My first Substack article is live.
Orlando has a spacing crisis—and after 16 years of watching this team, I had to write about it.
Would really appreciate anyone who takes the time to read.
https://t.co/oBzdfNacVC
“So when the sun goes down I look at the day and ask myself, did I earn the sunset?”
For 23 years you raised us
For years you taught us to “Never Give Up”
For years you were an inspiration
For years you were our Superman
Yes, you did earn the sunset
Thank you John Cena 🫡
WWE Hall of Famer JBL tells the story of how John Cena became a "legendary" drinker 🍻
"Let me tell you how he got started. We're playing golf - a lot of times when we had Monday off, because we had the split shows, so we'd work a lot of times Friday, Saturday, Sunday, take Monday off, but then we had to work Tuesday which was SmackDown.
"We would have Monday off, so we started doing things on Monday. We started going golfing, we went to laser tags, we started doing all kinds of crazy stuff on Mondays. But it always involved booze, because we were young and having fun, and it's one of the things we liked having as a party favor.
"So we go golfing, and John can hit a ball a mile. He's almost world class strength Olympic lifting, John's a freak athlete, especially in strength. He can hit a golf ball a freakin' mile. And dead straight. He didn't play golf that well, because he didn't play that often, but god he could hit a golf ball.
"So we had a long drive contest, and he hit a ball and it was one of the rare times he didn't crush it, so he lost. So he had to down a beer - that was the punishment.
"So John downs the beer. Another one, downs another beer. We bet on putts, we bet on this, down a beer, down a beer, down a beer. And John looked at me at one point and said something kinda crazy and I thought, 'That's kinda strange.'
"I found out later he had never drank before. So I would have never said for John to drink a beer, but out of respect, he didn't say no.
"He did the same thing with Undertaker later with whiskey. Undertaker took him out, wanted to break him into the business and talk to him and drink some whiskey - John had never drank whiskey before.
"So go from that, to say a few years later, John's putting everybody to bed.
"This is how cool John is. One time, John told me, 'Hey man, I just wanna say thanks, I've got my bus here, got some great catering for you, some steaks and some Moonshine, all kinds of things.'
"So he takes me on a bus ride between cities, which was really cool. Me, Michael Cole and (Tony) Chimel, which, unfortunately Chimel is still alive which is a tragedy, but he is.
"We get on the bus and have all this Moonshine - by the end of it I don't remember getting off the bus. And Cena's putting me in the hotel and putting me to bed.
"Cena has one of the highest tolerances. He's like Andre (The Giant) level now. He's the guy who puts people to bed. He's the guy that oversees, would stay up, would drink.
"He doesn't get drunk. He just sits there and drinks, he puts guys to bed, he takes care of everybody, then he goes to bed. Then he's the first one up always in the morning in the gym training, setting an example.
"Cena is - I'm telling you - Andre level drinking."
(Something To Wrestle)