Many believe that John Cena’s victory over JBL to win the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 21 marked the moment he was named the company’s new face.
JBL revealed what he told Vince McMahon when John Cena was a young man during a Table for 3 episode with Booker T and Rey Mysterio.
“You know Cena from day one, you know, it’s a different match going from eight minutes to 30 minutes. Thirty minutes is tough. You gotta take your own role and some people can’t ever make that transition. I think he may have done longer matches with Kurt Angle first, who’s one of the greatest of all time, but if not, then I was the second guy to take Cena for 30 minutes. He was comfortable from day one.
I remember Vince asking me, he goes, ‘how is he?’ I said, ‘that kid is freaking awesome.’ I mean he’s that good. And he was from the get-go. He got into deep water and a lot of people just drowned.”
You can watch a clip from the episode below:
(H/T to Sportskeeda for the transcription)
