John Cena has made a career out of being one of WWE’s best trash-talkers – but some of his achievements he’s never bragged about.
Paul Wight aka The Big Show worked with the 16-time WWE champion early on during his career and knows what makes him tick.
The now-AEW star is a big gamer and used to play Cena at Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 on their PSP consoles while they travelled for WWE.
During an exclusive interview with talkSPORT, Wight detailed how Cena’s ascent into Hollywood superstar would have been a guarantee given how dedicated he is to everything around him.
He said: “We would play on the bus and we would talk a lot of trash all the time and John is such a competitive, hyper-focused dude.
“He would just get in there and advance characters and build it and then crush you and never say a word. That’s John’s mentality.”
Cena recently shocked shocked gym-goers in Liverpool when he turned up to workout while filming in the UK.
The 46-year-old was busy promoting Fast X while featuring in cameos for Barbie leading fans to ponder why he was frequenting JD Gyms.
But Cena, who Wight claimed was the strongest pound-for-pound wrestler he has faced, gets a kick out of beating everyone else.
Wight told talkSPORT: “I’ve seen him go into local gyms and he’ll look at all the records on the wall – their squat record, their snatch record and quietly go over in the corner and break every record in the gym then quietly leave.
— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) July 26, 2023
“When @JohnCena picked me up, I felt like I was lying on a concrete platform!”
“Even when I was 500lbs, I knew that I was being handled safely!”@PaulWight reveals the only wrestlers that were strong enough to lift up the Big Show. pic.twitter.com/Lw9tc3wrmf
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“Even when I was 500lbs, I knew that I was being handled safely!”“He doesn’t grunt and I look at him like, ‘I know what you did there, man’. He’ll just give me a wink.
“He’s competitive with himself, he pushes himself, that’s why he’s such a cool individual.”
Wight, who at his heaviest weighed about 500Ibs, said Cena was one of the few wrestlers who could lift him up, saying it felt like he was lying a on a concrete platform when he did such was his strength.
“A lot of guys when they do stuff [like break gym records] they do it for ego, I think that’s the one thing I always appreciated about John,” he added.
“His work ethic is with himself, he didn’t try to compete with other guys or anything like that – he held himself completely accountable.
“It shows to his massive success and his character so he’s one of the absolute coolest dudes I’ve ever met in the industry.
“From day one, he really hasn’t changed other than becoming an extremely smart business man and extremely talented individual.”
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