The Rock comments on John Cena's big win.
Cena capped off WrestleMania 41 by defeating Cody Rhodes to win his 17th world championship in WWE. Cena used heel tactics to win the title, blasting Rhodes with a belt shot and a kick to the groin. Controversially, Travis Scott also assisted in the attack.
Despite not appearing during the match, The Rock has plenty of positive thoughts on the match, saying that he loved Cena's moment. Rock also talked about Cena "not being a bad guy", stating that he's just fed up with the fans and their bullshit.
"John becoming the 17-time heavyweight champion and legitimizing himself as being, without question, the GOAT. Period. He’s on Mount Rushmore now." Rock said on The Pat McAfee Show. "Gotta kick a guy off to put him on. Dusty goes to the back, he was always on my Mount Rushmore. He goes on the back there with me. At the end of the night, John raising that title, that was the bottom line and north star. I loved it and loved that moment. I think he’s going to go on to have this insane run as a heel. What I love about John, I love that the fans are so engaged and so connected to John’s heel run. I see a few fans saying, ‘I really don’t believe he’s a bad guy. He’s playing a bad guy.’ Here is the thing, you don’t have to believe he’s a bad guy. You know why? He’s not a bad guy, he’s a good guy. I’ve known the guy for 20 years, we’ve gone up and down, to hell and back. We talk and text all the time. He’s not a bad guy. He’s telling the truth now. You can feel that in his delivery. He’s telling the truth. Imagine going out every single night for 25 years and know you’re going to get cheered and booed. In some places, it’s even harder, you’re going to get booed out of the building. That’s a hard psychological place to be at. I give John so much credit. When we did the heel turn, I said, ‘Brother, I give you so much credit and I hope you are exhilarated right now because what you are attempting to do takes guts and you are putting it all on the line.’ There is no blueprint for a heel John Cena. He was creating it as he went along and I thought he was brilliant. I can’t wait to see it go on for the rest of the year. I love there is a specific amount of dates we have John for and I love his connection to the audience. He’s not a bad guy, he’s not trying to play bad, he’s just talking the truth. He said, ‘Hey, I’m fed up with this shit’ in terms of this messed up relationship we have."
Elsewhere in the interview, Rock commented on the WrestleMania Saturday main event between Roman Reigns, CM Punk, and Seth Rollins. Check out his full comments here.
It is currently unknown when The Rock will appear next for WWE.
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