{"id":195746,"date":"2025-04-07T13:18:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T18:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=195746"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:43:20","slug":"the-night-john-cena-flipped-out-backstage-and-threw-furniture-in-defense-of-other-wrestlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/04\/07\/the-night-john-cena-flipped-out-backstage-and-threw-furniture-in-defense-of-other-wrestlers\/","title":{"rendered":"The night John Cena flipped out backstage and threw furniture in defense of other wrestlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-730322681\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Former WWE wrestler Heath Slater says John Cena was really invested in The Nexus getting over to the point that he flipped out backstage when things didn&#8217;t go the way he thought they should in the ring back in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne time, there was a live event. John Cena was working somebody,&#8221; Heath Slater recently told <a href=\"https:\/\/itrwrestling.com\/news\/exclusive-ex-wwe-star-recalls-john-cenas-furious-backstage-meltdown-after-embarrassing-incident\/\">Inside the Ropes<\/a>. &#8220;It was a cage match. We all ran down, jumped the cage, got in, let the guys in and we beat the hit out of Cena. Next thing you know, Santino (Marrella), (John) Morrison, Kofi (Kingston), all the babyfaces run out, but they have foam pool noodles. They\u2019re running down and they\u2019re just in the ring hitting us with them and we\u2019re selling it. But then we see it and we start fighting back, what the hell?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE CONTINUED BELOW&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Check out the latest episode of &#8220;Acknowledging WWE&#8221; with Javier Machado, part of the PWTorch Dailycast line-up: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/acknowledging-wwe-machado-meyers-discuss-the-strongest-stories-heading-to-wrestlemania-cena-and-cody-promo-battle-karrion-kross-more--65343617\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to stream (or search \u201cpwtorch\u201d on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or any other iOS or Android app to subscribe free)<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=65343617&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This was in the midst of The Nexus including Wade Barrett were being built to be a threat to Cena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get in the back and Cena is so mad, he picks up this red stool and overhand throws it on the ground and shatters it,&#8221; Slater said. &#8220;And he\u2019s like, &#8216;Guys, what the f\u2014k? You guys are coming in here while we\u2019re trying to build this group up, make them killers and everything, and you\u2019re fighting with pool noodles?&#8217;\u201d He went off on them; [he was] trying to protect us, to where I just was like Cena is invested a little bit, so that\u2019s kind of cool. But yeah, that was just one time where it was like, we were supposed to be killers. Don\u2019t treat us like we\u2019re not killers. That pack of hyenas. But they came down with pool noodles just swinging on us. We were just like, what the hell are you doing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ THE FULL STORY <a href=\"https:\/\/itrwrestling.com\/news\/exclusive-ex-wwe-star-recalls-john-cenas-furious-backstage-meltdown-after-embarrassing-incident\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Cena vows to retire as champion if he wins\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nte6W7_lVmo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-417126421\"><div id=\"pwtor-2185525492\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former WWE wrestler Heath Slater says John Cena was really invested in The Nexus getting over to the point that he flipped out backstage when things didn&#8217;t go the way he thought they should in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/04\/07\/the-night-john-cena-flipped-out-backstage-and-threw-furniture-in-defense-of-other-wrestlers\/\" title=\"The night John Cena flipped out backstage and threw furniture in defense of other wrestlers\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2,4247,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlightarticles","category-prowrestlingnews","category-interview-highlights","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2017\/08\/CenaJohnGG3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195747,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195746\/revisions\/195747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}