The Rock reveals the reasons behind the “Turn Heel” by John Cena | News from Mexico

After the largest wrestling weekend in the year with Wrestlemania 41 happening from Las Vegas, several personalities of the Wwe They have talked about the realization of the event and how all the roads became different things to what was thought about at the beginning, something that confirmed Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the podcast of Pat McAfee.

The professional actor and fighting With John Cena by changing his fighter profile to a villainsomething that had not been seen in more than 20 years of his career.

A call that changed everything

Johnson revealed how the execution of change began more than anything being a plan B and a commercial strategy rather than something creative or significant. The rock confessed that, approximately a month before Elimination Chamber 2025he received a call from Ari Emanuel, Executive Director of Endeavor, expressing concern for the low sale of tickets for the event.

Dwayne proposed a daring idea: introduce a narrative turn that would make it impossible to ignore the show, turning one of the largest wrestling figures into the company taking it to the “bad” side of history, In this case, John Cena.

Why not Cody Rhodes?

Planting the story where “The Rock” introduced himself to the ring promising something to Rhodes in exchange for his “soul”something that in the interview says that it meant anything.

It was a test to know how people reacted if Cody sold. He didn’t want to do heel to Cody, but give reasons to do so. I talked to Triple H, and he proposed to Cena being Heel, “he said in the interview.

Who is also part of the company’s board of directors clarified that The idea of ​​turning Cody Rhodes into ‘Heel’ was hisAlthough he pointed out that the proposal to make John Cena villain in his year of retirement was Paul Levesque, “Triple H”, Current creative chief of the WWE.

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Although in Elimination Chamber Cody resisted temptation and rejected Boss, The Rock suggested that its path might not remain so pure forever. What we lived was, in the words of Dwayne himself, a test. A way to measure how prepared the audience is to see Cody cross a line that has so far avoided.