WWE legend and 17-time World Champion John Cena spoke with The Takedown on Sports Illustrated about various topics, including inviting NXT talent to participate in the John Cena Classic.
Cena said, “I love giving NXT kids a chance to debut on RAW after years of being down there. Some of the folks we invited are three, four years in the NXT system, and they’re finally getting a shot. They were crying [Wednesday night], dude. It was great.”
On the future of the John Cena Classic:
“I gotta thank Paul Levesque, and I gotta thank Nick Khan for being like, ‘Yeah, man, we’ll try it.’ Saturday Night’s Main Event seemed to work. We got Sol [Ruca], we got Je’Von [Evans], and we got Oba [Femi], and those three are thriving right now. So, what do we got to lose? We’ll try it, and if it stinks, like, whatever. We don’t have to do it again next year.”
