph You actually turned around and you made sure that he
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was the very first one
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Later on you took a picture with that soldier
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I have that picture with me right now at 20 years Can you please sign this Yes
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sir No problem Guys I'm not going to do this for everybody But this is a 20-year story I think it deserves at least four
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letter signatures [Applause]
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[Applause]
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Man I dig joints like this I dig get togethers like this cuz we're all here for the same passion This young lady
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just gave me a marker so I can put it a button on a 20 year story for someone who uh served our country and and
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protects our ideal rights Kindness of work and people helping people I like that Here we go Hi John Congrats on the
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17th Man I'm sorry for talking so fast This guy's like trying to translate I hope you're doing a good job Go for it
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Hi John Congrats on the 17 championship Um my question is how does someone get into wrestling Whether it's through
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producing writing or even getting into the action in the ring How Let me invite you to get to that So as far as the
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creative branch you guys have seen my stuff It's not creative I wouldn't know how to do that Uh as far as the
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performing branch I think it's uh it's far more wellnown now that everything runs through Orlando Florida Now there
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are tons of good schools around I think Booker T has a school in Houston I would definitely recommend uh going under
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Governor Booker T I know Seth Rollins Cody Rhodess they all got there's great schools all over but all roads lead to
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Orlando Florida And NXT does have open tryyous and they've partnered with brands like Evolve to try to give
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independent wrestlers you know a chance to have exposure Uh step one start like
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find a place to perform I always tell people stop putting a door in front of a window If it's something you want to do
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do it Find a place to do it I started in Southern California at flea markets and
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barbecues So you never know where the road would take you Just just move over the road my friend Be safe Love you over
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here Uh which of your Wrestlemania entrances
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is your favorite and why Uh man I like this last one cuz it was super plain
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It was like So um I started doing the funky Wrestlemania entrances cuz like nobody was I remember my first
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Wrestlemania main event for a world championship was against JBL and he came
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out in a limousine and he dropped money with his face on it and we rehearsed his entrance and I'm looking at this going
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like this is fantastic and I turn to him I go where's my entrance dead he turns to me he goes
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you're winning that's enough but I really like the spectacle you made
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of the entrance so I was like man if nobody's doing special stuff you know That's Wrestlemania That's a a a a an
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event that is a big ask for you as a fan I wanted to make it special and unique
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And now tons of people do special and unique entrances So this year I just wanted to flip it and go like as
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barebones simple as I could So I like this one I got to I got to take that back Sorry Got to take that back I had a
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chance to bring 50 kids from the Makea-Wish Foundation on the stage for WrestleMania
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There's nothing like the view out of the tunnel You look at the stadium and it's just bananas So the fact I got to share
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that moment with some close friends that day that was pretty big up too Right over here
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I'm cheating cuz this is technically a hybrid question Have you ever felt
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extraordinarily low self-confidence in yourself And what would you say to somebody who does feel um
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extraordinarily low self-confidence or a negative image in themselves Okay I think I'll give you the hybrid That's a
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great one I'm a human being of course If we've all felt uh beat up We've all felt
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low self-esteem We've all felt those moments of weakness I'm a human We all go through that Words of advice just
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remember you're worthy of love Like you are here You made it You got great qualities that brought you here today
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Just try to lean into those and lean into the love Now you got it How How are we doing out there We working all right
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I know what you're trying to do these days I want everybody to be hurt Everybody doing okay All right Over here
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What's your favorite match ever Hey man I still I I want to give you like a
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legit answer about like this time I wrestled this guy This was my favorite I got a lot of those but I'm still in the
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game I'm still in the game little homie I'm not retiring till December So I'm looking forward to the bank My next one
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is always my favorite Yep So I'm honored and um I'm from here Congratul
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Congratulations on You're from the convention sir Yeah I know I got couches I didn't see a
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bed anywhere but cool right Yeah So how do you feel How do you feel being like
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so tight Like uh gosh that's a So that's
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a great question cuz my answer is I don't know yet I I I think uh I think years later you and I will be able to
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revisit this and I'll have a better answer Right now I I don't know Me too Thank you so much No Yep Hey John Cena
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Uh thanks for making my son's birthday come true You're epic What makes you a beast
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Uh your perspective sir Thank you very much We got a We got a referee in the house
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Was that against the rules or am I good That's all right What's up John Big time fan I'm here
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representing as a ref I'm a real ref I ref
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wrestling I am trying to be a ref So but my question is for Peacemaker actually
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Sure So the end I hope I'm not spoiling for anybody but at the very end when you
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come out you you see all the uh DC people Yes You did you pop any of
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them when you when you told Jason Mamoa to go you know freak the Did you I can't
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really say the kids here but we're dancing around a lot of stuff here Uh Peacemaker is an adult show and our
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audience is so ahead and say hell no you can't We got kids in the crowd That's why I
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asked you You know what I'm talking about here Yeah of course When I went to Aquaman I said "Go quit us a fish."
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That's the language we use here to get that point across That makes the point across How did it take Did it take it
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Honestly it was like 4:30 in the morning So uh we we only did it a few times but
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it was funny every time I saw everybody pop so that's why I asked Oh man So much I appreciate Thank you for Thanks for be
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safe out there too All right Who else we got As John Cena the wrestler is that is
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that me or is that not me I don't know That's complicated That's a complex question Continue In your opinion what
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is the hardest part about being a professional wrestler Uh the fact that someday it has to go away and someday it
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has to end because gosh it is the coolest man It is just the coolest But I
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think someday you got to close that book I am currently training to be a wrestler right now You you are
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[Applause] training him Okay that's fantastic Just be safe All right All right Calculated
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risk All right Here we go Hi John My name's Jennifer Hi Um as a 20 plus year
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veteran um I know this final run you've been talking about how you want to ruin wrestling in this final run And as
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somebody who wearing my favorite wrestler since I was like 8 years old that hurts and that stinks So um my
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question is is that really how you want your last run like what your legacy to be like Uh so I don't want to I don't
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want to lean into stuff that's currently on television because I think we got an exciting program and I don't want to
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lean into any spoilers Uh what I will do I don't want to dodge the question either What I will do is reinforce the
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fact of uh for 23 years I have left everything I have out on that canvas for
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all you guys That's exactly what I'm going to do until December So you'll do my best I promise you that over here
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Hello Mr Cena My question is what title meant most to you to win Your first one
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or your last one Well you you can't have the last one without the first one right
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So I'd say the first one Yes sir Right on Okay Here we go Give it up for John
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Cena everybody Oh right on Welcome to Mr Cena Uh I recently The
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audience is great by the way They get like You guys are very appreciative He's like "Keep it over John You guys gave me the golf clap thing
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Anyway [Applause] go for it All right So Mr Cena I have
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recently lost 80 lbs I'm Congrats I'm a work in progress I'm not
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But um for a man as busy as you are with all the projects and travel you do how do you stay consistent with your fitness
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on the go and doing all the things And if you have any other fitness advice go ahead Great question Thanks Boston First
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of all we should all always be a work in progress I appreciate your journey 80 lbs down that's fantastic you're
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healthier and better for uh man just just try to make the next right decision
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If you're on the go and you can grab a food that's calorie dense or you can grab a food that is less calorie dense
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just try to make the next right choice That's all Xbox you got over here
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So do you think after you retire do you think you'll still come back to say hi
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or something Oh my goodness Of course I [Applause]
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they they will have to kick me out I uh have I have actually put it in my
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contract to be an ambassador to WWE for as long as I can
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But I just can't physically fall down for too much longer So yes I will come back and say hi often I hope I get that
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chance Right on Over here Hey John Uh congrats on 17 Um I wanted to ask if
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there was a time in your career that you've ever thought of an idea of going to a different promotion Mike not once
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Not ever Not once not ever never have never will Uh I say this about my retirement cuz I don't like messing
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around with my word and the promises I spent to y'all Once December comes uh there's not a check that can change my
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mind It is an I'll be the first wrestler to actually really retire Uh
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you know I I love uh I love sports entertainment I I do love wrestling but
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uh I'm I'm so proud and honored to be able to call myself WWE So never
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uh how did you create the spinner How did I create Yeah the spinner belt Oh
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championship Man I must have had a lot to drink that night I honestly uh so they they took a chance
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on me doing it with the US title and it was something I did with a chain gang medallion and I was like man if I wanted
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to put my spin on this I should move the medallion to the medallion of the belt And the US Championship actually worked
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like it was successful I think they designed a great one And then when we came out with the spinner championship I
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know you guys dig it now but boy were you pissed off Sorry about my language Yeah Uh so one of them worked one of
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them kind of did not But that was cool cuz it kind of brought me on this this journey that we got and now that I see
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them all it's pretty just like you Thanks man It's just good to see him now I appreciate it over here No Um so when
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you look back on your career what is one moment that you will cherish forever out
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of your whole entire WWE Uh doing the movie that I met my wife at Absolutely
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That's one moment I cherish forever Um so WWE was kind enough to let me take
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some time off and film a movie called Play with Fire which is where I met my wife and that is a moment I will cherish forever Great question right over here
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Hello Mr Cena Um recently I was in the accident and never give up has kept me
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going through my um rehab and so forth been really significant to me What's a
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quote or saying that keeps you going Uh good good question I don't know if it's a saying I don't know if I lean on a
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mantra or a saying Um I I very much lean into gratitude Uh I
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can't tell you how many of you I'm so grateful for y'all but how many of you guys who are standing in line for so
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long when you had a chance to come up and share a moment with me the one thing
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you led with was "Man you must be exhausted You're the one standing in line You're
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the one getting up early to get to the convention center to make the most out of this moment." And the moment you want
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to share with me is "Man you must be exhausted." I'm so grateful for moments like that cuz even if I'm a little bit
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tired for someone else who's been through just as much if not more and using their resources to do it is like
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hey man you must be exhausted That makes me feel good So I don't know if it's a mantra but I sure as hell lean into
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gratitude and know that I'm grateful to be surrounded by such great people Thank you
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Yes Hi John Um you might not remember this with all the acting gifts you've
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done lately but um do you remember being in the Fred movies Yeah sure
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Fred's dead What was the most memorable time you've had making them Living in
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the refrigerator Because there were such lowbudget movies They literally just got an old
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refrigerator and that smelled like an old refrigerator and I had to like close the door and stay in there and come out
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and it was like in a junkyard that was I remember the smell and the yellow paint on the fridge like it was yesterday Yes
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absolutely Over here John thank you so much for being here and I just have to
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say thank you so much The when you did that promo about the last 20 years thank you for raising me the last 20 years You
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were spot on But um too kind Thanks Thank you We
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might have missed the mark on that one That's okay But um I wanted to say um one of my
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favorite things that I heard you say was the control what you control because I remember the sidewalk bit from the Logan
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Paul podcast and you're like what do you do when you use a sidewalk control what you can control But that's like a huge
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thing and it's been a huge thing for me the past couple years Where did you get that control what you control and what
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would you what would you say to people like to let that help motivate them as well Uh not necessarily a
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I guess a pillar of motivation for me I use that when when stuff is going bad
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when I'm having a bad day Uh I think I ask myself why am I having a bad day Uh
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and then I ask myself what can I control to make the day better And a lot of times it's just take a different
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perspective So um control the controllable really helped
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me out Helps me out when I'm weak on patients when my patience gets into the empty because I can control my patience
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I can have a little bit more empathy I can take a breath I can walk away from a situation That that for me is is really
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a crutch It really comes in handy when I'm on patience Yeah Over here you in
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your opinion what do you like doing more wrestling or or acting That's a great
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question What would you think Acting because of in wrestling you get hurt Wow
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You know uh acting they hurt your feelings a lot too though I don't know if you've seen some of my stuff or read
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the reviews They they will hurt your feelings Uh to be quite honest and this
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is not a knock I don't think this is going to lose me any movie jobs because I do give my all to every opportunity I
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have Just like we're here today I'm trying to answer all your questions I love wrestling so much more So much more
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There's no there's no denying the magic in an arena for a live WWE broadcast I I
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love wrestling so much more and I'm fine saying that But then knocks me out
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business I'll be accountable for saying that That's a great question Who we got Hi John Um one of my favorite actors of
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all time uh Val Kelmer said that when he was filming Batman Forever Warren Buffett's kids came and wanted to meet
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him and he was like "Oh I think they just wanted to meet Batman." So I was like "Should I pose Should I strut?" And
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I think you have an even more interesting equation because you are an actor named John Cena who plays a
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wrestler named John Cena I know who I am Dude dress the dude
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So what are the similarities and differences between the man John Cena
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and the wrestler John Cena Uh I think the similarities are we look exactly the
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same Um we have the exact same name Uh I think I think the differences are um you
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see the wrestler John Cena for a curated amount of time where the human being
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John Cena is a 24-hour clock Um there are moments in WWE where you you see me
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sad angry as of late uh frustrated as of late uh excited in years past elated um
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vulnerable but the the difference between what you see and it's weird because again all we
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have to go in is what we see You guys have let me into your living rooms for 25 years every effing week It's like we
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know each other but it's all it's like we're hanging out for like 16 minutes a week And if you hung out with me for 24
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hours you would understand that there's a little more nuance there But it's okay Like a lot of people when they do stuff
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they want to be known for more They cuz they are more I'm okay with myself and
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knowing that I am more but I'm also okay with hanging out in your living room for 16 minutes And I'm very grateful for
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that And as a kid from Boston did it burn your skin when they made you wear a Yankees jersey No man It was
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No I I actually kind of liked it I still may have that Yankees jersey
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Yeah Two people who lost like a you traitor Yes Go for it Um so post
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wrestling like what do you have in the pipeline as far as movies and other projects that you're working on Uh you know what I don't know and and I I I
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don't uh some a plan will fall into place You know just go read books or play the piano or hang out with the
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misses Uh but I just want to enjoy the now I'm kind of kind of overfilled my
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schedule So I'm doing a lot uh between now and December but I really want to enjoy the now Every time before every
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single time before I go out for Raw Smackdown or Premium live event Triple H
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will come up to me and remind me like "Hey enjoy this." And I don't need him to but I appreciate the fact that he
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does because it's a good just a good reminder to like stay present because my
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view is going to change very soon I won't be in the ar I won't be in the ring I'll be in the seats And he just
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reminds me and he's been down that road himself of like I have to hang it up So
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man I just I just want to be in every moment now and I'll figure out January or January comes like how we doing on
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time Are we good I mean you don't have I have a watch on us that's broken though Uh I don't know
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How are you guys doing You guys are all right We can do a few more questions All right we'll keep we'll keep we'll keep
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working When I start seeing people get off definitely wave the white flag We'll keep going Hi thank you so much for being here Um I was wondering just your
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personal opinion um if the Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson uh match was like real
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or not if the Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson match was real or not or was like staged kind
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of uh well uh so here's here's what I do know I didn't see the fight I also think
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that I'm a biased person to answer this question because I'm a lifelong sports entertainer so I don't want to put my
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bias into this question what I do know is that it was an it was an event that I
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was excited about I wasn't able to see it but I knew about it beforehand and I was excited about it So I think there in
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lies the magic and whatever whether it was legitimate or staged as long as you
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can keep the magic then you did something good you know Uh I I don't
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follow boxing but I knew about it And I think that's that says something special for those two So that's that's my stance
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on that one Thank you Yeah Right off Hi John Hey welcome to Dallas and It's
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great to see you Oh nobody can see me Come on now I had to do it I had to do it at least once It's my best material
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Anyway my question is which WWE superstar do you see as the uh feature
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of the distance Uh here's what I've learned about doing that right I'll be
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wrong Whatever I say I'll be wrong And I know that not only from personally picking
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wrong people through the line and being surprised by wonderful stories but no
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one would have said my name Because if you asked Shawn Michaels Steve Austin
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Hunter Helmsley whomever is it even whoever who's the future of the business
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from the class 2000 Everyone would have said four or five other people before me
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So they were all wrong I am on both sides of the lens I have chosen wrong and I have proved people wrong I think
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the fun is waiting to see who surprises us Thank you Let's go over here Yeah
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This isn't a super like heartfelt question but I was wondering out of all the memes about you which one is like
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your favorite man You know you give me like a thousand to choose from
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Uh a couple a couple folks brought ice cream cones today Taking the B
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She want um I like the Are you Are you sure about
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that one It's pretty cool The old salmon blazer dance routine It's
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pretty cool Uh man there's so many out there I realize that I have become a meme That's This
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sucks It's beautiful It's actually beautiful I uh those are my top three How's that Yeah And that's a great
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question That That one's That one's going to get You're going to get traction out of that That's a good one
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Nice late clap for the meme question Excellent
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Could you Could you sign my championship Champ how am I going to say no to you Do you have a marker Yeah All right Right
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over here
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Gutsy I like the courage All right let's go John So obviously
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wrestlers are on the road a lot Do you have a favorite partner that you were on the road with Do I have a favorite
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partner Oh yeah My wife No for real man So here's the thing and I I'll lean in
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like the That's the obvious lowhanging fruit but I'm going to lean into that answer right Uh I I met my wife 6 years
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ago We've been married for 5 years She's an engineer She's the brains of the family She can do some complicated
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things with her mind that I don't get She has to talk to me in caveman speak But she didn't know anything about
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wrestling Nothing She knew me from the movie Sisters She knew me as Pizuzu
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She went on a date with Pizuzu but she didn't know anything about wrestling And I didn't want to I didn't want to hide
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that part of my life because for so long quite honestly I kept that as a safe space for me to go when everything else
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went wrong So when we started getting serious I said yo you are you are coming
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to the shows and I want you to travel and I want you to do she was on summer
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so she got to do like a real loop of like Friday Saturday Sunday live event Monday television fly home So and she
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got worn out by the travel She's been in the room like writing promos and hearing how match goes together and she's always
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ringing size So she gets to like see how the sauce is made and then go out and see the execution And because she's my
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favorite partner now if she isn't there for a show and I can say "Oh man we spent all day writing this thing and it
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sucked." She knows what that feels like Or if it's like "Hey I took this bump and this was kind of janky She's she's
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taking bumps in the rig." And she knows what that feels like So she's my favorite partner because if I'm having a
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good or bad day I now have the empathy of the person I love the most to be like I understand that because you brought me
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into your world That's why she's my favorite roar
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[Applause] [Music] Hope you remember me from the autographs
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Um today is my dad's birthday and even though his favorite wrestlers were Macho Man and Triple H you're my favorite Yes
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And can you please do a favor for me to wish uh my dad Ezra a happy birthday
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Sure can He passed away 6 years ago 17 months fighting cancer Right First of
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all we'll have to
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I'm going to wish the happiest birthday to Arizona He would be so very proud to see you for the courage bringing your
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family here sharing your story with somebody you just met Man I I totally respect that I'm wishing a happy
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birthday to Arizona [Applause]
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Nice to see you I have a question And if it's too hard like you don't have to answer What is your favorite Star Wars
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movie If it's too tough again you don't have to answer Tough room dog
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Tough Tough room answer Um man
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Yikes I don't think there's a right answer I think I'm going get bumrushed by everybody
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Uh so I will uh I will I will say I have
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wonderful moments from Star Wars One one of my favorites one of my most impactful Star Wars moments is actually from
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episode 1 Uh I'm that one I'm going to keep with me I'm not going to let you know but it's a very impactful one Uh
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what I love about the Star Wars movies is it truly is like Campbell's a hero's
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journey It really they do a great job with storytelling Um
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actually because of that I would like to say Empire Strikes Back [Music]
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I think everyone in this room will probably have their opinion and give their answer of why I think it's brave
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to do a whole movie and not have the ending you want Commit that it is a
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piece of the journey Like you want to talk about longterm storytelling setting a movie up as a standalone piece
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of like yo this is the middle and we're cool with that I thought that was very brave at the time and I still remember
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it as a kid So I'm going with that Thank you
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Thank you John Much Gracias for being an inspiration for me And this CD the You Can See album meant a lot for me in my
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childhood And I was wondering what it meant for you creating this album And
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what is your favorite song Uh thank you so much Uh the favorite song is time is
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now hands down cuz I wake up with nightmares in that thing I've heard it so much Uh but no that's my favorite
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song Um it was a big risk Uh I I financed the album myself and I pretty
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much handed it to WWE at a time where I didn't have a lot of money and it was not cheap to do But uh what a great
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example of a bet on yourself If I'm going to make an investment I don't I don't gamble I don't go to casinos I
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don't do any of that stuff I I always think the safest bet is the bet you place on yourself And every time I see
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one of those CDs it makes me feel good cuz that was the biggest bet at the time I'd ever placed on myself So that's what
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that means to me We're going to take uh I don't know if I'll be able to get to everybody but we're going to take a few Go ahead Hey John uh so uh over the
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course of your career before you be on the road what's the biggest life lesson that you've learned
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Uh be authentic because with enough time people can see uh
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there's kids in the crowd Um people can see through BS So believe the
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truth and be authentic as much as you can That's not easy by the way but that's what I've learned Thank you Yes 5
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minutes All right Here we go 5 minute warning Uh hello Hey I was wondering if
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I could take a picture Gosh how can I say no to that I can't I
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totally can't All right
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So very cool Thank you for this I don't want to lose it Uh very cool for asking but like here's what I like about that
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moment Everything is a no until you ask right Everything is a no until you ask
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And what what courage on a young person to be like I'm going to shoot my shot I'm going for it I like it Okay Hey John
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Um I just had one question for Wrestlemania 23 Uh I know you're a big car guy How did you feel behind the
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wheel of that Mustang and did you keep it Uh after a car would have poor Carfax
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and go through an accident like the window at Wrestlemania I wouldn't I wouldn't splurge on that but it was
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really cool to be able to drive a um like a Rental Racer a Herz rent racer Mustang in Detroit I thought that was
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really cool Uh those cars were fun I did have a lot of fun in the car before I returned it Uh and I did not keep it but
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I did very much thoroughly enjoy it Thank you Thank you
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Hey John Uh you and Randy I mean pretty much just you know made us grow up
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loving wrestling and everything Uh when I went to Backlash I saw you get emotional Um what does Randy and the
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rivalry and also chemistry mean to you Okay that's a tough question because
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again I don't want to spoil a good TV show Um I think you guys as an audience
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got to see that play out in real time Uh and I I look forward to to every episode
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we have until December Hopefully we can revisit that question in January I'd love to do that but I don't want to spoil the show for nobody Thanks Yellow
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Mr Cena Um if there was a musical what part If there was a musical what part
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would I play No there's a John Cena in a musical What would the opening sequence be What would the opening sequence be
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Yes It would be a song called Why the F Are You guys here at a John Cena musical
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And if you lasted through that you there's something truly wrong Yes Absolutely Yeah
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Hi From a interview that you did a few years ago um you talked about how you
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like K-pop Yes What's your favorite K-pop song
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So uh man I really I got to say because I don't want to again I got to speak
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truthfully and authentically K-pop is So J-Hob is my guy but uh I don't
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necessarily like K-pop I gravitated towards BTS
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And honestly honestly like it's it's amazing music The dance routines are
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flawless They look so beautiful What I love is people who looked and
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acted like they had it all being open with their emotions and telling other people to start practicing self love And
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that hit me at a time in my life where I needed to practice some self love So like we hit it off on a personal level
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And since then we've connected with each other We've shot videos I've seen them I've never seen one of their shows but I
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don't want to speak unauthentically and untruthfully If I get a chance to listen to music around my own I rarely listen
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to music It is old blues and outlaw country But what what what K-pop what
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BTS specifically did for me is they found me at a right time in my life to give me hope and inspiration through who
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they are as people And that's like hey you never know who you can reach They reached a 48-year-old dude who was struggling with selfworth And I
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appreciate that That's a great question I hope you don't find the answer I'm just trying to be truthful Right on Okay
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I just um is it true that you ship Baku Deu Is it true that what you ship Baku
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Deku The rumors Is it Is it true that what So sorry So there's a ship between
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Bakugoski and then Isizuku Madora Do you ship them
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But am I involved in shipping and receiving Is that what you're [Applause]
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I ship out as every now and again That's about what I do but I also receive those on multiple occasions Uh because I
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couldn't understand half of the vernacular used in that question I got to say that's a that's an internet rumor We're going to bust that myth right now
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All right we got one more question All right final question
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Are you ever believed to be associated with the MCU
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Man this kid knew he was last [Applause] Yikes you uh you sir you sir just became
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a man So I don't know who goes to these conventions but if anybody in the MCU is
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in the room uh I hope they heard that question and heard what I heard of like man we'd like to see John Cena as a
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Marvel superhero Thank you for the applause I know we all
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love a good rivalry right Here's what I know about comics and superheroes They
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run parallel to sports entertainment fans The fandom and the the passion that
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I see in the superhero universe whether it's DC or Marvel reminds me of
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passionate WWE fans Here is my vision Here is my hope for the future Everybody
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plays nice in the same sandbox I would love Iron Man to shake hands
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with Superman Like I would love to see all superheroes across all platforms be
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involved in a universe So if that happens and I get my wish as a member of
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the DC I would essentially walk into the MCU I don't write the checks and and and
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make the parts But right now my answer's got to be no But I hope there is a world where I see all these passionate people
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come for for comics and superheroes I hope we can have different debates
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because everyone will it'll just give us more stories to tell and more creativity And I know I'm
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going to get punched in the face by critics for saying this but my long-term vision is we can tell stories with
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characters from both sides of the fence Can we all get along and make some good comic posts And on that note what a hell
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of a question to end with That's my time folks Thank you so much
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Love you guys Thank you
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