Former WWE writer: Kevin Eck was recently a guest on ‘the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast‘. Eck and Keller were discussing the upcoming match between John Cena and Baron Corbin and Summerslam. Eck says that the match is a test for Corbin and impressing Cena could go a long way for his career moving forward.
Eck shared the story about when Cena and Dolph Ziggler began working with one another in 2012. Cena apparently wasn’t impressed with Ziggler and gave his (honest) assessment to Vince McMahon:
“Cena will be very honest to his assessment of you. Dolph Ziggler’s the first guy that comes to mind, when they had a singles program together, in the beginning, John was all for it. John wanted to work with Dolph. And they did the house show loop together and as the heel, the heel traditionally calls the matches and John was letting Dolph call the matches and er… he wasn’t impressed.”
There have been rumors that Vince McMahon hasn’t always been fully behind Dolph as a talent. Cena’s assessment plus Vince’s feelings on Dolph led to the storyline being dropped:
“And apparently John gave his assessment to Vince of Dolph and I think that sort of played into Vince’s thoughts already about Dolph and once that program ended it ended rather abruptly because Vince told us in a booking meeting one day: ‘God, I think we’re doing a disservice to John, this is bringing John down’ and so Dolph was moved out of that program.”
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Looks like Corbin has some added pressure at Summerslam.
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