The turn of John Cena’s heel during this year’s elimination chamber shocked the world of struggle after the veteran spent years as the biggest babyface in industry and was noted for his dedication to being a good guy. However, according to a recent report from the last edition of “Wrestling observer newsletter“A good part of WWE changing rooms was just as shocked as fans.
The report said that the segment was initially planned to come after Trish Stratus and Tiffany Stratton’s tag match, but later in the night, it was put as a final segment, with many producers behind the scenes which were not aware of it. “The story told to us, what was said after the show among the people in the inner circle is that the segment as indicated would have rhodes to lower the rock, but Cena would not be involved and would win the room,” said the report. “The plan was that Cena’s turn with Rock would have been saved for the end of Wrestlemania. The idea is that once the decision made, during the day, to do it in this program, then obviously, it had to continue.“”
Meltzer added a warning that could scramble the lines behind the scenes: “Keep in mind that the few best people in WWE could remove their own people and that it always went last and that the turn was always on this show, but after the show, many key people were informed that it was a late change.
Finally, the report also noted that Charlotte Flair had been “intended” to break her father, the Ric Flair World Championship record if the promotion can bring it into a place.
