Former WWE writer Jimmy Jacobs was recently interviewed by Sports Illustrated. During the interview, Jacobs shared a segment that he wrote, which he was really proud of. That segment happened to be between the Miz and Dolph Ziggler, where Dolph put his career on the line back in 2016.
It turns out that John Cena was skeptical that the segment was going to work. Here is the story from Jacobs:
“John Cena was always really great to me. John saw that I had the passion, so he’d always check in on me. He asked me what I was doing that day in Cleveland, so I told him. He gave me a, ‘Well, we’ll see how that goes.
He was really skeptical, basically saying, ‘I don’t think that’s going to work. And I’m not knocking John Cena. John was the man. I f—— love John Cena. But with the way I had it laid out, we weren’t leaving on boos directed at the Miz or Dolph ending by saying, ‘I’m going to kick your ass!’ We were leaving on the gravity of Dolph putting his career on the line.
John said to me, ‘We’re in a yay-boo business. You’ve got to leave them with either cheering Dolph Ziggler or booing The Miz.’ So I said, ‘Well, we’re up in four minutes, so we’ll see.’”
Cena admitted that he was wrong after watching the segment, telling Jacobs it was a homerun:
“John watched from ‘Gorilla’. Afterwards, he said, ‘I was skeptical of that, but that was a homerun. I really felt that.’ I was really proud of that.”
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