John Cena On Original Plans For The Rock And Travis Scott: Who Cares? It Doesn’t Matter

The wrestling world was shocked at WWE Elimination Chamber when John Cena turned on Cody Rhodes and aligned with The Rock.

After kicking Cody in the nuts, Cena, Rock, and rapper Travis Scott laid a beatdown on Cody that would pave the road to WrestleMania. The Rock was never seen again, and Scott interfered in the WrestleMania 41 main event to help Cena, before disappearing as well.

Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Cena was asked what the original plans were for the trio.

“Who cares? It doesn’t matter. We can talk about what could have been until the cows come home. And I think that’s what’s great about the people who are left standing. Certainly me and Cody. What’s the change? this? All right, let’s go. I don’t dwell for one second on what could have been, because what could have been is Brock doesn’t leave for the NFL and there’s no John Cena,” he said.

Asked if there could have been a match with Rock, Cena replied, “Could there be anything? That’s the thing that sucks about what could have been, it’s not what it is.”

Finally, Cena was asked if a match with Rock was talked about.

He said, “I don’t care. First of all, I’m always the last to know. It doesn’t trickle down to me. If you watch Unreal, that process is genuine. ‘I talked to Rock and then the last guy I gotta call is John.’ I’m usually the last guy they call because I’m the easiest. ‘Yeah, let’s do it. No problem. I’m in.’ So I don’t sweat the [small stuff]. ‘Yo, we don’t have those guys anymore.’ Cool, what do you want to do? We would like to do this. We need you to start being more competitive. We want to put you in these matches. We were going to build to this. That’s over. I didn’t even get that. Okay, fine, great. What are we doing now? That’s what’s tough. I think it’s great to talk about. It gives good argument, gives good perspective, of like, how do they book this stuff? A lot of that stuff’s beyond control of even the people who own the sandbox. If I decide to walk, I have contractual obligations, but they I’m not gonna be there on the 13th. Like, if I decide that, you know, and they’ll figure it out. I saw Austin get fired, you know what I’m saying. I saw Brock leave. I saw, you know, Dwayne take his break, and I don’t sweat any of those guys for what they did. Austin was worn out. Brock was probably going to assault somebody in an airport, and Dwayne had such great opportunities, I don’t fault people for being like, I can’t do this right now. McAfee being burned out behind the booth. The guy has got so many opportunities, dude, you got to just focus on what you can do. I don’t sweat them for that, but shit changes. Open opportunity for Wade Barrett, and I love listening to that guy on TV. Not that I didn’t like Pat but I really like listening to Stu [Bennett]. So I don’t really sweat it, but could there have been? That’s why I don’t choose my opponents.” 

Cena would remain heel until the SmackDown before WWE SummerSlam, where he admitted he flushed his reputation down the toilet just to make shocking television.

Fans can find further comments from Cena regarding his heel turn here.