With this being the final year of John Cena’s professional wrestling career, many stars are looking to get the opportunity to face the 16-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion at least once before he retires. Recently, former WWE World Heavyweight Champion Raj Dhesi [Jinder Mahal] shared his experience on working with Cena.
While speaking to MuscleMan Malcolm on his Muscle Memory series, Raj Dhesi reflected on the time he put his World Title on the line against John Cena.
“Yeah! It was so much fun. And with John, he doesn’t call a whole lot before. He just listens to the crowd and calls it in the ring. Obviously, the finish being is Baron Corbin cash-in etc. We all knew that was going to happen.”
Raj Dhesi shared the story of how he and John Cena did the one spot that Vince McMahon hates and still got the Thumbs up from him
During the interview, Dhesi revealed that the then-WWE Chairman Vince McMahon was not a fan of the ‘Test of Strength’ spot. But during his match with Cena, he shared that the Leader of the Cenation called for the Test of Strength. Despite this being one of McMahon’s hated spots, he still gave a thumbs-up to the two stars after their match.
“But um… I’ll tell you a funny story. I’ve always heard from producers etc. like, ‘ Never do a test of strength.’ Vince [McMahon] hates it. He hates test of strength, he thinks it’s stupid. So, I’m in the match and I said right in the beginning and Cena calls test of strength. And usually, when you do the test of strength you kick him in the gut or whatever. So, I lock up with Cena. He doesn’t call anything and we just go into the test of strength. And he goes all the way down and then comes up.
“And then I think finally said, ‘Kick me.’ I think. But to do a test of strength… If you noticed… Like in the last decade how many test of strengths have you seen in WWE? Unless it’s like maybe Lashley versus Braun Strowman like a type, maybe. But just in a normal match there is no test of strength. So, when we came back, obviously, no one said anything. We got the thumbs up from Vince and yeah… So… Yeah, he mostly called it on the fly. It was so much fun. And he’s retiring soon. So, I’m glad I got to work him. We had some few more matches on Live Events. Some tag matches, some dark matches. So, always a huge honor to be in there with John Cena,” he said.
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