John Cena is more than just a top-tier Superstar in the WWE. The 39-year-old is the company’s standard bearer, ready at a moment’s notice to be the consummate ambassador to any end of the map the WWE travels.
Vince McMahon’s golden boy is the embodiment of the PG Era in the WWE, working as hard in philanthropy as he does in the gym and the ring. The 15-time WWE Champion’s efforts for charity are literally unparalleled, with over 500 wishes granted for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Most would beam at such a repertoire, but the cape-and-undies act is the adult WWE fans’ favorite whipping boy. The older cross-section of the WWE Universe defies physics with the blur at which they fire their ire at the face that runs the place.
But even the most prejudiced would feel a jab of warmth at hearing what Cena said in an interview with Rolling Stone recently. For someone who’s portrayed to live and breath PG, Cena pulled the rug out from under everyone when he stated his taste in wrestling shows:
“I’m a 38-year-old man. I’d much rather it be a program geared toward me, whether that’s TV-14 or sometimes even more graphic than that, which is what I like. For one thing, profanity brought fire out of people with personalities that backed the language.
“It’s very difficult to say, ‘Oh, you’re being poopy,’ especially when they’re meant to be fighting words. And now, if someone starts to bleed, the referee intervenes to stop the bleeding. But before, you’d just let it fly.
“Blood is one of the things that made fights cool. Like, you knew it had gotten serious. I understand why we don’t do it anymore. Vince has been a coach to me, a father figure, a boss and a friend, and his goal and my goal are the same: to make the company be as big as it can be. But, yeah, the blood is one thing I miss.”
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