John Cena is the discuss of the city after he captured a seventeenth championship at WWE’s WrestleMania 41 occasion on Sunday night time, however he nonetheless took time to reward Logan Paul as one in all his favourite up and coming stars on the roster.
On the identical night time that Cena defeated Cody Rhodes in the primary occasion, Paul loved victory himself after he knocked off veteran performer A.J. Types in an thrilling match from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Whereas Paul has acquired compliments for the way in which he’s so shortly tailored to the skilled wrestling enterprise, he’s additionally confronted backlash for his fast stand up the ranks with out paying his dues like so many performers in the identical business.
None of that issues a lot to Cena, who says Paul is proving his price each single time he units foot within the ring and the social influencer turned WWE celebrity most likely doesn’t care what anyone thinks about him anyhow.
“Logan Paul’s a stud,” Cena mentioned on The Pat McAfee Show. “I texted him straight away after his match and I’m like dude, you’re revolutionary, from his entrance to holding a drone to pondering on one other degree like I’m going to swing massive and check out one thing completely different. I assumed that was dope. Then his efficiency, he’s doing stuff that I couldn’t do at peak bodily situation. So no matter for those who like him or hate him, he’s doing athletic strikes which are pretty much as good or higher as any of the ‘wrestlers’ on the market, any of the educated wrestlers.
“Right here’s what I like most about Logan Paul — he doesn’t give two shits if ya’ll like him or not. He does it as himself. This dude is a stud. There’s going to return a time when ya’ll get up to Logan Paul. He bought right here late. That shouldn’t be a penalty for him. He’s a WWE celebrity, he belongs in that ring with all people else. I do know he’s all the time going to be himself and whether or not you boo him or not, you’ll pay to see that child as a result of he’s unreal.”
As a part of his entrance on Sunday night time, Paul walked to the ring whereas holding onto an aerial drone that captured his each response earlier than releasing it to go flying throughout the whole area.
Cena was blown away by Paul’s capability to make use of his years of creativity constructing an viewers by means of social media and YouTube to then transition that into making himself related in WWE.
Add to that, Cena is aware of that Paul has taken warmth for his antics and conduct for a few years and the flexibility to roll with the punches is simply going to play into his favor as he continues his skilled wrestling profession.
“He’s been hated however he’s additionally been by means of the fireplace,” Cena mentioned. “Like ‘oh man, you’ll by no means work on this city once more.’ He’s had that cellphone name 10 or 12 instances. He doesn’t care. There’s a dude who by no means offers up. He’ll simply preserve getting up.”
