Triple H discusses John Cena's heel turn.
Despite being well over a month ago, Elimination Chamber is still one of the most talked about wrestling events of the year. This is mainly due to the fact that John Cena and aligned with The Rock after winning the Elimination Chamber match, turning heel for the first time in two decades.
In the past, Triple H has spoken about keeping big moments quiet before they happen, even noting that a "very tight circle" of people knew about Cena's heel turn before it happened. While speaking with Peter Rosenberg in an interview that aired on WWE's YouTube channel, Triple H revealed that three people on the executive team knew about the turn before it happened.
“We kept that so quiet that on our side, three people on the exec team knew. That’s it. Me and two others. Nobody else knew. Cena knew. Cena didn’t even tell his wife. Cena didn’t even tell his manager. Cody knew, Cody told no one, right. Obviously Rock knew. Travis sort of knew but he was just fucking going along, just being along for the ride. Doing exactly what they told him to do which is at some point slap Cody and he was slapping him whether Cena wanted it or not, cause Cena didn’t know about that part.”
Then, Triple H spoke about how he directed traffic at the end of the show.
“When we get to the end of the show, I have to tell everyone as we’re coming in to that last minute of Elimination Chamber, ‘Okay, there’s aftermath on this show. Everybody lay out, I’m directing traffic, I will call all of this. Marty, here’s how all of this is going to go.’ I rattle off all this shit to Marty, kind like shot for shot. It’s fast because we’re getting to the end of this match. Marty is like, ‘Holy shit.’ I’m like, ‘I will walk you through it’ because I’m still not saying on headset, and then John is going to turn on Cody. I’m leaving out details. So when we get there, I’m trying to be a fan and feel it and as it comes in, then technically put it out to the truck of where we need to go and hopefully be just ahead of it to where we can get it down."
Elsewhere in a seperate interview, Triple H spoke about his past communication issues with CM Punk. Check out his full comments by clicking here.
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