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John Cena reveals the toughest match he’s had in his career

Posted on by Bryan Rose

John Cena recounts the time he had to wrestle himself.

The record-breaking champion talked to Justin Barrasso during an interview at Fan Expo Boston on Saturday. When asked about the toughest match he’s had in his career, he brought up the Firefly Funhouse match he had with Bray Wyatt at WrestleMania 36 back in 2020.

“It’s the match I had in the Firefly Fun House,” said Cena. “The reason that opponent was tough–and I know it was against Bray Wyatt–was because that was more or less a match against me. I’ll say that was my toughest match.”

WrestleMania 36 was a show that was eventually moved to the WWE Performance Center behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and also served as the first-ever two night WrestleMania. In a bizarre cinematic-style encounter, Wyatt emerged victorious over Cena on the second night of the show.

Cena is winding down his career as he is set to have his final match in December. Earlier in the year he surpassed Ric Flair’s sixteen world title wins with a seventeenth title win over Cody Rhodes, who defeated Cena last weekend at SummerSlam to regain the title.

WrestleMania 36 notes: Boneyard match & Firefly Funhouse producers

Posted on by Josh Nason

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On Sunday’s post-WrestleMania edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer gave a few notes from WrestleMania weekend.

  • He said that Michael Hayes was in charge of the Undertaker-AJ Styles boneyard match, but that Paul Levesque also was heavily involved as well. As speculated, Jeremy Borash was involved as well. Borash and Matt Hardy were the minds behind the Final Deletion segments.
  • Meltzer said that for Sunday’s Firefly Funhouse segment between “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt and John Cena, both Bruce Prichard and Wyatt were the creative leads. However, He was told a lot of changes were made by Cena “for the better”.
  • He was unsure who helpd produce and put together the Edge-Randy Orton last man standing match.
  • Meltzer said that the finish for the Raw women’s champion Becky Lynch-Shayna Baszler match was designed to protect Baszler. Their feud isn’t over, but it doesn’t appear the two will keep it going. However, Meltzer said there is a future between the two.

For the first time ever, WrestleMania was taped at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, and presented over two nights this weekend due to the coronavirus pandemic. While tonight’s Raw has already been taped, it’s unknown how or where this Friday’s SmackDown show on Fox will be addressed.

Firefly Fun House segment set for WWE SmackDown

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Bray Wyatt is set to host his first Firefly Fun House segment since losing the Universal Championship.

An advertisement that aired during last night’s Raw announced that a new edition of Firefly Fun House will air on SmackDown this week. The segment comes after The Fiend vs. John Cena was set up for WrestleMania 36 at the end of last week’s show.

Cena cut a promo last Friday where he initially announced that he wasn’t going to be taking part in this year’s WrestleMania. He said he was betting on the future and WrestleMania spots are to be earned and not demanded. Cena also teased that he didn’t know when his next time back in WWE would be.

But when Cena got to the stage and was saluting the crowd, the lights went out and The Fiend appeared. The Fiend pointed at the WrestleMania sign, and Cena responded by tipping his hat to accept The Fiend’s challenge.

Cena tweeted yesterday: “Want to thank @WWEonFOX and more importantly @WWEUniverse for such an emotional experience on #Smackdown. I went to Boston to say ‘goodbye’ but realized that no matter where life takes me, @WWE is always home. Now, onto #WrestleMania!”

The Fiend lost the Universal Championship to Goldberg at Super ShowDown last Thursday. Goldberg will defend his title against Roman Reigns at WrestleMania.

This Friday’s SmackDown is taking place at the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York. It’s SmackDown’s go-home show for Elimination Chamber.