‘Act like a champion’: How Ric Flair talked John Cena into a $70K party binge

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Jonathan Coachman shared how John Cena partied for 9 days straight and paid for everyone’s food and drinks the entire time. “We finally get to the 9th night, and I asked him, ‘How much money have you spent?’ He said, ‘Well, I just checked my bank account, and I have spent $70k in total. We are still drinking at the bar with Cena, and we have Monday Night Raw the next day. All of a sudden Dean Malinko walks up and whispers something in Cena’s ear. He heard him, got up, and left for his hotel room. Malinko had just told him that he had a 60-minute Ironman match with Shawn Michaels the next day.

Coachman added that you could smell the alcohol coming out from Cena’s pores, but he still walked out there and had an incredible match. “To his credit, John went out there, and people can go back and look at the match; both men had an amazing match for 60 straight minutes.”

It definitely feels that this is the season of seeing a transformed John Cena. Throughout his career, Cena always competed as a ‘babyface’, and even after receiving a lot of flack from fans who called him things like ‘vanilla’, he continued his good guy persona until the last Elimination Chamber event, where he turned on Cody Rhodes and sided with The Rock. He then went on to create history at Wrestlemania 41, winning a record 17th world title, ironically beating the same man’s record who tricked him into partying for straight 9 days.

John Cena is currently on his farewell tour with the WWE and will be retiring as an in-ring performer at the end of the year.