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WWE News: Guest host on Monday's Raw a "huge wrestling fan," John Cena drops "pro wrestling" in conference call

Jan 22, 2010 - 9:47:51 AM
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By James Caldwell, Torch assistant editor

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Monday night's episode of WWE Raw will be guest-hosted by "Psych" stars Dule Hill and James Roday (pictured in blue), who talked about being a huge "closet wrestling fan" in a USA Network conference call this week.

Roday said that he will have to pull back on his wrestling fandom when he hosts Raw on Monday so he doesn't try to out-shine the WWE wrestlers on Raw.

"I feel like I'm probably going to have to purposely look awkward, you know, so to try and help sell the fact that I'm just an actor and you know, these guys are crazy and I can't do what they do," Roday said. "If I got in the ring and those guys even like accidentally bump me too hard my boy would disintegrate, so my feeling is that it's probably safest for me to enjoy the action from, from a safe distance."

John Cena was also on the conference call to promote his guest appearance on the season premiere of "Psych." Cena dropped the dirty "professional wrestling" term when talking about Roday's wrestling knowledge.

"James, believe it or not, whether you're going to get him to admit this online on the phone is one of the biggest closet wrestling fans I have ever come across in my life," Cena said. "There are many intricate professional wrestling references in the kick off Psych episode. It was a pleasure to see and those guys paid homage to the sport and to the industry fantastic, fantastically well with their clever way of writing material."

After Cena answered several questions, Roday was asked about the new "Psych" season and his guest-hosting role on Raw. Roday, who is from San Antonio, Tex., went back to World Class Championship Wrestling and talked about WWE being a far-away territory when he grew up watching the Freebirds vs. Von Erichs.

"You know I was, I grew up in Texas and it was back, it was back when there was still regional territories before Vince had, had bought up the earth and we had World Class Championship Wrestling, which is where the Von Erichs all got their start. Kerry ultimately actually did make it to the WWF as the Texas Tornado, I believe. So they would do local shows like in San Antonio and Dallas and I would go check those out. The WWF was some sort of unachievable, unreachable East Coast dream that could only be watched on television," Roday said.

"But I have since been as an adult, now that it's out there and I might as well just fess up to it. I went to the Royal Rumble a couple years ago at the Madison Square Garden and it's just sheer, I mean it's sports entertainment, it's so pure, they pack so many people into those place and it's families and it's kids and it's moms enjoying it with their sons and dads enjoying it with their daughters. And you know, it's good, clean sort of escapist fun. And that's why I'm coming out of the closet you know, because I think that's a good thing."

Link: Read the entire press conference transcript on movieweb.com.


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