Triple H talks about the process of John Cena turning heel.
Back at WWE Elimination Chamber 2025, the wrestling world was brought to a stand still by the shocking heel turn of John Cena, who aligned himself with The Rock at the event by viciously attacking Cody Rhodes along with Travis Scott. Since then, Cena has blamed the fans for his turn, and revealed his plans to 'ruin wrestling' by taking the WWE title home with him after WrestleMania 41.
In a new interview with Alex McCarthy of The Daily Mail, Chief Content Officer of WWE Triple H was asked if it was hard to convince Cena to turn heel, with 'The Game' explaining Cena's willingness to do the change.
"No,It was a conversation - without getting into the details - it was a conversation that when it was brought up, everybody... I think in John's mind he was like 'wow, I didn't think you were going to say that. I love it.' It's a challenge to him. John's not a complacent person, right? I think he would have done it and he would have done it happily and he would have done it for fans, but I think there would have been a piece of him that would have been like "alright, I'm just going to go through my day here. This now, I guess it's no different than if a Hollywood role for any actor where they say 'we'd like you to play the character you've played in 20 other movies pretty much and just do the same thing.' It's like "OK." At a certain point in time they come and they give you something way off something you've ever done and you're like 'Wow, alright, that's a challenge I've never done before. That energises you and gets your creatives juices going and excites you, it lights you up as a performer. This is going to be special because John is lit up about it. We're lit up about it. It's going to be incredible."
Cena is currently scheduled for his current final advertised appearance on the road to WrestleMania on tonight's edition of WWE Monday Night RAW, where he is set to go face to face with Cody Rhodes.
Triple H recently spoke to talent ahead of the recent WWE tryouts in the UK over the weekend. You can read more about that here.
