{"id":48273,"date":"2017-09-22T01:16:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T06:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=48273"},"modified":"2017-09-22T13:08:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T18:08:58","slug":"reigns-things-cena-said-promos-little-strange-hes-not-friend-doesnt-care-cena-thinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/09\/22\/reigns-things-cena-said-promos-little-strange-hes-not-friend-doesnt-care-cena-thinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Reigns says some things Cena said in their promos were a little strange, but he&#8217;s not his friend and doesn&#8217;t care what Cena thinks about him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1022044045\" 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>Roman Reigns, in an interview with the CBS Sports podcast &#8220;In This Corner&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/wwe\/news\/in-this-corner-podcast-roman-reigns-talks-his-career-john-cena-and-his-zipper\/\">LINK<\/a>), said he and Cena have &#8220;never been close friends by any means.&#8221; It was said because one of the hosts said he assumed he and Cena were good friends.<\/p>\n<p>Reigns said although Cena has taken liberties in their promos in recent weeks, it doesn&#8217;t affect him because &#8220;if you care about somebody and they knife you, it&#8217;ll hurt your feelings and can depress you, but if you don&#8217;t really care about somebody&#8217;s opinion it won&#8217;t affect you, and that&#8217;s how it is with me and John.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reigns, who faces Cena in a main event match at No Mercy this Sunday, stopped short of any compliments for Cena. Regarding the promo exchanges getting tense, Reigns said &#8220;for someone like Cena to use that stuff, it was a little strange, but it spiced things up.&#8221; He again said it didn&#8217;t bother him. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a situation where I&#8217;m taking anything he says to heart because I don&#8217;t really care what he thinks about me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a little weird breaking down that fourth wall,&#8221; he said. He said he believes fans think &#8220;it&#8217;s cool as hell&#8221; to hear things they&#8217;ve heard about from behind the scenes make it onto the air. &#8220;It is nice to be able to change gears and get better at something. I think I&#8217;ve gotten better on the stick working with John. Either you step up or you step aside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said when he won the Superstar of the Year award a few years ago, he said he didn&#8217;t care who was on top, he was going to step up and whoever was on top when he gets there, he&#8217;s moving them aside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll be completely honest,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Me and John have always been cordial, but we&#8217;ve never been close friends by any means. That&#8217;s what makes this all special, we&#8217;re really competing against each other and I think people see that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Keller&#8217;s Analysis: In listening to the entire interview, I didn&#8217;t sense at all Reigns was working the hosts and listeners to try to build up the match. I sensed he was just being open and honest about his relationship with Cena, which apparently is far from close based on these comments. Reigns knows he can&#8217;t compete with Cena on the mic, and he seems like he&#8217;s content to &#8220;wait out the storm&#8221; since it&#8217;s clear Cena isn&#8217;t going to be stopping him from making it to the top. Cena probably sees what he&#8217;s doing as sharpening Reigns&#8217;s knife, even if it comes through as &#8220;tough love&#8221; by putting him on the spot and testing him.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-4006539018\"><div id=\"pwtor-4075106250\"><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>Roman Reigns, in an interview with the CBS Sports podcast &#8220;In This Corner&#8221; (LINK), said he and Cena have &#8220;never been close friends by any means.&#8221; It was said because one of the hosts said <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/09\/22\/reigns-things-cena-said-promos-little-strange-hes-not-friend-doesnt-care-cena-thinks\/\" title=\"Reigns says some things Cena said in their promos were a little strange, but he&#8217;s not his friend and doesn&#8217;t care what Cena thinks about him\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47782,"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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2017\/09\/CenaReigns_NoMercy2017_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48273","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=48273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48289,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48273\/revisions\/48289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}