A top AEW star has opened up on John Cena’s secret to delivering great wrestling promos.
A wrestling veteran for nearly three decades, one-half of the AEW World Tag-Team Champions, Shelton Benjamin, is extremely popular amongst the fans for his exceptional in-ring work. While, not particularly known for his promos, Benjamin has improved a lot recently in the verbal aspect of wrestling as well.
Recently, during his appearance on the Energis podcast, Benjamin opened up on how John Cena had once shared his secret of delivering excellent promos. Cena is widely regarded as one of the best talkers in the industry and has made a name for himself by destroying his opponents on the mic. Heaping praise on Cena’s promo abilities, Benjamin revealed how Cena used to talk with himself to improve his mic skills.
“John Cena, to me, is the best promo in wrestling. I use Cena because he’s still one of the faces of pro wrestling, but he’s also from my class. He’s always been a guy, when he talks, he can win over anybody. You put him in any situation, I don’t care what it is, it can be as ridiculous or as serious as you want, he makes it work. I remember sitting back and watching him and going, ‘How does he do that?’
The one time I spoke and asked him about it, he was like, ‘I’m a nerd. I just sit at home and talk to myself in the mirror.’ This is what he said back in OVW. Hindsight is always 20/20. When he said that to me, I’m like, ‘Sit and talk to yourself in the mirror? What?’ I didn’t realize that was a breadcrumb and I didn’t pick up on it.”
The AEW champion further shared how even former WWE CEO Vince McMahon had offered him similar advice.
“Later, even Vince McMahon, he was kind of coaching me one time and he was saying, ‘You go in, talk to yourself in the mirror.’ Again, I was like, ‘Talk to yourself in the mirror?’ It was another breadcrumb. When he said it, I got it a little more, but I still wasn’t fully committed to the idea. Those are situations where I dropped the ball.”
H/t Fightful
Benjamin and Bobby Lashley recently retained their tag team titles against Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara at Double or Nothing.
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“My skills are on regress. If I continue at a full-time physical capability or involvement, I’m not going to run right, my partner’s not going to run right, and our relationship isn’t going to run right. Sorry kid, it’s time to close this chapter.”
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