“Wow, that was a thrill!”: WWE legend Mark Henry comes up with the fact that John Cena literally cried throughout his retirement

“Wow, that was a thrill!”: WWE legend Mark Henry comes up with the fact that John Cena literally cried throughout his retirement

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It was spontaneous for John Cena to break in tears in the ring during Mark Henry’s memorable farewell statement in June 2013. According to the 50-year-old, the former WWE Champion was in tears. When Cena was in the ring in 2013, Henry foreshadowed ending his WWE career with a passionate statement. The World’s Strongest Man did not back down, attacking the West Newbury resident in an attempt to start a rivalry between the two.

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Henry gave some fascinating details about the stage and how it took more than 9 months to prepare the speech when speaking on the Busted Open podcast:

“That retirement speech, it was over nine months of thought. Nine months of thought is why I came across so clear and so, ‘Wow, that was a thrill.'”

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John Cena didn’t know a lot of what he was going to say, according to the Hall of Famer, and there were some genuine, unplanned instances during the speech:

“John didn’t know nothing. The only thing that John knew was that at some point I was going to pull him in, that’s all he knew. When John was on the apron crying, that was real. When John came in feeling sorry for me, that I had never held the WWE title, and he tried to give it to me and I said ‘no’. ‘You take that, you earned that.’ That was the unscripted, there was no rehearsal. That was real sh*t. He was crying because he hated to see me go.”

Mark Henry believes the industry must do the same with Ronda Rousey since he was permitted to be genuine, which is why the segment went memorable.

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Mark Henry claims that John Cena cried in the ring during an unforgettable moment.
Mark Henry in an arm wrestling contest against John Cena

During his famous “retirement” statement, Henry mentioned the one title he didn’t win: the WWE Championship. At the Money in the Bank show in 2013, he had a chance to win the championship from Cena, but he lost when the 16-time world champion put him in his submission hold STF. His final encounter with the company took place at the Greatest Royal Rumble event, when he was one of the 50 men competing in the Royal Rumble match.

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