A WWE veteran has a huge comparison for John Cena.
Arguably treated as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Michael Jordan is widely known all over the world for his sheer talent and success. Similarly, Cena is also regarded as one of the best wrestlers of all time. Recently, calling Cena the “Michael Jordan” of wrestling, WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle opened up during his interview with Timothy Bella of the New York Times.,
“He’s the Michael Jordan of wrestling. He committed himself to wrestling entirely — and he drowned himself in it.”
Angle was Cena’s first opponent on the main roster during his debut in 2002, and after almost 23 years, Cena is set to compete in his final WrestleMania against Cody Rhodes.
John Cena Explains WWE Retirement Tour Decision
Recently, during an interview with UFC legend Daniel Cormier for ESPN, John Cena explained how the decision to announce his retirement tour was born.
“What I was trying to do is state facts and me being honest with my record basically led me to be like ‘I got to retire.’ The reason I hadn’t had a lot of success in the WWE is because I’m a part-time participant. This needs to consume your life to be great.
Not only consume your life but like you really have to be curious, passionate, open, humble. Man, I can only imagine that if you are not fully focused, coachable, and 100% involved in fight training. So in me trying to split time and thinking that I can do both. I just did this a lot less and less and was used accordingly.
As you are ushered on the way out, you’re supposed to build all this energy and then give it away. That’s the cycle of life in sports entertainment. If you leave with the energy, you have robbed the business. So me saying this over and over again, I was like, ‘Man, I haven’t won a match since this. I’m going to be 48 next week.’ So I was like, ‘Oh man, it’s time to retire.’ That’s when I was like, ‘I’d like to do this farewell tour.’”
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