WWE veteran praises John Cena amidst heel turn failure, claims he "did the best he could do" (Exclusive)

WWE star John Cena is currently finishing up his retirement tour. Former wrestling writer Vince Russo recently spoke about his heel turn and how his run was executed.

Back at Money in the Bank 2024, John Cena announced his retirement. He declared that 2025 would be his final year in active competition. Since then, the star turned heel at Elimination Chamber and attacked Cody Rhodes. However, with the Rock taking a step back from WWE, the booking floundered, and Cena lost his way with the heel turn. The creative team abandoned the idea, and John turned babyface again in the lead-up to SummerSlam.

During this week's episode of Writing with Russo, the former writer mentioned that the entire heel storyline was very bad writing. He praised John for going along with the angle and trying to make sense out of it. Russo recalled that while the story was playing out, he had declared that Cena was the only one who could salvage this ridiculous booking. The former WWE head writer claimed that nobody could execute the booking, and yet the Cenation Leader did the best he could.

"No doubt he went out there and did the best he could do. I mean, we were saying that every week. As bad as I thought it was, I was just saying, my God, the only one that could make any sense out of this is Cena. Nobody could do this. We were saying it while he was doing it."

After this week's Crown Jewel, Cena has just four more dates remaining on his calendar. His last match will happen at Saturday Night's Main Event on December 13.

It will be interesting to see how WWE booking John Cena's final few remaining appearances.

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Edited by Prityush Haldar