During an appearance on Busted Open Radio, WWE NXT star Mason Rook discussed various topics, including his first meeting with 17-time World Champion John Cena and what Cena told him.
Rook said, “When I first met John, I was actually doing extra work for WWE in Glasgow, and that’s when he pulled me to a side. He was the first important person that I saw on the day. We were all walking into the extra room, and he was in there signing 8x10s in one of the production rooms…I thought to myself, ‘This might be the only time I get to introduce myself and say hello to him.’ I shook his hand and said, ‘Hey, my name is Will. It’s a real pleasure to meet you.’ He shook my hand and said to me then, at first I thought it was a rib and he was winding me up, I didn’t know how he was like personally, but he said to me he was a huge fan of my work, and he watched it because at the time he was filming in Budapest and one of the indie companies I worked for in England was somehow broadcast on that channel, so he would watch it on his downtime. From that moment on, he became a fan of me. I guess it’s a credit to my work and belief that pro wrestling is my job and what I do. At the same time, to hear one of the greatest of all time say that and give me that kind of validation was very surreal and something I’m extremely grateful for, for John to not only give his time to me then, but obviously, since I’ve arrived in WWE, he’s been quite vocal about me, and he’s not had to do that, so I’m forever grateful to him for that.”
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