R-Truth On Putting His Own Spin On Promos, Proving Himself In His Feud With John Cena

R-Truth was a guest on the latest episode of Edge and Christian’s Pod Of Awesomeness. During the show, Truth talked about how he tries to take everything he’s given and make it worth watching. Truth went on to explain how Vince McMahon didn’t like one of his promos one time, and explained how the delivery threw him off.

“I never look at anything someone gives me as bad. They give me the freedom to ‘please add your own sauce’ and I’m like ‘Sauce?’ ‘Your own thing to it.’ It’s a matter of taking what they give you—no matter how you look at it— it is what you make out of it. That’s just the way I view things.

Matter of fact, since you brought this up, I did a promo that Vince [McMahon] didn’t like. It bothered me, because Vince likes all my promos. I had to ask him ‘I heard you didn’t like my promo’ [and Vince says] ‘No, no, no, no that wasn’t one of your good promos. What was missing was you weren’t in character.’ I thought I was in character, and you know what it was? It was how it was delivered to me, what I had to do. The person who delivered it to me was an ear of corn, cornball you see. He gave it to me in a dry monotone. It was just like that. I’m a person who goes on feel. He gave it to me like I was in trouble. So that’s how it came out to me. The guy gave me my promo and he didn’t laugh one time, so I said: ‘Damn I can’t be happy in this promo.’ And that was just my interpretation of it. I take whatever they give me and try to make it the best it can be. I always believe that you can take shit and make chicken salad out of it and people will eat it.”

Truth also talked about his championship feud with John Cena leading into Capitol Punishment in June of 2011. Truth says he was overwhelmed in a different way, but said he wanted to proved that he earned the spot he was in.

“That was kind of surreal. Cena was larger than life at the time. I was just prepared as much as I could. I was hungry, I was ready for it. I wasn’t overwhelmed like “This is making me nervous.” I was overwhelmed like “this is what it feels like.” It was with John… my mandate was not messing up. Wanting to prove a point that this spot was mine and I was going to own it.”