John Cena‘s retirement tour featured several callbacks that many fans easily caught onto. However, Cena says there was one he included that no one picked up on.
John Cena reflected on his last year in WWE during an appearance on the No-Contest Wrestling podcast. He told hosts O’Shea Jackson Jr. and TJ Jefferson that he included many Easter eggs during the retirement tour and revealed one that called back to his days as The Prototype on the independent scene.
The Prototype saw Cena don a few looks, including a blond and slicked-back mohawk, while he was on the independent scene. Cena wanted to pay tribute to the look in his final match, but also pointed out the limitations in doing so.
“This last year, my ‘inside baseball’ stuff, there’s so many Easter eggs that people don’t know about, to the point of even in the match against Gunther,” Cena said. “I tried to grow my hair out like the Prototype from UPW and OVW. I couldn’t dye it, because I was working in between stuff, but I could fade it and grow it long and have that comb-back. Nobody caught that, but nobody’s supposed to. I was just doing it for like, if you get it, you get it.”
Cena broke down his retirement tour even more and said he wanted the year to be like a cycle of life. He previously compared the match, which saw him smile while tapping out, to dying peacefully in the ring.
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