Cope Says It’s Super Fun Seeing John Cena Pay Homage With A Spear, ‘We Met Each Other At The Right Time’

John Cena isn’t able to wrestle all of his noteworthy opponents throughout his career during his retirement run, but he is doing his best to pay tribute to them.

Against Sami Zayn, Cena parked himself in the corner, went into a zone, and then connected with a spear on Zayn. The spear was in tribute to Adam Copeland (Edge in WWE), not Roman Reigns.

“I saw a clip where he did the whole set up and everything,” Cope said on The Score before jokingly calling Michael Cole a shill for saying it was in honor of Reigns.

Asked what he thought of Cena’s shout out, Cope replied, “It’s super fun. For John and I, we’re two guys that met each other at the right time. He needed a bad guy. I needed a good guy. It just clicked. You never know when something is going to click. I remember with Eddie (Guerrero) and I, the first time we wrestled, it was okay. ‘It should’ve been more than that.’ The next one was a little more, and finally by our third match we were like, ‘There it is.’ With John and I, from day one, it just clicked. Our characters were polar opposites. I knew what the assignment was, and so did he. You had two guys who were very willing to do what we had to do to get us both over. John was very well on his way, but I feel like our angle is what really put the stamp on him being the top guy, and it put the stamp on me being the main event guy. I’ll always look back on that fondly and what we were able to do and the fun we had.”

Cope is set to team with Christian Cage at AEW All Out against FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler).

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