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Former WWE fighter Heath Slater spoke to Inside The Ropes, reflecting on the great moments of his career, but also the incidents that marked the era of this company. Slater put the accent on the time in Nexus, and the live event from 2010, when John Cena reacted furiously.
Namely, Nexus was supposed to disrupt the match and fight with Cena, but the situation became very chaotic, considering the arrival of the 'babyface' fighters. Slater still has a smile on his face remembering that night, while stressing they were quite surprised with the outcome.
“Funny story on that,” Slater said, as quoted by Pwmania.
“One time, there was a live event. John Cena was working somebody. It was a cage match. We all ran down, jumped the cage, got in, let the guys in and we beat the **** out of Cena.
Next thing you know, Santino, Morrison, Kofi – all the babyfaces run out, but they have foam pool noodles. They’re running down and they’re just in the ring hitting us with them and we’re selling it. But then we see it and we start fighting back, like, what the hell?”
John Cena was angry, and a little in disbelief about everything that had happened.
“We get in the back and Cena is so mad, he picks up this red stool and overhand throws it on the ground and shatters it. And he’s like, ‘Guys, what the ****? You guys are coming in here while we’re trying to build this group up, make them killers and everything, and you’re fighting with pool noodles?’”
John Cena's anger
Slater believes that John Cena's anger was not motivated by his ego, but primarily by the desire to protect Nexus and the image of this group. Nexus was supposed to be a group that would sow fear in the bones of opponents, while producing various reactions.
However, John was frustrated because this undermined the seriousness of the group, considering that some began to treat them as funny characters.
Slater was delighted with John, believing that he wanted to protect the group.
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