John Cena has challenged The Undertaker to fight him at WrestleMania, and while fans are confident the match will go ahead, the veteran wrestler has not yet given an answer.
Speaking out on Good Morning Britain today (March 15), John admitted he may have been a little “harsh” in the way that he called out the WWE legend.
“I was pretty much like, ‘Get your butt off the couch and get to New Orleans because I’m picking a fight’ – but I think he hopefully listened,” he told presenters Susanna Reid and Kate Garraway.
“If not, I know he is watching this programme right now, and we need to get ourselves to WretsleMania and we need to have ourselves a match!”
Explaining why he was so determined to take on The Undertaker, who is 12 years his senior, John confessed it’s because his opponent is such an icon in the ring.
“I currently don’t have an opponent and The Undertaker has been a staple, a corner stone of WrestleMania for 25 years now,” he continued. “This is going to be or is supposed to be the first one that he misses. And the only reason he’s missing is because it’s on his own terms.
“I’ve been from arena to arena, I’ve been in front of tens of thousands of people and they all chant his name. They all want to see him. I think he’s just decided to play hooky. That’s kinda why I did what I did.”
As they say, flattery will get you everywhere, so perhaps this might persuade The Undertaker to sign up for WrestleMania…
John is currently in the UK promoting his new film Blockers.
Talking about his transition from the ring to the movies, he admitted that wrestling has a lot of transferable skills.
He said: “We’re storytellers. We tell our stories in front of a massive live audience so it has to be grand and broad and turned way up. Our volume is always at 10.
“When you do a movie, the lens is so close, the subtlety is what pays everything off. So you have to turn the volume knob a little bit.”
